Suzue Miuchi

Suzue Miuchi
美内 すずえ
Born (1951-02-20) February 20, 1951 (age 73)
Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan
NationalityJapanese
Area(s)Writer, Penciller, Inker
Notable works
Glass Mask
Awards1982 Kodansha Manga Award
1995 Japan Cartoonists Association Award

Suzue Miuchi (美内 すずえ, Miuchi Suzue, born February 20, 1951) is a Japanese manga artist and author of long-running shōjo manga Glass Mask.

Life

She was born in Nishinomiya, Japan and grew up in Osaka. She lived nearby a rental bookstore (kashi-hon) in her childhood and started drawing manga herself, when she had too many unpaid bills at a rental bookstore and her mother forbid her to continue reading manga. Miuchi made her professional debut as a manga artist in 1967, aged only 16, with the manga Yama no Tsuki to Kodanuki in the shōjo magazine Margaret. Her early debut as a highschool-aged manga artist inspired Yukari Ichijo to start a professional career as a manga artist at the time. She became famous for publishing short stories in the early 1970s, among them also horror manga.[1] Her 1975 short story Shiroi Kagebōshi is considered a classic of shōjo horror manga.[2]

Her biggest success came in 1976, when she began the long-running and ongoing series Glass Mask (Glass no Kamen) about a girl becoming a famous theater actress. The manga has been adapated into a stage play, a live-action TV series and an anime series.[1]

She won the Kodansha Manga Award (1982) for Youkihi-den[3] and the Japan Cartoonists Association Award (1995) for Glass Mask.

Works

Series

  • Moeru Niji (燃える虹), 1970
  • 13-gatsu no Higeki (13月の悲劇), 1971
  • Amaranth no Joō (アマランスの女王), 1972
  • Harukanaru Kaze to Hikari (はるかなる風と光), 1973–1974
  • Kujaku-iro no Kanaria (孔雀色のカナリア), 1973–1974
  • Shira-yuri no Kishi (白ゆりの騎士), 1974–1975
  • Glass Mask (ガラスの仮面, Garasu no Kamen), since 1976, serialized in Hana to Yume and Bessatsu Hana to Yume
  • Saint Alice Teikoku (聖アリス帝国, Sei-Arisu Teikoku), 1976–1978
  • Bara Monogatari (バラ物語), 1979
  • Yōkihi-den (妖鬼妃伝), 1981
  • Dynamite Milk Pie (ダイナマイト・みるく・パイ, Dainamaito Miruku Pai), 1982
  • Amaterasu (アマテラス), 1986–1995

One-shots

  • Yama no Tsuki to Kodanuki to (山の月とこだぬきと), 1967
  • Shiroi Kagebōshi (白い影法師), 1975, published in Mimi
  • Dynamite Milkpie
  • Futari no Melody
  • Kaerazaru Hyuuga
  • Majou Medea
  • Niji no Ikusa
  • Oujo Alexandra
  • Pollyana's Knight
  • Shiroi Kageboshi

References

  1. ^ a b International perspectives on shojo and shojo manga : the influence of girl culture. Masami Toku. New York. 2015. pp. 190–196. ISBN 978-1-317-61075-5. OCLC 910847745.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. ^ Dollase, Hiromi Tsuchiya (2010). ""Shōjo" Spirits in Horror Manga". U.S.-Japan Women's Journal (38): 67. ISSN 2330-5037. JSTOR 42772010.
  3. ^ Joel Hahn. "Kodansha Manga Awards". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on 2007-08-16. Retrieved 2007-08-21.


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