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Horror manga pioneer Kazuo Umezu dead at 88

The author of The Drifting Classroom and Makoto-chan

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Nov 13, 2024
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A panel from Kazuo Umezu's comic of The Exorcist

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…

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