Garo Artists Index

This file supports the Garo magazine index, which lists the stories that appeared in Garo from July, 1966 up to (planned at the moment) July, 1971. The magazine itself started in 1964, and effectively ran into the ground in the early 1990s. It's peak circulation was in the early- to mid-70's, largely due (in my opinion) to Sanpei Shirato's "Kamui-Den" (Legend of Kamui). But that ended with the aforementioned July, 1971, issue. I'm picking this specific timeframe because this is about when used copies of the magazine start dropping below 500 yen each ($5.50 USD). Given the sheer volume of manga involved, it's something of a challenge to go through 1 a week, and with 60 issues in this span, just this one 5-year period is going to take a year to wade through. Anyone that wants to help contribute will be welcomed.

This page will give a little background on the artists appearing, alphabetically, in Garo during this 5-year span. Fairly early on, the editors made an open request for the readers to submit their own stories, where the emphasis was on storytelling rather than artistic skills, in that, as Sanpei had said, it'd always be possible to go back and fix the art later. What this means is that a number of stories came from amateurs that never did anything else commercially after their one or two accepted ideas. For more information on specific stories, go to the main index page, and click on the link for that month to see the related blog review entry.


I realize there may be mistakes, oversights or omissions in the below information. If you find something, please let me know.

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Garo Artists from 1964 to 1965

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Story Title (English)

Title (Japanese)

Page Count

Appearance

Abe, Shinichi (安部慎一)

Shinichi Abe (1950-) is the second of Garo's so-called "1-2-3" artists (along with Masuzou Furukawa and Oji Suzuki), because the kanji in their names can be read as the numbers 1, 2 or 3. While Abe has an extensive list of credits in the Japanese wiki, and his autobiographical manga "Miyoko Asagaya Kibun" was released as the movie "Miyoko" in 2009, there is very little information on him in English. In fact, the following information comes only from the Twitch Film review of the movie. Abe lived in the artist district in Tokyo in the 1970's. His debut work for Garo was "The Gentle Person" (May, 1970). He started out as a struggling artist until he decided to feature a model, Miyoko, as his main character. Later, they marry, and the "Miyoko" manga is serialized in Garo. However, Abe had a problem with drugs and alcohol, and things spiraled out of control, as described in the "Miyoko" manga. More recently, Abe was one of the artists to appear in the "Ax Anthology, vol. 1".

The Gentle Person	やさしい人	19	May, '70, #75
Miyoko Asagaya's Feeling	美代子阿佐ヶ谷気分		various

Akasegawa, Genpei (赤瀬川原平)

I first encountered Genpei Akasegawa (1937-) when I did the comparison between Garo and COM. At that time, he had appeared in the July, 1971 issue of Garo. According to the English wiki, he is an artist and literary author, working under the names Genpei Akasegawa, Katsuhiko Akasegawa and Katsuhiko Otsuji. Born in Yokohama, he was part of the Neo Dada movement in the 50's and 60's. He coined the term "Tomasons" to refer to ordinary, useless street objects that look like conceptual art, named after a very bad Yomiuri Giants outfielder, Gary Thomasson. Currently, he's a camera collector and avid photographer. He may be best known for the "1000-yen Incident", when he sent out invitations to a solo exhibition in Tokyo in 1963. The invites were on copies of a 1000 yen bill, resulting in his being convicted on counterfeiting charges. He also wrote a comment on Yuu Takita, in the Garo tribute to Yuu, issue #59.

Tatami Room	お座敷	43	June, '70, #77
Sakura Pictorial	桜画報		various

Fujisawa, Mitsuo (藤沢光男)

Mitsuo preferred to create bizarre 4-page gag strips with weird art and weirder characters as part of his "Aozora Tarou's Picture Diary". He was on chapter 6 as of the July, '66, issue, and he'd only appear every few months. Nothing on him on the net.

Aozora Tarou's Picture Diary	青空太郎の絵日記		various
Kerorintan rintan tan	けろりんたん りんたん たん	16	July, '68, #48
Totte Chitte Tar	トッテチッテター	13	Sept., '69, #65
Soldier's Lament	防人哀歌	1	Jan., '70, #70
1/4 Surprise	ぶらりよんの一	12	Mar., '70, #73

Furukawa, Masuzou (古川益三)

Masuzou Furukawa (1950-) is noteable, if for no other reason, for having founded the Mandarake used bookstore chain, with the first shop opening on the second floor of the Broadway department store in Nakano (west of Shinjuku a few miles) in 1980. "Field Bath" was his debut work, and shortly afterward he joined Mizuki Pro in July, 1970, as an assistant artist. He worked various part-time jobs to supplement his income as an artist from roughly 1971 to 1980, which included a stint at another bookstore, which prompted him to open Mandarake. Various sources, including Anime News Network, identify Furukawa as one of Garo's "1-2-3" artists of the '70s and '80s, along with Oji Suzuki and Shin'ichi Abe (supposedly the second syllable of each artist's name sounds like "one", "two" and "three" when taken in order). We'll see Furukawa show up again in July, 1971, with "Violet Legend".

Field Bath	野風呂	16	July, '69, #62
Mantounagashi & Nightschool Student	万燈流し、夜学生	10	Feb., '70, #71
Morning, Getting Dark, Island	朝、くれない、島	15	Mar., '70, #73
Lake Bell, Night Train, Aoba River, Winter Night Sketch of Wild Grass	湖の鐘、夜汽車、青葉川、野草冬夜山行小絵詞	25	Apr., '70, #74
Purple Legend, 2 Chapters	紫の伝説　二の章	22	June, '70, #77
Purple Legend, 2 Chapters	紫の伝説　二の章	28	July, '70, #78
Purple Legend	紫の伝説　二の章		various
Purple Legend	紫の伝説	21	Dec., '70, #84
Purple Legend	紫の伝説	22	Jan., '71, #86
Purple Legend	紫の伝説	17	Feb., '71, #87
Purple Legend	紫の伝説	31	Mar., '71, #88
Purple Legend	紫の伝説	20	Apr., '71, #90
Purple Legend	紫の伝説	27	May, '71, #92
Purple Legend	紫の伝説	23	June, '71, #93
Purple Legend	紫の伝説	30	July, '71, #95

Hanawa, Kazuichi (花輪和一)

Hanawa has got a really long credit list on the Japanese wiki, but probably the one title he'll most be known for in the U.S. is "Doing Time". He had been an avid collector of old rifles, and he got caught up by Japan's no firearms law. He was convicted and sentenced in 1994 to 3 years in prison. When he got out, he created "Doing Time" to chronicle his experiences, and it ran in Garo's rival magazine, AX. It was carried in the U.S. by Fanfare in 2004.

Kan no Mushi

かんのむし

10

July, '71, #95

Hayashi, Seiichi (林静一)

Seiichi (1945-) is most well-known in the U.S. for his "Red-Colored Elegy", published by Drawn and Quarterly, although the bio on him at D&Q is woefully inadequate and there's no English wiki entry yet. The Japanese wiki is much more complete. A review at Anthem Magazine gives a bit more background, describing him as "a manga artist, film (and commercial) director, art director, illustrator, and children's book author". His anime credits include "Shadow" (かげ, 1968), "The Oct. 13 Murder" (10月13日の殺人, 1970) and "Demon Love Song" (鬼恋歌, 1971). The Japanese wiki indicates that he'd entered Toei Animation Studios as an animator in 1962. While his early works already had a lot of absurdist symbolism, with the "Rose" series he entered a seriously surreal phase.

