Fumiko Okada
Fumiko Okada ( Japanese 岡田 史 子 , Okada Fumiko ; born July 23, 1949 in Shizunai (today: Shinhidaka ), Hokkaidō , Japan as Fumiko Takada ( 高田 富 美 子 ); † April 3, 2005 ) was a Japanese manga artist .
She published her first comic in 1967 as a high school student with Taiyō to Gaikotsu no yō na Shōnen ( 太陽 と 骸骨 の よ う な 少年 ) in COM , an alternative manga magazine published by Osamu Tezukas . In 1968 she won the young talent award of the same magazine with the short story Garasu-dama ( ガ ラ ス 玉 ). By 1970 she created several other short comics for COM and its sister magazine Funny ( フ ァ ニ ー , Fanī ). Then she retired to work briefly on anime .
When Asahi Sonorama published two anthologies of her short stories for COM in 1976 and 1978 - Garasu-dama and Hon no sukoshi no mizu ( ほ ん の す こ し の 水 ) - interest in the illustrator increased. In 1978 she brought out a comic again with Dance Party ( ダ ン ス ・ パ ー テ ィ , Dansu Pāti ) in a special issue of Shōjo Comic magazine. By 1979 more followed for the magazine Manga Shōnen and Asahi Sonorama published the third anthology Dance Party .
The next and last publication should not take place until 1990 with Erimu ( エ リ ム ). Several new editions of her works were published in the 1990s and 2000s. Okada died of heart failure in 2005.
Web links
- Article on the occasion of the 2003 reprint (Japanese)
- List of works ( Memento from August 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Japanese)
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| SURNAME | Okada, Fumiko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 岡田 史 子 (Japanese); Takada Fumiko (birth name); 高田 富 美 子 (Japanese, maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese manga artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shizunai , Hokkaidō, Japan |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 2005 |