The Artist

• She was born on February 20th 1951 in Osaka, Japan.
• Her blood type is O.
• A big fan of manga since her childhood, she used to frequent book rental shops keeping it secret from her parents.
• When she was still an elementary student, she even kept a running tab in the book shop!
• Her parents were shocked when they saw the bill to pay, and they obliged her not to buy manga any longer.
• She started drawing manga by herself when she was still a kid (10 years old!).
• She attended the Osaka Seikei Girl's High School.
• One day, when she was attending the 1st year of high school, she made a deal with her mother: if she wasn't able to make her debut as a comic artist during her 2nd year of high school, she would give it up. In return, her mother would let her draw comics during that year.
• As you know, she succeeded. She made her debut as a mangaka in 1967.
• She wrote a lot of manga, the most of which are short horror tales.
• Her masterpiece is Garasu no Kamen, started in 1976 and not finished yet :(
• She won the Koudansha Manga Prize in 1982 with her short horror story 'Youkihiden' and the Excellent Prize of Japan Mangaka Association in 1995 with Garasu no Kamen.
• It seems that she stopped writing manga since she created a kind of religion/organization which focuses on spirituality (O-en)
• Suzue Miuchi's husband was a photographer. It is said that at the beginning she didn't like him and that Ayumi Himekawa and Peter Hammill were modelled on Suzue Miuchi and her husband.
• He owns a French restaurant in Japan.

If you want to contact Miuchi sensei and send her compliments, opinions and suggestions, write her at suzue.m@nifty.com

Suzue Miuchi's Official Site (in Japanese): Olive no Happa

Suzue Miuchi and her assistants (from "Garasu no Kamen"):

Suzue Miuchi as seen by Shinji Wada:

 

A beautiful photo of Miuchi sensei was published in the magazine 'Shuukan SPA' on February 8th 2005.