Aguma, his son, and the uneaten spirit	アグマと息子と食えない魂	7	Nov., '67, #39
Oh, Towards Daybreak	おお、暁の光に	13	Feb., '68, #42
My mother	吾が母は	26	Apr., '68, #44
Gigantic Fish	巨大な魚	15	May, '68, #45
Red Dragonfly	赤とんぼ	12	June, '68, #46
Mountain Witch Lullaby	山姥子守唄	0	Sept., '68, #50
Scattered Rose Town	花ちる町	0	Oct., '68, #52
Rose Crest	花の紋章	18	Nov., '68, #53
Rose Crest, Continued	花の紋章	18	Dec., '68, #54
Rose Crest, Final	花の紋章	22	Jan., '69, #55
To Sing One's Own Praises	みずからの歌を唄って	6	Feb., '69, #56
Flower Poem	花の詩	16	Feb., '69, #56
Flower Poem	花の詩	16	Mar., '69, #57
Flower Poem	花の詩	24	Apr., '69, #58
Flower Poem	花さく港	34	May, '69, #60
Deep Red Rock	まっかっかロック	14	July, '69, #62
Red Background	赤地点	10	Aug., '69, #64
Red Bird, Little Bird	赤い鳥小鳥	8	Sept., '69, #65
Red Handkerchief	赤いハンカチ	8	Nov., '69, #67
Red Elegy	赤色エレジー	17	Jan., '70, #70
Red Elegy (2)	赤色エレジー (2)	13	Feb., '70, #71
Red-Colored Elegy	赤色エレジー	19	Mar., '70, #73
Red-Colored Elegy	赤色エレジー	19	Apr., '70, #74
Red-Colored Elegy	赤色エレジー	23	May, '70, #75
Red-Colored Elegy	赤色エレジー	13	June, '70, #77
Red-Colored Elegy	赤色エレジー	21	July, '70, #78
Red-Colored Elegy	赤色エレジー	23	Aug., '70, #79
Red-Colored Elegy	赤色エレジー	21	Sept., '70, #81
Red-Colored Elegy	赤色エレジー	21	Oct., '70, #82
Red-Colored Elegy	赤色エレジー	11	Nov., '70, #83
Red-Colored Elegy	赤色エレジー	21	Dec., '70, #84
Red-Colored Elegy	赤色エレジー	21	Jan., '71, #86

Hino, Hideshi (日野日出志)

I've never heard of Hideshi (1946-) before, but he's an established horror artist, according to the English wiki entry. The Japanese wiki has a much more complete listing of his works, but it's missing the name of his 1967 debut work for Tezuka's COM magazine (the rival of Garo). There's also no mention of Mud Dolls in either wiki. According to the wiki entries: Born in China, his family escaped back to Japan when the post-war anti-Japan actions erupted. His grandfather was a yakuza, and his father was an itinerant pig farmer with a spider tattoo on his back. His early influences included Shigeru Sugiura and Yoshiharu Tsuge. His works have also appeared in shojo magazines, and a number of his manga have been turned into live-action films.

Mud Dolls	どろ人形	16	May, '68, #45
Paradise in the Water	水の中の楽園	0	Sept., '68, #50
Baka Snow	ばか雪	20	Nov., '68, #53

Ibara, Miki (いばら美喜)

There's very little on Miki Ibara in either Japanese or English. She is an established shojo horror artist, and thirteens.net lists quite a few of her titles (unfortunately, I can't get the URL to print out here). There does seem to be a decent fan page for her, with some bio information, but no wiki pages.

Victor

勝利者

20

July, '70, #78

Ikegami, Ryouichi (池上遼一)

Ryouichi, may be best known for his hyper-realistic action series, such as "Crying Freeman" and "Mai, the Psychic Girl". But, when he was first starting out, he had a much sloppier, cartoony style similar to early Tezuka and Yoshiharu Tsuge, which then morphed into the hyper-realistic designs of the horror manga "Summer". Some of his first stories appeared in Garo.

Crime of Awareness	罪の意識	12	Sept., '66, #25
Summer	夏	20	Aug., '67, #36
Globe	地球儀	18	Sept., '67, #37
Game Preserve	禁猟区	24	Nov., '67, #39
3-Sided Mirror Flirtation	三面鏡の戯れ	18	Dec., '67, #40
Fuutarou	風太郎		various
Tomoko and Hato-san	トモ子とハトさん	40	Oct., '68, #52
A Wonderful Era	すばらしき時代	40	Nov., '68, #53
Electric Artificial Arm	電動式義手	24	Feb., '69, #56
White Fluid	白い液体	24	June, '69, #61
Mayfly	かげろう	28	Oct., '69, #66
Snow Country	雪国	28	Nov., '69, #67
Slip	スリップ	16	Mar., '70, #73
Windy Day Incident	風の日の出来事	27	Dec., '70, #84

Ikeuchi,Makoto (池内誠)

Makoto Ikeuchi is a pen name for Seiichi Ikeuchi, who also wrote under different hiragana and kanji spellings of his own name. According to the Akame fan page (Aka Me Pro, or Red Eye Productions was Sampei Shirato's studio), Ikeuchi was born in 1947, and entered Aka Me Pro around 1966 as an assistant, where he worked on "Watari" and "Kamui Gaiden". "Revolt" was his manga debut, and he went on to create various golf manga, including "The Swing". There's an interview with him at Comipress.

Revolt

反乱

28

June, '67, #34

Katsumata, Susumu (勝又進)

Katsumata may be better known in the U.S. as the creator of "Red Snow", published in 2009 by Drawn and Quarterly. However, what most book reviewers seem to miss is that "Red Snow" hadn't run in Garo. It originally appeared in a different magazine. In any event, starting with the June, 1966, issue, he began appearing regularly in Garo with a series of short panel (yonkoma) gag strips, usually satirical or political in nature. Sometimes, there'd only be one page of gags, other times it could be up to 12 pages.

He graduated from the Tokyo University of Education with a degree in physics, and studied nuclear physics as postgraduate work. He died at age 63 from melanoma.

Katsumata's Creation Collection	勝又進 作品集		various
I--diot	あ〜ほ	12	Dec., '69, #69
Straw Book	わら草紙	22	May, '70, #75
Foliage Warp	木の葉経	31	Nov., '70, #83
Cat's Gravesite	猫の墓	15	Feb., '71, #87
Kantaro Moon	かんたろ月	20	Mar., '71, #88
Winter Sea	冬の海	29	Apr., '71, #90
Drunkard's Song	酔いどれ唄	22	May, '71, #92
Trimmed Flower	末摘花	12	June, '71, #93

Komori, Makoto (コモリ マコト)

The problem with trying to track down information on these artists is that occasionally their names turn out to be fairly common, (and of course they could have been using a pen name) and if there's no solid wiki page on them you're just piecing information together that may not be for the person you want. There's no wiki entry on Makoto Komori (コモリ マコト) in English or Japanese, but he does come up fairly often as a children's book author, specifically for the "Bal, the Car" series, and some scary books aimed at misbehaving kids. The earliest ones date back to 1978. There's also a bassist for the punk band Link of the same name, and a power train design engineer for Nissan. But I'm thinking that these are three separate, unrelated people and the one we want is the children's book author.

Wonder Drug TCM

妙薬TCM

8

Sept., '67, #37

Kougo, Tsuguo (向後つぐお)

Tsuguo Kougo was a prolific artist having worked extensively with Comic Goraku, drawing adult-themed manga based on shogi and gambling in general. There's very little written up on him though, in either English or Japanese.

