Susumu Katsumata

Award-winning Gekiga-era artist, who worked alongside Tatsumi Yoshihiro and Tsuge Yoshiharu in the alternative manga magazine Garo.

Won the 35th Japanese Cartoonists Association Award Grand prize for Akai Yuki.

He died in 2007 due to melanoma, and is buried Ota, Tokyo.


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Susumu Katsumata

Award-winning Gekiga-era artist, who worked alongside Tatsumi Yoshihiro and Tsuge Yoshiharu in the alternative manga magazine Garo.

Won the 35th Japanese Cartoonists Association Award Grand prize for Akai Yuki.

He died in 2007 due to melanoma, and is buried Ota, Tokyo.