Suzue Miuchi
Suzue Miuchi (美内 すずえ, Miuchi Suzue, born February 20, 1951) is a Japanese manga artist and author of long-running shōjo manga Glass Mask.
| Suzue Miuchi 美内 すずえ  | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 20, 1951 Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan  | 
| Nationality | Japanese | 
| Area(s) | Writer, Penciller, Inker | 
Notable works  | Glass Mask | 
| Awards | 1982 Kodansha Manga Award  1995 Japan Cartoonists Association Award  | 
Life
    
She was born in Nishinomiya, Japan and grew up in Osaka. She lived nearby a rental bookstore (kashi-hon) in her childhood and started drawing manga herself, when she had too many unpaid bills at a rental bookstore and her mother forbid her to continue reading manga. Miuchi made her professional debut as a manga artist in 1967, aged only 16, with the manga Yama no Tsuki to Kodanuki in the shōjo magazine Margaret. Her early debut as a highschool-aged manga artist inspired Yukari Ichijo to start a professional career as a manga artist at the time. She became famous for publishing short stories in the early 1970s, among them also horror manga.[1] Her 1975 short story Shiroi Kagebōshi is considered a classic of shōjo horror manga.[2]
Her biggest success came in 1976, when she began the long-running and ongoing series Glass Mask (Glass no Kamen) about a girl becoming a famous theater actress. The manga has been adapated into a stage play, a live-action TV series and an anime series.[1]
She won the Kodansha Manga Award (1982) for Youkihi-den[3] and the Japan Cartoonists Association Award (1995) for Glass Mask.
Works
    
    Series
    
- Moeru Niji (燃える虹), 1970
 - 13-gatsu no Higeki (13月の悲劇), 1971
 - Amaranth no Joō (アマランスの女王), 1972
 - Harukanaru Kaze to Hikari (はるかなる風と光), 1973–1974
 - Kujaku-iro no Kanaria (孔雀色のカナリア), 1973–1974
 - Shira-yuri no Kishi (白ゆりの騎士), 1974–1975
 - Glass Mask (ガラスの仮面, Garasu no Kamen), since 1976, serialized in Hana to Yume and Bessatsu Hana to Yume
 - Saint Alice Teikoku (聖アリス帝国, Sei-Arisu Teikoku), 1976–1978
 - Bara Monogatari (バラ物語), 1979
 - Yōkihi-den (妖鬼妃伝), 1981
 - Dynamite Milk Pie (ダイナマイト・みるく・パイ, Dainamaito Miruku Pai), 1982
 - Amaterasu (アマテラス), 1986–1995
 
One-shots
    
- Yama no Tsuki to Kodanuki to (山の月とこだぬきと), 1967
 - Shiroi Kagebōshi (白い影法師), 1975, published in Mimi
 - Dynamite Milkpie
 - Futari no Melody
 - Kaerazaru Hyuuga
 - Majou Medea
 - Niji no Ikusa
 - Oujo Alexandra
 - Pollyana's Knight
 - Shiroi Kageboshi
 
References
    
-  International perspectives on shojo and shojo manga : the influence of girl culture. Masami Toku. New York. 2015. pp. 190–196. ISBN 978-1-317-61075-5. OCLC 910847745.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link) - Dollase, Hiromi Tsuchiya (2010). ""Shōjo" Spirits in Horror Manga". U.S.-Japan Women's Journal (38): 67. ISSN 2330-5037. JSTOR 42772010.
 - Joel Hahn. "Kodansha Manga Awards". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on 2007-08-16. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
 
External links
    
- Miuchi's homepage (in Japanese)
 - Suzue Miuchi at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
 - Suzue Miuchi at IMDb