One Tear	ひとつぶのなみだ	10	Mar., '69, #57
The Snow is Falling	ゆきがふる	20	June, '69, #61
Big Hands	おおきな手	12	July, '69, #62
Fireworks Do Not Shoot Up	花火は上がらず	21	Sept., '69, #65
Miserable Village	哀れふるさと	24	Nov., '69, #67
The Robber of the Spring	春の盗賊	21	Dec., '69, #69
Shadow Fire	陰火	19	May, '70, #75
One Eye	ひとつ目	20	July, '70, #78

Koyama, Haruo & Ri, Haruko (小山 春夫 & 李 春子)

Oyuki was written by Haruko Ri, and illustrated by Haruo Koyama. Haruko Ri apparently isn't a Japanese name, but I'm not finding a lot in English on her. Her last name could also be read as "Sumomo", which does come up in the credits for "Gen and Tsugumi", a manga also illustrated by Haruo Koyama that ran in Shonen Sunday in 1969. Her name also shows up for one illustrated picture book on the eHon site. So, she seems to have been somewhat active as a writer. Haruo Koyama (1934-), on the other hand, had worked as an assistant at Aka Me Pro (Shirato's studio) before going off on his own. There's a little bit of info on him on the net in Japanese, but no wiki page. He is listed as having drawn a manga in 1963 based on the "Kouga Ninja Scrolls" novel by Futaro Yamada (and later readapted by "Basilisk" artist Masaki Segawa). His time at Aka Me Pro shows vividly in Oyuki, given how much the artwork here resembles that from "Kamui-Den".

Oyuki

おゆき

28

Mar., '69, #57

Kusunoki, Shouhei (楠勝平)

Shouhei (1944-1974) was a regular contributor to Garo. He had a very clean, recognizable style, and he preferred to set his serio-comic dramas in the Edo period of the 1600's to the 1800's. He was principally a gekiga artist. According to one website, he debuted in 1960 with "Certain Kill Secrets" (必殺奥義) in "Master Fencer Picture Book" (剣豪画集). His "Senmaru" was serialized in Garo from Oct. 1964 to June, 1965. He then had a series of short manga appearing in both Garo and COM. As of yet, there's no entry for him in either the Japanese or English wiki. He seems to be a perfect match for Drawn and Quarterly, but his work apparently hasn't been translated into English commercially yet. He is credited as having worked for Sampei Shirato as an assistant.

Named Sword	名刀	17	Oct., '66, #26
Izakaya	いざかや	13	Nov., '66, #27
Osen	おせん	24	Dec., '66, #28
Tono-sama and the rough flavor	殿さまとざらざらした味	19	Jan., '67, #29
Brawl	喧嘩	12	Feb., '67, #30
Armor	鎧	9	Mar., '67, #31
Cold Sympathy	冷たい涙	12	May, '67, #33
Participation	参加	25	June, '67, #34
The Thief and the Stick	どろ棒 と こん棒	13	July, '67, #35
Kuki	茎	26	Sept., '67, #37
Kuki, the sequel	茎, 2	25	Oct., '67, #38
Red Water, First Half	赤水, 前篇	27	Dec., '67, #40
Red Water, Second Half	赤水, 後篇	31	Jan., '68, #41
Special News	臨時ニュース	34	May, '68, #45
Jeeze	チェッ	24	July, '69, #62
Stone Worker	石匠	36	Oct., '69, #66
Thief	盗っ人	46	Jan., '70, #70
The Large Room	大部屋	36	May, '70, #75
Bomutsu	暮六つ	31	Sept., '70, #81
All Together Now	あらさのさぁー	14	Feb., '71, #87
Soybean	まめ	21	Apr., '71, #90
Kajimata Defense Gate	梶又衛門	27	June, '71, #93

Masai, Shigeo (正井 滋魚)

Shigeo is yet another artist who only shows up in Garo. However, it looks like he may have contributed to a book on professional skier Yuuichirou Miura. He likes to create the kinds of stories that would fit in well in "The Twilight Zone" or "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine".

Shinigami	ザ。ゴッド。オブ。デス	6	July, '66, #23
God of the Street	正井滋魚	6	Sept., '66, #25
Demon Phone	電話魔	6	Oct., '66, #26
Mime	Mime	8	Nov., '69, #67
Mime	Mime	6	Jan., '70, #70

Mizuki, Shigeru (水木しげる)

Shigeru Mizuki is best known for "Gegege no Kitaro", which started in 1959. He debuted with "Rocketman" in 1957. His "Hakuba Kitaro" (Graveyard Kitaro) stories also ran in Garo. Again, check out the English wiki for more information on him.

Planet	惑星	8	July, '66, #23
The 10,000 Person Man	一万人目の男	8	July, '66, #23
Machi Comi	マチコミ	8	Aug., '66, #24
5 Yen Coin	五円玉	8	Aug., '66, #24
Round Ring World	丸い輪の世界	16	Sept., '66, #25
Hot Day	暑い日	8	Oct., '66, #26
Showa Year 141	昭和百四十一年	8	Oct., '66, #26
Footsteps Mystery	足跡の怪	8	Nov., '66, #27
Late Night Bus	深夜のバス	8	Nov., '66, #27
Bizarre Corpse Book	怪奇死人帳	98	Dec., '66, #28
Sand Throwing Hag	砂かけ婆	8	Jan., '67, #29
Silverfish	紙魚	8	Jan., '67, #29
The Terrible Rival	恐るべきライバル	8	Feb., '67, #30
Corpse Invitation	死者の招き	8	Feb., '67, #30
Betobeto-san	べとべとさん	8	Mar., '67, #31
Alchemy	錬金術	12	Apr., '67, #32
Kitaro Night Stories	鬼太郎夜話		various
Lazy Musashi	なまけ武蔵	6	Sept., '67, #37
Japan's Gods	日本のカミサマたち	3	Dec., '67, #40
Rotary	Rotary	1	Jan., '68, #41
Strange Poop Happenings	糞奇談	1	Feb., '68, #42
Rotary	Rotary	1	Apr., '68, #44
White Flag	白い旗	50	May, '68, #45
Ghost Mass Media	妖怪マスコミ	2	June, '68, #46
Rotary	ロータリー	1	Aug., '68, #49
Future Tokyo	未来のトオキョウ	2	Feb., '70, #71
Izumi Kondou and The Border	近藤勇と国境線	1	May, '70, #75
Man Who Seized the Star	星をつかみそこねる男		various

Morimoto, Kiyohiko (森本清彦)

There's not a lot of information on Kiyohiko Morimoto in Japanese or English. He is listed in Nihon Mangaka, which has a selection of his works, and there are a few pages with some sample artwork. He does have a blog, but it's not that interesting. At present, he seems to be doing primarily editorial-style caracature work.

Lullaby

子守唄

19

Apr., '70, #74

Nagashima, Shinji (永島慎二)

Shinji Nagashima (1937-2005) worked for Tezuka's Mushi Productions, on "Jungle Taitei", among other titles. He had a number of his own manga appearing in Garo and COM . He also worked for Takao Saito (Golgo 13) for a while. He's got about 20 titles listed in the English wiki. With "Life" in volume 34, he started running what he called the "Shinji Gekiga Collection".

