Ignacio Noé
Great Argentinean artist known by very colorful high quality comics. The scripts are also always good too. Responsible for gems like Ship of Fools, Piano Tuner, Doctor I’m Too Big, The Miracle and many others. He did plenty of mainstream comic books as well.
Rogério Nunes
Rogério Nunes is a Brazilian comic artist who came to Europe because of his love affair with a Belgian girl. While living in Leuven and Gent, he became the apprentice of comic artist Ferry. He became especially known for his work on the popular humorous-erotic ‘Rooie Oortjes’ series. He also contributed to the collection ‘Fin de Semaine’.
Keiko Nishi
Keiko Nishi grew up in an area where teaching is one of the most respected careers. Manga was not allowed in the Nishi household, and Keiko was expected to become a teacher, like her father. During her study, a friend asks her to draw for the notorious magazine June, which specialized in homo-erotic stories. It was the first manga Nishi drew and the correspondence school’s “headmistress”, shoujo manga artist Keiko Takemiyashojo praised her work. In 1988, Keiko Nishi made her professional debut in the magazine Petit Flower.
After graduating, Keiko Nishi started teaching, but she quit after six months. Then she started drawing manga full-time, but didn’t enjoy it. For Nishi, drawing manga was an outlet for frustration and stress. Ironically, her anthologies ‘Gotta Become an Angel’, ‘I Wish I Was a Bird’, ‘When Water Turns to Ice’, ‘September’, ‘Another Ocean’, ‘Love Song’, ‘The Poor Princess’, and ‘Elevator Girl’ are considered her most powerful work. It was not until 1993 that Nishi started to enjoy drawing manga. She drew ‘The Beauty in the Hagiwara Shop in District Three’ and ‘The Rosemary Hotel: Vacancies Available’. Nishi has carved a niche for herself beyond standard genres, and she is sure to continue drawing for many years.
Kiriko Nananan
Kiriko Nananan made her comic debut in 1993 in Japanese magazine Garo with ‘Hole’. Her work is listed among the ‘typically female manga’, a genre that has developed in Japan since Murasaki Yamada, in the 1970s. It realistically and poetically depicted the casual, everyday life of women. During the eighties and nineties, more female manga artists started making comics about being women and sex from a female perspective. Nananan has rightly earned her fame in this field, creating personal and sensitive stories. In 1996, she published the short story collection ‘Water’. Two of the stories in this book have been printed in ‘Secret Comics Japan’, a collection of modern Japanese underground comics.
Gô Nagai
Gô Nagai is one of the most important innovators of the manga genre. He introduced eroticism in children’s comics (‘Harenchi Gakuen’) and he developed the concept of giant robots being able to transform (‘Mazinger’, ‘Goldorak’), an idea that has been used in many television series afterwards. He industrialized his production by creating his Gô Nagai’s Dynamic Productions, employing more than 30 assistants.
His series ‘Harenchi Gakuen’ appeared from 1968 to 1972 in Shônen Jump. This series, about a school, broke various taboos, using subjects as voyeurism and sex. The series ended dramatically: during a massacre all the characters died. After ‘Harenchi Gakuen’ Nagai started the ‘Mazinger Z’ series, later renamed to ‘Great Mazinger’ and ‘God Mazinger’. At the same time, Nagai started the series ‘Devilman’, about a hero fighting hordes of demons.
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