Horror manga pioneer Kazuo Umezu dead at 88
The author of The Drifting Classroom and Makoto-chan
Kazuo Umezu, master of horror comics and a manga pioneer whose careers spanned nearly seventy years, is dead at 88. Asahi Shimbun reports that the author of The Drifting Classroom and Makoto-chan first made his debut in 1955 illustrating rental books.
After completing "Fourteen" in 1995, he suspended his wo…