Yūko Tsuno
Yūko Tsuno ( Japanese 津 野 裕子 , Tsuno Yūko ; * 1966 in Takaoka , Toyama Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist . Her comics, all of which are very short, self-contained works of between five and 20 pages in length, are surreal and dramatic.
Tsuno published her first work in 1986 in the May issue of the avant-garde manga magazine Garo with the six-page short story Reizōko ( 冷 蔵 庫 ). This comic is about a person whose dead sister is locked in a refrigerator.
Shortly after her first work came out, she received offers from mainstream magazines, but turned them down and remained loyal to the underground comics sector. Tsuno creates mangas with an attitude of drawing them for herself and not for an audience. By the time Garo was hired in 2002, she had published around 70 other short stories. Seirindō , the publisher of Garo , published some of them in three edited volumes: Delicious ( デ リ シ ャ ス , Derishasu , 1988), Amemiya Seppyō ( 雨 宮 雪氷 , 1994) and Rinpun Kusuri ( 鱗 粉 薬 , 2000).
In 2000, her short story Swing Shell ( ス イ ン グ シ ェ ル , Suingu Sheru ) appeared in the English-language anthology Secret Comics Japan , which was supposed to provide an overview of the alternative comics scene.
After the end of Garo , no further publications followed for a few years. In 2008 a manga was finally created for AX magazine .
Tsuno lives in Fukuyama and works in a graphic design studio .
Web links
- List of all her publications up to 2002 (Japanese)
- Entry at lambiek.net (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the Hatena Dictionary (Japanese)
- ↑ Hyoe Narita (ed.), Chikao Shiratori (ed.): Secret Comics Japan. Underground Comics Now . Viz Media, 2000, ISBN 1569313725 , p. 58. (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tsuno, Yūko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 津 野 裕子 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese manga artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Takaoka , Toyama Prefecture, Japan |