Katsuhiro Otomo
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Katsuhiro Otomo is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter, animator, and film director. He first rose to prominence as a pioneer founder of the New Wave in the 1970s. He is best known as the creator of
Tomer Hanuka
…Italian, Spanish and German. Frédéric Potet from Le Monde labeled it "A combination of Bob Morane [a popular French adventure hero], David Lynch, and Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira)". Eric Libiot from L'express compared the coloring in the book (By Tomer Hanuka) to that of Hergé, creator of Tintin. Lysiane Ganousse from…
Otomo in 2016
Otomo posing on a replica of a futuristic motorcycle seen in his series Akira (2016)
France's 2016 Angoulême International Comics Festival hosted an exhibition of art created in tribute to Otomo.