Jiro Taniguchi Fanclub

Jiro Taniguchi (谷口ジロー), born 14 August 1947 in Tottori Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese manga writer/artist. He started his career as an assistant of manga artist Kyota Ishikawa. He made his manga debut in 1970 and published several hard-boiled genre comics in the 70s and 80s, who are considered important gekiga works. In the 1990s he came up with several albums that focussed on Slife of Life themes, which earned him a high reputation. During his entire career he always collaborated with famous authors and comic artists; for example the Icaro series on texts by French comic legend Mœbius or the cycle Kamigami no Itadaki based on Baku Yumemakura's works. Jirô Taniguchi gained several prizes for his work. Among others, the Osamu Tezuka Culture Award (1998) for the trilogy Bocchan No Jidai, the Shogakukan prize with Inu wo Kau, and in 2003, the Alph'Art of the best scenario at the Angoulême International Comics Festival (France) for Harukana Machi-E. Kamigami no Itadaki received awards at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2002 and 2005. His work has been translated in many languages and he is known by many intellectuals across the world as one of the best contemporary mangaka.