La Masque	仮面	17	May, '67, #33
Inochi (Life)	生命	40	June, '67, #34
Assistant	アシスタント	25	July, '67, #35
The Scarecrow Hears the Frog's Story	かかしが きいた かえろはなし	29	Aug., '67, #36
Fly	はえ	13	Oct., '67, #38
Prohibited Games	禁じられた遊	13	Nov., '67, #39
Small World	ちいさいな世界	14	Jan., '68, #41
Ode to Osome	おそめこのへんか	24	Oct., '68, #52
Old Monkey-Crab Days	さるかに昔	24	Nov., '68, #53
Furuyanomori	ふるやのもり	24	Dec., '68, #54
Tsuru	つる	24	Jan., '69, #55
Runny Nose Kid	はなだれこぞう	24	Feb., '69, #56
Umbrella Wearing Statues	かさこ じぞう	18	May, '69, #60
Manga Artist - Vagabond - Japan Federation of Student Associations	マンガ家-フーテン-全学連	6	May, '69, #60
Urashima	うらしま	18	July, '69, #62
Castaways	漂流者たち	22	Nov., '69, #67
Please Don't Laugh!	笑わないで下さい！	12	Mar., '70, #73

Naka, Yoshiko (仲佳子)

No hits on Yoshiko Naka, in English or Japanese. "Yoshiko" is probably a female name, so I'll assume it's a "her" until corrected. Yoshiko first appeared in issue Garo issue 52, which is one that I haven't been able to find yet. She goes on to appear sporadically for the next year or so. Her initial style is a bit amateurish, with characters all having oversized heads. She settles down over time, with the designs looking a little more realistic, but the stories switching from light gags to surreal impressionism.

Sea Ground Cherry	海ほおずき	0	Oct., '68, #52
Youshi	養子	16	Nov., '68, #53
Stroll of New Good Luck	新吉の散歩	16	Feb., '69, #56
Green Grass	若草	10	June, '69, #61
House #13, Minato Harbor	港町十三番地	16	Oct., '69, #66
White Bird	白い鳥	18	Nov., '69, #67
White Face	白い顔	10	Feb., '70, #71
Chichikuri Tenements	ちちくり長屋	12	July, '70, #78

Nanba, Kenji (南波健二)

Kenji (1940-) has a long list of credits on the Japanese wiki, but little mention of him in English. One of his assistants, Takumi Nagayasu, later went on to team up with Katsuhiro Otomo on the "Mother Sarah" series. One of his few manga to be mentioned in English anywhere is "1970 Tagiri", which had run in Shonen Jump in 1970. He started out appearing in anthologies and rental manga, doing action and historical dramas. It's not surprising that there's a very strong hint of "Golgo 13" in his character designs - he'd been a member of Takao Saito's manga group and worked as an assistant for him for a while.

Battlefield

戦場

various

Naono, Yoshiko (直野祥子)

It looks like Yoshiko went on to draw some picture books, but there's no real profile on her in either English or Japanese. One of her books is listed on the Tsutaya store auction site, and apparently she made an appearance as late as April or May, 2006 on Musashino FM.

Experiment

実験

14

Aug., '68, #49

Narumi, U. (嗚海幸保)

Like Shigeo Masai, Narumi goes for the "Alfred Hitchcock" form of weird murder stories, but with a much cruder art style. Nothing on him in either Japanese or English, but he did contribute to Garo occasionally.

Nonsense Mystery	ノンセヌ。ミステリー	10	July, '66, #23
Bad Flower	悪の華	13	Oct., '66, #26

Nishi, Takerou (西たけろう)

Nishi Takerou shows up fairly heavily as a shojo horror manga artist, with a few books on the auction sites. But there's not very much in the way of personal information on him.

Nightmare

悪夢

20

Jan., '70, #70

Ogawa, Akira (おがわあきら)

In through the first year of my timespan (1966-1967), Akira appeared every few issues with his "Poem of Heaven and Weeds" serial. It was fairly preachy and definitely my least favorite manga in Garo. Actually, it only ran 9 chapters, but the other artists seemed to enjoy occasionally putting caricatures of Akira in their own stories, making him something of a fixture during this period. There's very little on him personally on the net, and his name is pretty common in Japanese, making a search on him difficult. Note that in 1965 he did run a limited series in Garo titled "Tatakai Aru Kagiri Ni" (戦いある限りに) ("To the Limits of Battle").

Poem of heaven and weeds	大空と雑草の詩		various
Adolescent Gravesite	青春の墓	20	Mar., '68, #43
The Long Winter	永い冬	24	Jan., '70, #70

Ohtani, Hiroyuki (陰溝蝿児)

I have yet to get a pronunciation for "陰溝蝿児". According to the Garo Encyclopedia, his real name is 大谷弘行 (Hiroyuki Ohtani). And Ohtani has appeared here before with "Falling Star" (issue #71) and "Winter Wind" (#74). I first encountered "陰溝蝿児" when I did the initial review of Garo, with the July, 1971, issue. He was in the middle of a different murder mystery at that time, indicating that the current series storyline only lasts a few chapters.

Falling Star	流星	14	Feb., '70, #71
Winter Wind	凩	20	Apr., '70, #74
Flame	ほのお	12	July, '70, #78
Dark Alliance	暗黒同盟	26	Aug., '70, #79
Water Drop	雫	14	Oct., '70, #82
"Detective Inkouyoko Series"	[探偵陰溝蝿児シリーズ]		various
Detective Inkouyoko	探偵陰溝蝿児		various

Ohyama, Manabu (大山学)

Manabu Ohyama (1947-) apparently was a fairly prolific artist, but he's not all that well-known. I'm not finding entries on him in either the English or Japanese wikis, but there is a Japanese fan page on him that lists many of his titles and includes some sample artwork.

Accident	遭難	27	Jan., '69, #55
Fossil Forest	化石の森	24	June, '69, #61
Yesterday's Premonition	きのうの予感	32	Feb., '71, #87

Sasaki, Maki (佐々木まき)

Maki Sasaki (佐々木まき) (born in 1946) (real name Toshihiko Hasegawa (長谷川俊彦)) has a large number of titles to his credit, and a slight write-up on the Japanese wiki. The ehon page has a small bio, saying that he was born and raised in Kobe. His early works appeared in Garo and the Asahi Journal. He then pioneered a series of nonsense picture books in 1973 and 1979. He also wrote the "Nemui nemui Nezumi" (The sleepy sleepy mouse) series among others. He is mentioned on Same Hat, and 1 or 2 of his short manga have been scanned by Pink Tentacle.

A Common Story	よくあるはなし	4	Nov., '66, #27
At the Unknown Star	見知らぬ星で	12	Feb., '67, #30
Dreams of Heaven	天国でみる夢	17	Nov., '67, #39
Ballad of Anri and Annu	アンリとアンヌのバラード	25	Apr., '68, #44
Killer	殺人者	17	July, '68, #48
Seventeen	セベンてテイーン	15	Aug., '68, #49
Town Horse	まちのうま	0	Sept., '68, #50
Boy, Cute Boy	ぼうや、かわいいぼうや	0	Oct., '68, #52
...............	...............	20	Dec., '68, #54
Vietnam Debate	ヴェトナム討論	20	Jan., '69, #55
Sad Tree (?)	かなしいまっくす	12	Feb., '69, #56
Seikai Youbi	聖灰曜日		various
LoVe CHimE	LoVe CHimE	12	Aug., '69, #64
Summer Course	サマーコース	12	Sept., '69, #65
Air Pocket	エア-ポケット	10	Oct., '69, #66
Mary of the Harbor	港のマリー	8	Nov., '69, #67
Rounin Confusion	素浪人錯乱	8	Jan., '70, #70
(no name)	(no name)	1	July, '70, #78
Light Drama of the Eye	軽気劇砂漠の目玉	12	Aug., '70, #79
Light Drama of the Eye	軽気劇砂漠の目玉	10	Sept., '70, #81
Chiichii Heart	チーチー-ハット	10	Nov., '70, #83

Sasaki, Mamoru & Okamoto, Satsuko (佐々木 守 & 岡本 颯子)

These two worked as a pair on an illustrated history retrospective, with Mamoru writing and Satsuko doing the art. They were on chapter 10 by the July, '66, issue, but didn't appear in every issue all the time. Generally, the chapters were 6 pages each, but could occasionally run 5 or 7 pages.

