Originally known as Wu, 1922 was born in tottori prefecture, Japan. A new generation of comic fans may not know him very well, but his stories and characters have really influenced several generations of cartoonists. Shigeru Mizuki is the first Japanese ghost cartoonist, the originator of mysterious series stories, one of the oldest cartoonists, and the original author of a generation of comic classic Kitaro.
In Shigeru Mizuki's cartoon career of nearly 50 years, although his works are few, they cover a wide range. Most of his works are based on monster stories, and there are also many themes such as war, science fiction and humor, nicknamed Dr. Monster.
Shigeru Mizuki died of multiple organ dysfunction in a hospital in Tokyo at 7: 00 am on October 30th, 20 15+ 18/kloc-0, at the age of 93.
Chinese name: Shigeru Mizuki.
Mbth:しげる Shui Mu.
Nationality: Japan
Place of Birth: Port City, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
Date of birth: 1922
Date of death: 2015165438+1October 30th.
Occupation: cartoonist
Main achievements: the first person in Japanese ghost comics.
Representative works: Rocket Man and Kitaro.
Character experience
childhood
Shigeru Mizuki was born in a coastal port city in Tottori Prefecture. At that time, he was a silent baby and didn't speak until he was 4 years old. The first sentence he said was "cat shit".
Shigeru Mizuki was a man with a good appetite when he was a child, so he was called "ズィダ" (ズィダ is a Hong Kong dialect, which means a guy who can eat anything). He is often called "ゲゲ" by his playmates nearby.
Shigeru Mizuki's interest in monsters came from an old woman named "Ghost Mother-in-law" nearby when he was a child. Ghost mother-in-law used to be a maid of Shigeru Mizuki family when she was young. When her husband and adopted son died in her old age, she often came to take care of Shigeru Mizuki. Ghost mother-in-law often tells Shigeru Mizuki about the legend of monsters in the country and the hell world after death, which makes Shigeru Mizuki particularly curious about "death" when she was a child, so she once made the absurd thing of putting her brother into the water to see what would happen after his death (finally stopped by the passing adults). Ghost mother-in-law finally died of tuberculosis in the fifth grade of Shigeru Mizuki primary school.
In primary school, Shigeru Mizuki often spent his time having fun and competing with his peers to be the king of his children, so his study was not ideal. At that time, he privately wrote his own works, such as Tian Kun Children's Painting Collection and Mao Tie Painting Collection, under the pseudonym of Mao Tie. When I was in the senior grade of primary school, at the suggestion of my tutor, Mr. Xiong, I also took my oil paintings to the citizen museum to hold a personal exhibition. Afterwards, the local newspaper published a special news, praising Shigeru Mizuki's painting talent.
teenagers
As a teenager, Shigeru Mizuki showed outstanding talent in painting. At the age of thirteen, he opened his first solo exhibition under the arrangement of his teacher. During World War II, after losing his left hand in Indonesia and Singapore, his persistence in painting did not weaken, on the contrary, he became more determined. The wedge machine that really made him make up his mind to take painting as a career was a 50-year relocation. At that time, 28-year-old Shigeru Mizuki moved into an apartment called "Shui Mu Zhuang" in Kobe Shui Mu Hall. An artist in the apartment, "Zhi Zhi Drama" (a form of telling stories based on pictures that was popular in Japan in 1950s), introduced him to this kind of painting form close to comics for the first time. A year later, his monster works were put on the stage by the painting and drama club, so he worked as a painter for 7 years until 57 years.
puberty
Shigeru Mizuki, who graduated from primary school, was unable to enter higher education smoothly because of her poor grades, and transferred to a two-year senior primary school. After graduating from higher education, I went to work in a printing factory and a printmaking agency in Osaka, but I didn't stay long. After that, I studied in an "elite academy of fine arts" in Osaka with only one tutor (also a principal and professor). Later, I tried "Osaka Prefectural Horticultural School" and failed. (At that time, 565,438+0 people took the exam out of the 50 places in the Horticultural School, and only Shigeru Mizuki was left out. )
Because he didn't get into school smoothly, Shigeru Mizuki worked part-time in Panasonic or a newspaper. /kloc-at the age of 0/8, he was admitted to the Mining Department of Japan Mining School by working part-time in a newspaper, but he dropped out of school after half a year because of dissatisfaction. At that time, during World War II, I was very afraid that I would die after being drafted into the battlefield. So, I began to read some books about the meaning and philosophy of life. Among them, Shigeru Mizuki's special preference is JohannPeterEckermann (Gespr? Goethe in chemistry.
breeding season
1943, Shigeru Mizuki, 2 1 year-old, received a call-up order to join Tottori Company as a soldier. During the period, he served as a trumpet signalman in the army, but because he has been playing badly, he asked the superior officers to adjust the army. When the subsequent officer asked him if he wanted to be transferred to the north or the south; Shigeru Mizuki chose the south and was sent to the port of Rabbot in New Britain. (But the reason why Shigeru Mizuki chose the South at that time was purely "warmer")
A few days after arriving in rabaul, Shigeru Mizuki contracted local malaria and was lying in a hospital bed. A few days after being infected with malaria, Shigeru Mizuki was attacked by an enemy plane in bed and hit his left arm. At that time, the military doctor originally wanted to transfuse blood for him in the rescue, but Shigeru Mizuki forgot his blood type at this moment, which led to the injury being controlled only by stopping bleeding. Later, his left arm deteriorated to a considerable extent and had to be removed, so Shigeru Mizuki lost his left arm.
