is a manga artist who wrote ''
Kobo, the Li'l Rascal
''Kobo, the Li'l Rascal'', also known as , is a manga created by Masashi Ueda. Kodansha published three volumes of the manga as a bilingual Japanese-English editions, and Kodansha America distributed the book in the United States.
''Kobo- ...
'', a
four-panel comic that has headlined ''Daily Yomiuri'' since 1982 and has amassed over 10,000 strips and 60 compilation volumes, as well as inspiring an anime adaptation.
Ueda began drawing comic book strips when he worked in his brother's
cram school. Ueda began producing ''
Furiten-kun'', a comic book strip about a
mahjong player, in 1979.
In 1982 Ueda won the
Bungeishunjū Manga Award
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Past winners of the award inclu ...
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." ZTV. Retrieved on September 2, 2009. "・『フリテンくん』『まさし君』『かりあげクン』（植田まさし）" During that year he began producing ''Kobo, the Li'l Rascal''. In 1988, as part of the United Nations
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International Literacy Year
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Music Albums
* ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011
* ''International'' (New Order album), 2002
* ''International'' (The T ...
he visited Nepal
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as a special commissioner. In 1999 the Japan Comic Artists Association awarded Ueda a prize.
Works
References
External links
*
Masashi Ueda interview
at Manga Time
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Manga artists
1947 births
Living people