Mamoru Sasaki was a prolific TV and film screenwriter, who died in 2006. His credits include a few "Ultraman" episodes. Satsuko is an established illustrator, with a long credit list on the Japanese wiki. The main hits in English are for some children's book work that she did. She was also apparently Sampei Shirato's younger sister, and did the illustrations on a story Ri Haruko (Sampei's wife) submitted to Garo back in 1965.

Japan Ninja Arts Legend	日本忍法伝		various
The New Old Chronicles	新日本書紀		various

Shirato, Sampei (白土三平)

It's easier to just cite the English wiki page and let you learn more about Shirato there. He was very prolific, and his "Watari" (1965) was said to have influenced the American movie "Platoon".

Kamui-den	カムイ伝		various
War	戦争	36	Dec., '66, #28

Suzuki, Ouji (鈴木翁二)

According to the Japanese wiki, Ouji Suzuki (1949-) started drawing manga while in school and finally was accepted in Garo with his debut work, "Helping Shou". After this, he was brought on as one of Shigeru Mizuki's assistants. He's credited with almost 20 titles, including "Tokyo Goodbye", "Autobike Girl", "Sea Touch", "Story of a Match" and "Twinkling Book". There's almost nothing on him in English, outside of a couple examples of his artwork. Most of his stuff (apparently including music CD covers) can still be found on www.amazon.co.jp.

Helping Shou	庄助あたりで	15	Nov., '69, #67
Boy Dream Play Compilation	少年夢遊篇	17	Feb., '70, #71
[Stirring an Egg]	[タマゴヲメグル]	14	Mar., '70, #73
Ineffective Lemonade Retreat	むこうのラムネ庵	12	Oct., '70, #82
5-Point Tanuki	五点やの狸	18	June, '71, #93

Takahashi, Takao (高橋高雄)

According to the Japanese wiki, Takao Takahashi is the birth name of the manga artist who later went by the name "矢口 高雄" - Takao Yaguchi. Yaguchi (1939-) was an essayist as well as an artist, and his most famous work was "Sampei the fisherman". "Lingering Song" is very reminiscent of Sampei Shirato's work, especially in the designs of the young girl. The older men look like they may have come from Golgo 13. Just simply looking at the cover art for "Sampei the Fisherman", there's nothing of that playfulness in "Sampei" in "Lingering Song". The German Aniki Info page indicates that "Lingering Song" was Yaguchi's debut work. Interestingly, while Yaguchi and "Sampei the fisherman" are very popular in Japan, very little about them has been written up in English. As of right now, there's no English wiki page on him.

Lingering Song	長持唄考	16	Apr., '69, #58
One Night	ひとつねた	15	July, '69, #62
Dragonfly Neighborhood	赤とんぼの里	30	Dec., '69, #69
Kitsune Home Village	狐の棲む里	25	Apr., '70, #74
Minaguro	みなぐろ	36	Sept., '70, #81

Takita, Yuu (滝田ゆう)

Yuu (1932-1990) actually made a cameo appearance in Kunio Nagatani's "Aho-shiki", a parody of Yoshiharu Tsuge's "Neji-shiki". He's identified on the Japanese wiki as an artist and essayist, but there's not a lot of credits for manga under his own name. He debuted in 1952 with "Quiz Manga". He was the featured subject for an analysis by Junzou Ishiko in Garo issue #44, and he was considered an influential gekiga artist by the curators of the "300 Years of Manga" exhibit that had been held at the Kawasaki Museum at the end of the 1990's. In the book "Tokiwa Sou Playback", one of the Tokiwa Manor artists, Naoya Moriyasu, identifies Yuu as having been an assistant of Suiho Tagawa (creator of "Norakuro", who'd also trained Machiko Hasegawa, creator of "Sazae-san".)

Foot Soldier	あしがる	11	Apr., '67, #32
Drip	しずく	12	May, '67, #33
Kawarimi (Lightness of Foot)	かわりみ	16	June, '67, #34
こわめし (Red Rice))	赤飯	13	July, '67, #35
Fair Play	ふぇあ ぷれい	15	Aug., '67, #36
Wind Monk	風法師	18	Sept., '67, #37
Topknot Omnibus	Chonmage Omnibus	17	Oct., '67, #38
Delusions Beneath the Midday Sun	昼下りの妄想	18	Nov., '67, #39
Record of Speed to Death	死に急ぎの記録	12	Dec., '67, #40
A Storyteller's Death in Vietnam	浪曲師ベトナムに死す	18	Jan., '68, #41
The Long Road	長い道	8	Jan., '68, #41
3rd Class Ouyama Sansuke's Depression	三等陸尉凹山三助の憂欝	19	Feb., '68, #42
Okotsu Rhapsody	おこつ狂想曲	18	Mar., '68, #43
Lalala Lovers	ラララの恋人	21	Apr., '68, #44
Island Solitude	孤独の島	10	May, '68, #45
The Last Ikakeya	最後の鋳掛屋	16	May, '68, #45
Sucharaka-chan	すちゃらかちゃん	21	June, '68, #46
Stuffed Animal Mansion	剥製の館	12	July, '68, #48
Priest's Day Off	神父の休日	22	Aug., '68, #49
Pedigree of a Rumor	うわさの系譜	5	Aug., '68, #49
Sanrin-bou	さんりんぼう	0	Sept., '68, #50
Laugh!!!	ワラッテ!!!	0	Sept., '68, #50
Tofu Seller Blues	豆腐屋ブルース	0	Oct., '68, #52
Rotary	ロータリー	0	Oct., '68, #52
The Impermanance of Worldly Things	諸行無常	0	Oct., '68, #52
Shouko Atomaki's Decision	後巻咲子の決断	16	Nov., '68, #53
Rotary	Rotary	1	Nov., '68, #53
A Woman's World	彼女の世界	8	Nov., '68, #53
Gin Nagashi	ぎんながし	32	Dec., '68, #54
Tooth Blackening Water Ditch	おはぐろどぶ	35	Jan., '69, #55
Fresh Brown Rice Bread	げんまいパンのホヤホヤ	36	Feb., '69, #56
Dry Weather Geta	日和下駄	34	Mar., '69, #57
Concerning manga "passions"	マンガの"情念"をめぐって	6	Mar., '69, #57
Edison Band	エジソンバンド	34	Apr., '69, #58
The Time of the Flower Tempest	花あらしの頃	34	June, '69, #61
Pretentious Mirror	うぬぼれ鏡	34	July, '69, #62
The Story of the Manko-ya Incident	萬古屋事件始末	35	Aug., '69, #64
Enga Mimi Tongatta	えんがみみとんがった	34	Sept., '69, #65
Revisiting "Terajima Neighborhood Mystery Story"	"寺島町奇譚"をめぐって	8	Sept., '69, #65
Hot Bamboo Screen	カンカン簾	33	Oct., '69, #66
Escaped	ぬけられます	26	Nov., '69, #67
Sadakuro's Lipstick	定九郎の口紅	40	Jan., '70, #70
Common Death	平凡死	8	Feb., '70, #71
Look up to Nobility	仰げば尊し	33	July, '70, #78
Homeless Dump Dog	ゴミタメ無宿の一匹ワンワン	2	Dec., '70, #84

Takuo, Yasuda (やすだ たくお)

IMDB lists writer, director and producer credits for Takuo Yasuda (やすだ たくお) on the films "Artful Dodgers", "Does Your Soul Have a Cold?", and "Eric Clapton: Sessions for Robert J". There's almost nothing in the Japanese pages for やすだ たくお, although there are a few hits on 保田卓夫, which is pronounced the same. No Japanese wiki page though. So it's possible that this Garo manga artist and the director/writer on "Artful Dodgers" aren't the same person, or that やすだ たくお was his pen name. It's also possible that they are the same person, being stalked by a priest with a shamisen.

