Kazuo Koike was inducted into the Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2004 and attended San Diego Comic Con as a guest in 2013 – meeting him was a highlight for many that year.Ī rarity as a writer only in the cartoonist-dominated manga field, Koike was one of the greats in any language, his work mostly concerned with the brutal world of men and effects of violence, a muscular, confident storyteller whose pacing never let up. He also dabbled in US comics, writing the Hulk manga in Japan and contributing a story for X-Men Unlimited #50 in 2003.
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Koike also was an avid golfer and professional mah jong player – and he wrong long detailed manga about these as well. Koike is best known for co-creating Lone Wolf and Cub (with artist Goseki Kojima) but beyond that seminal, transformative work he was one of manga’s most revered writers, also co-creating the recent New Lone Wolf and Cub, Samurai Executioner, Crying Freeman and Lady Snowblood ( the film adaptation for this was the partial inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill.) He had been hospitalized for pneumonia for some time. Japanese writer Kazuo Koike passed away on April 17th at age 82, it was announced on his Twitter feed.
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