| Name: 古屋兎丸 Birth Date: January 25, 1968 Zodiac sign: Aquarius Official site: http://usamarus2001.blog100.fc2.com/ Usamaru Furuya was born January 25, 1968. His path to manga was unusual. He studied sculpture and abstract three-dimensional figures in art school, and afterwards even became involved with butoh dance. For a while he worked as a high school art teacher. He made his debut as a manga artist with the ground-breaking four-panel "gag" strip Palepoli, which was serialized in the legendary avant-garde comics magazine Garo in 1994. Since then he has gone on to publish in major weekly magazines in Japan, such as Young Sunday (where Short Cuts was first serialized). In English, his work has appeared in PULP: The Manga Magazine and Secret Comics Japan. A message to American readers from Usamaru Furuya: "I've heard that 80% of America is made up of anthropocentric and passionate Christians who deny the theory of evolution. Could this be a misconception on my part? I think it probably is. I think there are a great many misconceptions between Americans and Japanese. If only we could overcome these through manga." His self portrait is of a crabby (?) rabbit, which is a gag on the first kanji of his given name "兎", which means "rabbit". Manga Palepoli (パレポリ) Short Cuts (ショートカッツ) Garden Wsamarus 2001 Marie no Kanaderu Ongaku (Marieの奏でる音楽) Suicide Circle (自殺サークル) Donki Kōrin (鈍器降臨) π (パイ) Happiness (ハピネス) Lychee☆Hikari Club (ライチ☆光クラブ) (written by: Norimizu Ameya) Shōnen Shōjo Hyōryōki (少年少女漂流記) Kanojo wo Mamoru 51 no Hōhō (彼女を守る51の方法) Innosen Shōnen Jūjigun (インノサン少年十字軍) Genkaku Picasso (幻覚ピカソ) Ningen Shikkaku (人間失格) (adaptation of No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai) Bokura no☆Hikari Club (ぼくらの☆ひかりクラブ) Illustrations Flowers Films/Dramas ZOO (Screen Play, Storyboards, Character Designs) Noriko's Dinner Table (紀子の食卓?) Ichiban Kirei na Mizu (いちばんきれいな水?) Short Cuts (ショートカッツ?) Love Exposure (愛のむきだし?) |
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