Crime of Awareness

罪の意識

12

Sept., '67, #37

Tashiro, Tamehiro (田代為寛)

Tamehiro Tashiro was apparently the pen name for Shintarou Tashiro. Shintarou's homepage does include "Space Event" in the "early works" section. However, his later art style is completely different, and aimed more towards children. From his works index page, click the links to see sample pages from each title.

Space Event	宇宙の出来事	19	Aug., '66, #24
The Mysterious Ball	不思議な球	8	Apr., '67, #32
Indian Treasure	インドの宝	14	July, '68, #48
Our Space Aliens	ぼくら宇宙人	14	June, '69, #61
Painful Evening	痛かった夕暮れ	7	Nov., '69, #67
It's There	そこにいる	24	Aug., '70, #79

Tatsumi, Yoshihiro (辰巳ヨシヒロ)

Yoshihiro Tatsumi (1935-) is credited with being the person that coined the word "gekiga" (dramatic pictures) and is in at least one way responsible for the creation of Garo, in as much that this magazine was created to give an outlet to gekiga manga. He's been translated by Drawn&Quarterly, and his most well-known story in the west may be his A Drifting Life.

Scorpion	さそり	20	Feb., '70, #71
Hole	あな	20	Mar., '70, #73
Crossroad	わかれみち	24	Apr., '70, #74
Entering	はいってます	24	June, '70, #77

Tsuge, Tadao (つげ忠男)

I have to be honest, when I saw "Vincent Van Gogh on the Hill", I thought that Yoshiharu Tsuge had drawn it, but that the art was a little off. It wasn't until I was looking at a Garo index page in Japanese for issue #55 that I finally noticed that the author name didn't match up. Now I have to go back through all of the previous Garo issues to see where else I got the credits wrong. Tadao Tsuge (1941-) is Yoshiharu's younger brother (one of two; they also have two younger half-sisters from when their mother remarried according to the Comics Journal article). Tadao is also an established artist, but not as well-known. There's one fan page showing some of his signed covers. A Japanese listing of his works can be found here.

Vincent Van Gogh on the Hill	丘の上でヴィンセント。ヴァン。ゴッホは	34	Dec., '68, #54
Longing Melody	懐かしのメロディ	23	Jan., '69, #55
Seigan Ryoukichi Running Away	青岸良吉の敗走	16	Mar., '69, #57
Showa-era Poem	昭和ご詠歌	40	Apr., '69, #58
Investigation	捜索	35	May, '69, #60
Kinako Shop's Granny	きなこ屋のばあさん	24	June, '69, #61
Dignity of Life after the War	戦後の生の重み	6	Aug., '69, #64
Rainy Season, Part 1	雨期	35	Aug., '69, #64
River with Kappas	河童の居る川	39	Sept., '69, #65
Rainy Season, Part 2	雨期	21	Oct., '69, #66
Rainy Season (End)	雨期 (完)	50	Dec., '69, #69
2 People, 3 Legs	二人三脚	25	Jan., '70, #70
Certain Scenery	或る風景	30	Feb., '70, #71
Ditch Road, Part 1	どぶ街 (掲載開始)	15	Apr., '70, #74
Ditch Road, Part 2	どぶ街	22	May, '70, #75
Ditch Road, Part 3	どぶ街	25	June, '70, #77
Ditch Road, Final Part	どぶ街	38	July, '70, #78
A Current Popular Song	いざ歌謡曲	30	Sept., '70, #81
Summer Field	野の夏	30	Oct., '70, #82
Easy-going Night	夜よゆるやかに	35	Nov., '70, #83
Idle Gossip	与太	32	Feb., '71, #87
Back West Village	うらにしの里	33	Mar., '71, #88
Villianous Neighborhood	無頼の街	33	June, '71, #93

Tsuge, Yoshiharu (つげ義春)

Yoshiharu was one of the later fixtures of Garo. He started out doing detective and action stories in the 1950's that were obviously influenced by early Tezuka manga. Later, he got into a relationship and when it broke up, he stopped drawing manga and tried killing himself. When the editors at Garo heard about this, they ran a sidebar asking Tsuge to contact them. He did, and began working as Shigeru Mizuki's assistant. He would run one of his own short stories in Garo every few months. The most famous of which, "Neji-shiki" (Screw-style) was adapted into a live action film known in the U.S. as "Screwed". His stories tend to plumb the depths of human nature as fits the original definition of "gekiga" - "dramatic pictures". He did eventually drop out of manga and hasn't drawn since 1986.

The Boy and the Old Book	古本と少年	23	Sept., '66, #25
Handcuffs	手錠	18	Dec., '66, #28
All-Night Wake	通夜	10	Mar., '67, #31
Salamander	山椒魚	8	May, '67, #33
Sumomo's Family	李さん一家	12	June, '67, #34
Mountain Pass Dog	峠の犬	12	Aug., '67, #36
Scenes on a Beach	海辺の叙景	27	Sept., '67, #37
Red Flower	紅い花	16	Oct., '67, #38
Nishibu Tamura Incident	西部田村事件	18	Dec., '67, #40
Chouhatchi Lodge	長八の宿	24	Jan., '68, #41
Futamata Keikoku	二岐溪谷	18	Feb., '68, #42
Korean floor heater cabin	オンドル小屋	21	Apr., '68, #44
Ben-san of Honyara Grotto	ほんやら洞のべんさん	28	June, '68, #46
The Head of Gensenkan Household	ゲンセンカン主人	29	July, '68, #48
Mokkiri Shop Girl	もっきり屋の少女	16	Aug., '68, #49
General Public Word Manga	大衆-ことば-マンガ	6	Jan., '69, #55
Weeping Willow Shopkeeper (First Half)	やなぎ屋主人 (掲載開始)	17	Feb., '70, #71
Weeping Willow Shopkeeper (Second Half)	やなぎ屋主人 (掲載終了)	24	Mar., '70, #73
Swinging Kyoto Diary	京都ブラブラ日記	2	June, '70, #77

Tsurita, Kuniko (つりた くにこ)

Kuniko (1948-1985) started right after the editors asked for reader submissions. She went on to establish herself as a manga artist in her own right. She tended to alternate between silly gags with cameo appearances by Shigeru Mizuki and Akira Ogawa, but then she'd follow that with more serious stories like "Woman".

Apparently due to the popularity of the 2010 NHK drama series "Gegege no Nyobo" ("Wife of Gegege"), which is based on a book written by Shigeru Mizuki's wife, Kuniko Tsurita has become more visible as well (not sure of the connection here, though). In any event, a more complete write-up on Kuniko recently appeared on a Japanese blog in July, 2010. She debuted in the Sept., 1965, issue of Garo, and continued writing primarily for Garo up until Nov., 1980. There's some indication that she worked briefly in Mizuki Productions doing work on background art. She's connected to radical shojo artist Fumiko Okada (1945-2005) in some way, but the details on this aren't clear to me.

One other fan page has a profile on her, but it is in Japanese only.

