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GeGeGe No Kitaro creator and Yokai scholar Shigeru Mizuki has died at the age of 93. He will be greatly missed.

http://kotaku.com/beloved-manga-artist- ... 1745194794

He seems to have been quite a character.
I acquired and read a number of his translated works over the past few years, and I really grew to appreciate him as an artist & storyteller, as well as a historian.

A very nice remembrance of Mizuki by translator Zack Davisson:

http://hyakumonogatari.com/2015/11/30/o ... i-shigeru/

NPR did a segment about Mizuki:

http://www.npr.org/2015/12/01/458058747 ... dies-at-93

Official statement from Mizuki Shigeru’s Family:

http://www.mizukipro.com/2015/12/post-1342.html


and translation by Zack:
http://hyakumonogatari.com/2015/12/01/m ... us-family/

Another really good article about Mizuki, this one by Matt Alt:

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultur ... -creatures

I've become a huge fan of his since Drawn and Quarterly started releasing his work for us Americans a few years ago. I was saddened deeply by his passing, because despite his advanced age I assumed (as anyone would after seeing a few videos of him) that he would live forever.

His with his friends, the yokai, now.

Artists and Fans Gather to Say Goodbye to Manga Legend Shigeru Mizuki

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2 ... eru-mizuki