Jirou Taniguchi

His stories deal with universal themes as the beauty of nature devotion to family or return to childhood. He began work as assistant of the late mangaka 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 hardboiled 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 Tanigushi and Natsuo Sekigawa produced the trilogy Bocchan No Jidai. In the 1990s he came up with several albums among which Aruku Hito Chichi no Koyomi The Almanac of My Father and Keyaki no Ki. In 2001 he created the Icare Icaro series on texts by Mbius. Among other prizes for his work he won the Osamu Tezuka Culture Award 1998 for the trilogy Bocchan No Jidai the Shogakukan prize for Inu wo Kau and in 2003 the AlphArt of the best scenario at the Angoulme International Comics Festival France for Harukana MachiE.