L.Miserable	L.ミゼラブル	11	July, '66, #23
The Sound of Impermanence	諸行無常有響	14	Aug., '66, #24
Nonsense	ノンセンス	16	Oct., '66, #26
Woman	女	24	Nov., '66, #27
A Story Like This	こんな話	19	Dec., '66, #28
Anti	アンチ	12	Feb., '67, #30
Strife for Life?	生きるための闘争?	12	Mar., '67, #31
Struggle	あがき	10	Apr., '67, #32
Jinroku	ジンロク	16	July, '67, #35
Himeko Rokunomiya's Tragedy	六の宮姫子の悲劇	15	Aug., '67, #36
(Sumomo's Family) After That	(李さん一家) それから	12	Sept., '67, #37
Escape to Glory	栄光への脱出	19	Oct., '67, #38
Lunatic's Diary	狂人日記	16	Nov., '67, #39
Madam Haruko: Misfortune of Corruption	悪徳の不幸	26	Feb., '68, #42
Madam Haruko: Glory of Virtue	美徳の栄え	24	Mar., '68, #43
Madam Haruko: Journals of the Trip to the Space Alien's Country	宇宙人国旅行記	35	May, '68, #45
Sound	音	14	Mar., '69, #57
Mizo	溝	15	June, '69, #61
Brave Bloody Battle of Mutokoku Chronicles	壮烈無土国血戦記		various
Armadillo	アルマジロ	13	Jan., '70, #70
Misfortune	災難	16	July, '70, #78

Ueno, Koshi (上野昂志)

Koshi is the oddball of the bunch. Each issue, he'd run a 2-page essay, usually political commentary on different topics of the day, such as government responsibility, or the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Koshi had worked as a journalist and/or critic, and has a series of blog entries for the Asahi Shimbun. As of 2008, he was the president of the Japan Journalist College.

Perfect Government Crime	政治の完全犯罪について		various
Journalism in Vietnam	ジャーナリズムの中のヴェトナム		various
What is Healthy Commonsense?	健全なる常識とは何か		various
Theory of Military Security	安全保障の逆説		various
Function and Motion	『行事』と『運動』		various
Fitting the No-Face Woman	ノッペラボーについて		various
To Explain Political Morality, Mass Media Morality	政治の道義を説くマスコミの道義		various
Trick of the Illusion	幻想のカラクリ		various
About the Humanity of Humans	人間らしい人間について		various
Comedy and Tragedy	喜劇と悲劇		various
About Words	言葉について		various
About "Defense"	防衛』について		various
On Becoming Powerless	無力ということについて		various
Japanese	日本人		various
About Sanctuary	聖域について		various
About "Peace"	『ピース』について		various
Nonsense is as Nonsense Does!	イヌナンセンスにはイヌナンセンスを！		various
Soushi Bushi	壮士節		various
Noon's Death	自昼の死		various
"Sidewalk and Street 'Democracy'"	"歩道と車道の「民主主義」"		various
Alternating Normalacy and Strangeness	"「平常」と「異常」の隔り"		various
From "citizens" to "rubber neckers"	「市民」から「野次馬」へ		various
Monopoly on Casualties	死者の独占		various
"A very reasonable word"	「入れるべきところへ突っ込まれた言葉」		various
A question for journalists	「報道者の問われていること」		various
"When the road came"	「いつか来た道」		various
"About Honor"	顔について		various
From Money as Art to Courtroom as Art	オブジェの紙幣から法廷のオブジェへ		various
"Ignorance and Blind Faith"	「蒙昧と雷同」		various
"About not writing"	「書けないということについて」		various
About "Rioting"	[騒乱]について		various
To face the "one character decision"	[断の一字]に対して		various
"Change", or maybe "the immutable"	[変化]とは、あるいは[不変]とは		various
What's "too easy"? A look 1 Year after the Todai Strife	何が"甘い"のか　東大闘争1周年をむかえて		various
About "Baracade"	"バリケードについて"		various
The Logic of Denial of "School"	"学校"否定の論理		various
About the Clarity of Words	言葉の明快さについて		various
About Hiding "a high school education" Under a Chinstrap	徽章をあごひもで隠して[高校教育]について	2	Jan., '70, #70
About Retribution	報復について	2	Apr., '70, #74
A Thirst for Blood from the Call of Kotetsu	呼び出し小鉄から血に飢えた虎徹へ	2	July, '70, #78
Preserving Language	囲われたことば	2	Oct., '70, #82
"Distinguished Like the Emperor"	"テンノウヘイカのように偉い"	2	Jan., '71, #86
Polyethylene Bucket Scenery	ポリバケツのある風景	2	Apr., '71, #90
Outspoken Season	露骨の季節	2	July, '71, #95

Yamada, Murasaki (やまだ紫)

Murasaki Yamada (real name Mitsuko Shiratori, 1948-2009) was a feminist essayist, poet and manga artist. According to the wiki page, she contributed fairly heavily to Garo, but "Ah, Seken-sama" marks her first appearance here in Feb., 1971. Her real debut was in COM, in 1969. Her assistants included manga artists Hinako Sugiura and Yoko Kondo. She is regarded by Fred Schodt as a standout for her feminist message in a sea of shojo.

Ah, Seken-sama

ああせけんさま

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Feb., '71, #87

Yodogawa, Sanpo (淀川さんぽ)

"Yodogawa Sampo" is a parody of "Edogawa Rampo", which in turn was adopted by a mystery writer using the Japanized version of "Edgar Allan Poe". Little is written on Sampo, but he goes on to be a regular contributor for Garo for at least the next 2 years. Actually, there are a couple Japanese fan pages dedicated to him, but it's hard to get useful information from them. "Shonen" (Boy) was his debut work.

Boy	少年	28	Sept., '69, #65
Health Inspection	身体検査	18	Dec., '69, #69
Surreal Event	シュールな出来事	32	Mar., '70, #73
The Boy Who Turned into an Octopus	たこになった少年	26	June, '70, #77
Red Riding Hood, Part 1	赤ずきんちゃん	23	Dec., '70, #84
Red Riding Hood, Part 2	赤ずきんちゃん	32	Jan., '71, #86
Mystery Man M and the Boy's Dective Club	怪人Mと少年探偵団		various
Mystery Man M and the Boy's Detective Club	怪人Mと少年探偵団		various

Artists that have only appeared a few times in Garo and don't seem to have credits given for other stories elsewhere. In order of appearance.

