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Ryoichi Ikegami
Japanese manga artist (born 1944)
Ryoichi Ikegami (Japanese: 池上 遼一, Hepburn: Ikegami Ryōichi, born May 29, 1944) is a Japanese manga artist that usually works as the illustrator in collaboration with a writer. He is best known for Crying Freeman (1986–1988), written by Kazuo Koike, and Heat (1999–2004), written by Buronson. The latter won the 2001 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga. Ikegami received the Fauves d'Honneur at the 2023 Angoulême International Comics Festival.[2]Yoshihide Fujiwara is a former assistant of Ikegami's.
Career
After graduating from junior high school, Ikegami moved to Osaka and drew manga while working as a billboard sign painter,[3] debuting at the age of 17 writing rental comics.[4] In 1966, he published a story called Tsumi no Ishiki (罪の意識) in the gekiga magazine Garo that caught the eye of fellow Garo contributor, Shigeru Mizuki, who offered him a job as his assistant. Ikega