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Misako Takashima (known professionally as Misako Rocks!) is a Japanese comic strip artist and writer/illustrator of
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s, known for her illustrations in the column "
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" and other features in ''
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'', and for her appearance in the
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documentary ''Story of Drawing''. She has also published work in the United Kingdom manga anthology ''Manga Mover'' and has signed with Hyperion Books to publish manga in the United States.ICv2 - Hyperion to Publish Manga
According to art critic Andrew Graham Dixon, she is "an artist who follows many of the ancient visual and narrative traditions from which manga has evolved, but at the same time brings them into the modern world and gives them her own deeply personal interpretation." A shy child, she has said that she spent her childhood drawing, and hiding. "I just wanted to put my fantasy world on paper."''Andrew Graham Dixon on The Secret of Drawing''. BBC TV


Career

Misako Rocks! developed a love for comics and manga at an early age and drew her first comic at the age of 13."Bio"
. Misako Rocks!. Retrieved November 23, 2012. She moved to New York in 2001 and worked as a puppeteer, face painter, animal balloon maker, and art teacher while still developing her comics own work. Her entry into the industry came when ''
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'' decided to use her illustrations for their weekly "Savage Love" column. Misako's parents and brother were all police officers, but she wanted to be different. Soon she got into a school in the US and met many friends there. During the summer she went to a puppet camp and she loved it even though it was hard. Time went quickly in America and soon she had to go back to Japan, but she promised her friends that she would come back. Misako Rocks! was influenced by the work of
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, which she encountered while living in
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. "I picked up a copy of '' Eightball'' and thought What's this! It's so good! Who did that! - his humor - so cynical , and so great." Like her character, ''Biker Girl'', "she seems to embody the very spirit of manga, on the one hand she's introverted, full of the Japanese work ethic, but she's also got this manic wild child energy, which comes out after dark, when she puts away her sketchbook and jumps on stage in nightclubs."


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