During his recuperation after losing his left arm, Shigeru Mizuki began to have contacts with local resident Tolai. 1945 After World War II, he returned to China in the labor port.
Return to China after the war.
After returning to China, Shigeru Mizuki worked as a fishmonger and a tricycle driver. Later, I stayed in a room in Kobe on my way home from Tokyo. I was persuaded by the owner of the room and bought the room with a down payment of 200,000 yen. Later, Shigeru Mizuki named the house "Shui Mu Zhuang" after the place name of "Shui Mu Hall".
Playwright period
At that time, in Zhuang's apartment, a tenant named Kubota worked as a comic writer. He explained the production method of comics and introduced his meeting with Xiong, the president of comic company. When Xiong He met, he used to call him Mr., not Wu, which made both comic playwrights and cartoonists use pseudonyms like this, not Wu.
195 1 year, Shigeru Mizuki began to become a comic playwright. During this period, Shigeru Mizuki's predecessor was his personal representative works, such as Snake Man, Empty-handed Kitaro, ガロ, and A River Boy in Sanping.
The cartoonist period
A few years later, due to the slow rise of television among the people, the comic industry began to decline, and Shigeru Mizuki went to Tokyo to start working as a cartoonist. During the cartoonist's loan period, Shigeru Mizuki's works tend to be sci-fi or weird story style. As a virgin, "Rocket Man" (ロケットマン) was published in 1958 Moon Rabbit Study Room. During this period, the strange storylines included "Strange Catwoman" and "Strange Catwoman".
1960 After The Story of the Young Warrior sold well, Moon Rabbit Study asked Shigeru Mizuki to create a strange and shocking monthly magazine "Yao Qi _", and published the first loan work "You _ Yi" in the Kitaro series of Cemetery in the first issue. After that, Yao Qi didn't respond enthusiastically to the market. When it was about to be halved, it only received an encouraging letter from readers, and then it was able to continue serializing the Kitaro series of Yao Qi's Graveyard. Later, due to money disputes, Shigeru Mizuki turned to Sanyo to publish Kitaro's works. A few years later, Sanyo went out of business, and Shigeru Mizuki made up with Moon Rabbit's study and returned to his previous study, and published the comic series "Crane Tong San Ping" at 196 1.
1963, Shigeru Mizuki published another masterpiece, The Demon King (_ Demon くん). At that time, it was originally planned to release five episodes, but it was not until three episodes were released.
1965, "Qinglintang" produced the comic magazine "Monthly Comics". At that time, Shigeru Mizuki was hired to publish his works on it at a price of 500 yen per page, which gave him a chance to get better pay than borrowing a comic book. In the following year, he published "TV Jun" in Other Books, Teenagers (Weekly Teenagers Magazine). He changed from a cartoonist on loan to a comic weekly serial writer, which made Shigeru Mizuki start slowly. テレビくんん also won Shigeru Mizuki the first honor in his cartoon career ── the 6th Talk Club Children's Cartoon Award.
On August 1 day of the same year, Kitaro's first work "Hand" in Comic Weekly was published in Youth magazine. The following year, from 65438 to 0966, the works of "He Tong San Ping" and "Devil Jun" in the comic period were reprinted and published one after another, and the album "Devil Jun" written by real people began to be broadcast on TV on June 10.
1968, the animation album was renamed from "Kitaro in the graveyard" to "Kitaro in the graveyard", which started the monster craze at that time. Since then, Shigeru Mizuki's most representative comic book "Kitaro" has been reprinted for many times. By 2007, Kitaro has been adapted into an animated photo album for five times, and Kitaro, a comic book loan, was animated for the first time in 2008, and there are other live-action movies.
In his later creative career, he won the 13th Comic Book Award from Talk Club in 1989 for "The History of Showa" and won the honor of "Yan Zi Commendation" in 199 1 year.
Character works
1957, 32-year-old Shigeru Mizuki officially published his comic book debut "Rocket Man". Since the second half of 1950s, Shigeru Mizuki has been active in the cartoon industry. He published many comic books under the pseudonyms of Ichiro Dongzhen, Wu Yongyao and Wu. At that time, Japanese comics had not yet developed into the current serial system. Because of the prevalence of renting books at that time, comic books were generally distributed directly in the form of singles, and even the rare serial chronicles were mostly monthly short stories. Therefore, Shigeru Mizuki's preparation for the draft was quite amazing. A book with 128 pages was nearly thirty thousand yen at that time (equivalent to more than one million now).
