Jiro Taniguchi

Jirō Taniguchi

Jirō Taniguchi at Lucca Comics and Games in 2011
Born August 14, 1947
Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture
Nationality Japanese
Occupation Manga artist
Known for Bocchan No Jidai
Icare
Haruka na Machi e

Jiro Taniguchi (谷口ジロー Taniguchi Jirō, born 14 August 1947 in Tottori Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese manga writer/artist.

Career

Taniguchi began his career as an assistant of manga artist Kyota Ishikawa. He made his manga debut in 1970 with Kareta Heya (A Desiccated Summer), published in the magazine Young Comic.

From 1976 to 1979, he created several hard-boiled comics with the scenarist Natsuo Sekigawa, such as City Without Defense, The Wind of the West is White and Lindo 3. From 1984 to 1991, Taniguchi and Natsuo Sekigawa produced the trilogy Bocchan No Jidai. In the 1990s, he came up with several albums, among which Aruku Hito (歩くひと), Chichi no koyomi (The Almanac of My Father), and Keyaki no ki .

In 1992-1993 he collaborated with Garon Tsuchiya for the manga Blue Fighter (青の戦士 Ao no Senshi), Knuckle Wars (ナックル・ウォーズ Nakkuru) and Live! Odyssey (LIVE! オデッセイ).

He Illustrated Baku Yumemakura’s works, Garouden from 1989-1990 and Kamigami no itadaki from 2000-2003. Kamigami no itadaki” received awards at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2002 and 2005.

In 2001, he created the Icare (Icaro) series on texts by Mœbius. Jirô Taniguchi gained several prizes for his work. Among others, the Osamu Tezuka Culture Award (1997) for the trilogy Bocchan No Jidai, the Shogakukan prize with Inu wo Kau, and in 2003, the Alph'Art of the best scenario at the Angoulême International Comics Festival (France) for A Distant Neighborhood. His work has been translated in many languages.

Bibliography

source[1]

1980s and before

1990s

2000s

References

  1. ↑ "Bibliographie de Jirô Taniguchi / 谷口ジロー". Retrieved 2008-08-02.

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