Namiki, Tatsuji	並木達二	Silent Comics	Silent Comics	5	July, '66, #23
Suzuki, Shigeru	鈴木茂	Whose Fatherland is This?	祖国は誰のものぞ	29	Aug., '66, #24
Takeyama, Norihiro	竹山ノリヒロ	BEM	ベム	10	Aug., '66, #24
Shigeaki, Tsuge	柘植茂晃	Amoeba	アメーバ	10	Aug., '66, #24
Sawada, Tomohiro	沢田ともひろ	Repelling Peace	反発の平和	10	Nov., '66, #27
Itagaki, Nobuo	イタガキノブオ	Human Body Club	人体倶楽部	14	Feb., '88, #282
Azuma, Gen	東元	Higan Hana	悲願蕈	15	Feb., '88, #282
Tsuno, Yuuko	津野裕子	The Setting Sun is Behind the Clouds	落日は雲の奥	21	Feb., '88, #282
Takeda, Ken	武田謙	Risan Rou	李三老	3	Feb., '88, #282
Ohshiba, Haruko	大黄莱 春子	There's Lots of Kinds, Right?	みんないろいろあるわよね	15	Feb., '88, #282
Gotou, Kiyoshi	後藤清	Konta and Ponta's Story	コンタとポンタの物語	12	Feb., '88, #282
Ishikawa, Jirou	石川次郎	Weak Road	柔の道	13	Feb., '88, #282
Koushin, Tarou	高信太郎	Koushin's 4 Panels	コーシンの4P	4	Feb., '88, #282
Yomota, Inuhiko	四方田犬彦	If a Dog Also Walks	犬も歩けば	2	Feb., '88, #282
Matsumoto, Michio	松本充代	A Promise to Heaven	天上の精神にお約束、して	15	Feb., '88, #282
Uchida, Shungiku	内田春菊	The Employee's Trip is 3 Days and 2 Nights	社員旅行は二泊三日	16	Feb., '88, #282
Ebisu, Yoshikazu	蛭子能収	Winter Traveller	冬の旅人	8	Feb., '88, #282
Sugisaku, Jeitarou	杉作J太郎	Dead Man	死んだ男	7	Feb., '88, #282
Izumi, Masayuki	泉昌之	Messed Up Butt	狂った肛門	10	Feb., '88, #282
Miura, Jun	みうらじゅん	Kamen Rider over there is BLACK	仮面ライダーあそこがBLACK	8	Feb., '88, #282
Tori, Miki	とりみき	Construction Sign Counterattack	路上観察物件の逆襲	10	Feb., '88, #282
Nemoto, Takashi	根本敬	Spontaneity	天然	20	Feb., '88, #282
To, 24	渡二十四	Runaway	逃亡者	12	Feb., '67, #30
Yamamoto, Ikuo	山本いくお	Pickpocket	スリ	7	Apr., '67, #32
Masuda, Kazuo	升田かずお	Manga Revolution	マンガ革命	14	June, '67, #34
Masuda, Yoshiharu	舛田義春	Difference in Point of View	見解の相違	5	Aug., '67, #36
Ashibetsu, Osamu	あしべつおさむ	Bicycle Thief	自転車泥棒	13	Oct., '67, #38
To, 24	渡二十四	Endless Afternoon	終りなき午後	25	Nov., '67, #39
Toyoshima, Masao	豊島雅男	Insomnia	不眠症	14	Nov., '67, #39
Kashiyama, Noboru	かしやま のぼる	Drifting	漂流	10	Dec., '67, #40
Ishiko, Junzou	石子順造	Appreciating Anti-Manga	存知論的反マンガ	4	Feb., '68, #42
Morimoto, Tetsuhiro	森本哲弘	Steam Whistle	汽笛	18	Mar., '68, #43
Seto, Midumi	せとみづみ	Time of the Sun	太陽の時	12	Apr., '68, #44
Ishiko, Junzou	石子順造	Takita Yuu Note, A Moralist General Public Phenomenon	滝田ゆう論ノート モラリストの大衆象	4	Apr., '68, #44
Harada, Takako	原田孝子	The Petite Pooch	The Petit プチ	10	July, '68, #48
Sayuuda, Honda	左右田本多	Yoshiharu Tsuge's Distant Letter	つげ義春への遠方からの手紙	2	Aug., '68, #49
Akasaka, Ichiro	赤坂一郎	Goddess Tsukiko	月子観音	20	Aug., '68, #49
Akasaka, Ichiro	赤坂一郎	Wind Chime Tree	風鈴の木	0	Oct., '68, #52
Morimoto, Tetsuhiro	森本哲弘	White Sand	白い砂	18	Nov., '68, #53
Hiroo, Satsu	ヒロヲ-サツ	Distant Memories	思えばとおく	27	May, '69, #60
Iwata, Jirou	岩田二郎	Children's Reading Materials and One's Own Affairs	児童読み物と自己状況	2	July, '69, #62
Nomoto, Sankichi	野本三吉	"Troubled Times" in the Liberated Zone	"乱世"における解放区	2	Sept., '69, #65
Hoshikawa, Teppu	星川てっぷ	Bun bun bun	ぶんぶんぶん	8	Sept., '69, #65
Hoshikawa, Teppu	星川てっぷ	Clip Clop	タッタカターンスッタッタ	8	Oct., '69, #66
Iwata, Jirou	岩田二郎	Questioning the trend to "the sky"	[空しさ]の方向性を問う	2	Nov., '69, #67
Nomoto, Sankichi	野本三吉	Hearing the Song of "Naked People"	[裸族]の歌が聞える	2	Dec., '69, #69
Nakamura, Hiroshi	中村宏	Manga that Sets Manga Free	マンガを解放するマンガ	6	Dec., '69, #69
Hagi	巴義	Hagi's Creation Collection	巴義 作品集	6	Dec., '69, #69
Morimachi, Nagako	森町長子	Hoppusu Teppu Janbu	ほっぷすてっぷじゃんぷ	12	Jan., '70, #70
Iwata, Jirou	岩田二郎	Experience of War, versus Post-War Intentions	戦争体験と戦後精神	2	Feb., '70, #71
Nomoto, Sankichi	野本三吉	Towards an Explosion-Free Self	爆破-不在の自己へ	2	Mar., '70, #73
Taniguchi, Masakazu	谷口正和	[No Title]	[タイトルはありません]	0	Mar., '70, #73
Iwata, Jirou	岩田二郎	Discussing Freedom of the Press	[言論-出版の自由]とは	2	May, '70, #75
Nomoto, Sankichi	野本三吉	Returning to the Beginning	始原への回帰	2	June, '70, #77
Fujii, Tsutomu	藤井勉	Perpetual Snow	万年雪	22	June, '70, #77
Kitagawa, Yukiko	北川由紀子	Boy and Girl	少年と少女	12	July, '70, #78
Iwata, Jirou	岩田二郎	About the Heart of People Within the Darkness	闇の中の大衆のこころについて	2	Aug., '70, #79
Akiyama, Kiyoshi	秋山清	Distant Dream	はるかな夢	5	Aug., '70, #79
Hoshikawa, Tada	星川忠	Investigator	捜索者	6	Aug., '70, #79
Nomoto, Sankichi	野本三吉	The Sound of Cold Handcuffs at that Time	その時冷たい手錠の響き	2	Sept., '70, #81
Akiyama, Kiyoshi	秋山清	Distant Dream	はるかな夢	5	Sept., '70, #81
Amano, Toshio	天野としお	Somewhere Today, Too	今日もどこかで.	4	Sept., '70, #81
Akiyama, Kiyoshi	秋山清	Distant Dream	はるかな夢	6	Oct., '70, #82
Iwata, Jirou	岩田二郎	The Cruelty and Stupidity of "Fatherland Japan".	"祖国日本"の冷酷さ愚劣さ	2	Nov., '70, #83
Akiyama, Kiyoshi	秋山清	Distant Dream	はるかな夢	5	Nov., '70, #83
Hoshikawa, Tada	星川忠	Eviction	立退き	14	Nov., '70, #83
Nomoto, Sankichi	野本三吉	"Collective Community" Liberated Women	女性を解放した"共同体"	2	Dec., '70, #84
Akiyama, Kiyoshi	秋山清	Distant Dream	はるかな夢	5	Dec., '70, #84
Kitagawa, Yukiko	北川由紀子	Cicada Chirping	蝉の鳴く	7	Jan., '71, #86
Iwata, Jirou	岩田二郎	Depending on Other's Kindness	自然への甘え	2	Feb., '71, #87
Nomoto, Sankichi	野本三吉	Doctrine for Our Long Life	われらが生きのびる道を教えよ	2	Mar., '71, #88
Tanase, Tetsuo	棚瀬哲夫	Starting Out With Something Not Manga	はじめに漫画的でないものとして	10	Mar., '71, #88
Iwata, Jirou	岩田二郎	What Would be Good to Call Out?	なんと呼んだらいいのだろうか	2	May, '71, #92
Hoshikawa, Tadashi	星川正	Hello, Goodbye	こんにちわさようなら	13	May, '71, #92
Fujii, Tsutomu	藤井勉	A Couple in the Fall	秋にはふたありで	30	May, '71, #92
Nomoto, Sankichi	野本三吉	Why No Criminal?	なぜ未犯罪者なのか　[爆破-人間原型論序説]をめぐって	7	June, '71, #93
Hoshikawa, Tada	星川忠	Dog!	犬ッ！	9	July, '71, #95

Additional References:

Garo Encyclopedia
Garo Chronicle
Garo Index at Champroo