1959, the first story of Kitaro series, Kitaro in the Graveyard, was officially published in the rented comic, Legend of the Devil, and the series became an independent book. After the heyday of juvenile comic monthly, weekly magazines such as Youth Sunday (primary school) and Youth Magazine (talk club) appeared one after another, while Shigeru Mizuki continued to run his own two single periodicals, Night Talk in Kitaro and Youth War. After the 1960s, color movies became popular, and comic book shops and comic book publishing houses were gradually eliminated, so he switched to a small publishing house, and it was not until 1965 that he officially joined one of the masters in the comic book industry at that time, the Random Talk Society. "TV Jun" was first published in Other Youth Magazine and won Toastmasters annual cartoon award. That is, this year, the "Kitaro" series serialized in the Weekly Youth Magazine began to spread all over the streets. After becoming popular, Shigeru Mizuki set up a studio because of the huge increase in the manuscript fee, and Tuoba Yichun (later famous for his "irregular thinking" comics) and Ryoichi Ikegami became his assistants one after another.
1968, Kitaro series was first animated (TV version), which immediately caused quite a sensation in Kitaro. Shigeru Mizuki became one of the most popular cartoonists at that time. At the peak, there are even more than six cartoons serialized at the same time! Among them are Kitaro (Weekly Youth Magazine, Heart-to-Heart Club), Sanhe (Weekly Youth Sunday, Primary School), Devil-Millennium Kingdom (Weekly Youth Jump, Ying Ji Club) and so on! Interestingly, these works are serialized in three original journals at the same time.
Representing comic works
Kitaro Devil Jun and Tong Sanping
Borrowed comics
ロケットマン (1957) _のぃ (1958) Monster ラバン (654;)
Autobiographical works
Luo Diwang (1974) * Chinese translation of Taiwan Province: Ghost Mother-in-law and the King of Children (Liu Yuan Press, 2000). ISBN:978-957-32-6473-6ほんまにォレはァホやろか( 1363； )
The war experience worked.
Yuan Yu! (トペトロとの 50 Years) (2002)
Monster-related works
しげるの Monster Memorabilia (1981)しげるWorld Monster Memorabilia (1985)* Chinese translation of Taiwan Province Province: World Monster Memorabilia (.
Works of historical figures
Ikeda _ Department (1986) Star をつかみそこねる Male (1989) Maonan South Xiongnan Career (/kloc-)
family status
At the age of 39, Shigeru Mizuki was single when she was a cartoonist. When her parents were worried, she was asked to have a blind date with the daughter of the Iizuka family who runs the wine shop. A few days after the blind date, she got married immediately and gave birth to two daughters, Wu Liang Shangzi and Wu Liang Yuezi.
At that time, his impression of the first blind date was that "the woman's face is long and the woman's father's face is longer."
Commemorative figures
In 1989, Shigeru Mizuki's hometown port city began to plan to integrate the monster culture and characters described by Shigeru Mizuki into the urban area and become a sightseeing cultural area. 1993, "Maoshui Road" (しげるロド Shui Mu) was officially unveiled. At first, 23 bronze statues of monsters were put on the street, but now it has increased to more than 100. Among them, the subway from Jinggang City to Mizi City also has the appearance of "Kitaro Train", painted with characters from Kitaro cartoons.
In 2003, Shigeru Mizuki Memorial Hall (Shui Mu Memorial Hall) was also opened in the port city, with different rooms such as "monster room", "monster world" and "monster room".
Anecdotes of characters
Adventures
Shigeru Mizuki is also interested in witnessing and collecting exotic cultural ceremonies and cultural relics from different countries, and has visited different cultural attractions in different parts of the world for many times.
Mexico: Participated in the festival of DíadelosMuertos and collected a large number of masks used in the festival. China: Go to Yunnan to see "Ma Jia Paper". Britain: Visiting Cornwall with Jun Jiang, a leprechaun researcher. It is said that there will be goblins at Stonehenge. America: Appreciating the ceremony of Native American Hopi. Taiwan Province Province: 199 1 year, went to Taiwan Province Province to experience the concept of falling shadows. Later, I went to Tainan to watch Jibei of the Silaya people play the Arimu Festival. Australia: Look at the stone murals of Australian aborigines. Bhutan: Look at the penis icon on the building to ward off evil spirits. New Guinea: Explore with local residents. Legend has it that monsters will appear next to the river jungle.
Personal adventure
From childhood to old age, Shigeru Mizuki encountered several unexplained phenomena. When I was a child, after my grandmother died, I once went to the toilet in the middle of the night and saw a hazy white object. Shigeru Mizuki once took a nap on the ceiling of his house and saw a copper coin flying in the air. Later, he learned that it was the legendary "Dolly". During World War II, Shigeru Mizuki served in the southern islands. One night, he was attacked by enemy fire, and he jumped into the sea to escape. On the way to the other side of the jungle, Shigeru Mizuki felt that something like a wall had been blocking his progress. Later, Shigeru Mizuki thought that what he met at that time was the rumored monster "Tu Bi" (ぬりかべ).
Use a pseudonym
Shigeru Mizuki Dongichiro (formed by merging the name of a former dentist in Shigeru Mizuki and Shinichiro, the son of his brother). ) _ すすむむてつぃさむむらもてつつヰヰヰ