Shuimumao

Shuimumao

Shuimumao, formerly known as Wu Liangmao, was born in 1922 in the city of Hong Kong in Tottori County, Japan. The new generation of comic fans may not know much about him, but his stories and characters have really influenced generations of comic fans. Shuimu Mao is the first person in Japanese ghost comics. He is the ancestor of strange talk series, one of the oldest cartoonists, and the original author of a generation of comics classic "ghost taro".

In his nearly 50 years of cartoon career, although his output is not much, the scope involved is very diverse. Most of his works are based on monster stories, including war, science fiction, humor and other subjects, nicknamed Dr. monster.

He died of multiple organ dysfunction at a Tokyo Hospital at 7:18 a.m. on November 30, 2015 at the age of 93.

Character experience

childhood

Shuimu Mao was born in Jinggang city near the sea in Tottori Prefecture, Japan. At that time, he was a silent baby who could not speak until he was 4 years old. His first words were "cat's stool" (ネコのパパ).

Shuimumao is a person who has a good appetite when he is a child, so he is called "shuimumao" when he is a child

ズイダ

"Yes, I have.". He is often referred to by his playmates nearby as

ゲゲ

」。

Shuimu Mao's interest in monsters comes from a nearby "ghost mother-in-law" when he was a child（

のんのんばあ

）The influence of the old woman. When she was young, she used to be a maid in Shuimu Mao's family. When she was old, she often came to take care of Shuimu Mao because her husband and adopted son died. The ghost mother-in-law often tells Shuimu Mao about the legends of monsters in the countryside and the hell world after death, which makes Shuimu Mao have a special curiosity about "death" when he was a child. Therefore, Shuimu Mao once made a desolate case that he would press his brother into the water to see what reaction he would have after death (finally, he was stopped by the adults who passed by). The ghost mother-in-law finally died of tuberculosis in the fifth grade of shuimumao primary school.

In primary school, shuimumao often spent time playing and competing with his peers to be the king of children, so his studies were not ideal. At that time, under the pseudonym of "Mao tie", he created his own works such as "Tian Kun Tong painting collection" and "Mao tie Yan painting collection". When he was promoted to a primary school, he also took his oil paintings to the citizens' Museum in Mizi city to hold a personal painting exhibition under the advice of his tutor, Mr. youmu Moxiong. Afterwards, the local newspaper specially published a news praising him for his talent in painting.

Youth

As a teenager, shuimumao had shown outstanding talent in painting. At the age of 13, he held his first solo painting exhibition under the arrangement of his teacher. During the Second World War, after the loss of his left hand in new pulidin, Indonesia, his persistence in painting did not diminish, on the contrary, it became more firm. The wedge machine that really determined him to take painting as his career was a move in 50 years. At that time, Shuimu Mao, who was 28 years old, moved into an apartment called "Shuimu village" in shuimutong, Kobe. In his apartment, a painter named zhizhiju, who was popular in Japan in the 1950s and told stories in the form of pictures, let him first come into contact with the painting creation in this form, which was close to caricature. A year later, his works with monsters as the theme were taken to zhizhiju stage by the painting society, so he worked as a painter in zhizhiju for seven years until 1957.

youth

Shuimu Mao, who graduated from primary school, was unable to enter a higher school because of his poor grades, so he changed to a two-year higher education primary school. After graduating from higher education, he went to work in Osaka's printing factory and printmaking agency, but they all stayed for a short time. After that, he studied in Osaka, where only one tutor (at the same time being president and Professor) was the "elite Academy of Fine Arts". Later, he planned to get "Osaka Prefectural horticulture school" and failed. (at that time, 51 of the 50 students in the horticultural school came to take the exam, and shuimumao was the only one who failed)

Because the school entrance examination is not smooth, shuimumao did Panasonic electrical appliances, or newspaper workers. At the age of 18, he was admitted to the Mining Department of the Japanese mining school by working part-time in the newspaper office, but he dropped out of school after half a year due to lack of interest. At that time, during the period of World War II, he was afraid that he would die after being drafted into the battlefield, so he began to read some books about the meaning and philosophy of life, among which shuimumao especially preferred Ekman（

JohannPeterEckermann

）Goethe's dialogue（

GesprächemitGoethe

）。

Service period

In 1943, 21-year-old shuimumao was summoned to serve as a soldier in the birdsong company. During this period, he used to be a trumpet signaler in the army, but he asked the officer above for a transfer unit because of his poor performance. Later, when the officer asked him whether he wanted to transfer to the north or the south, Shuimu Mao chose the South and was sent to labour port in New Britain. (but the reason why shuimumao chose the south at that time was purely "warmer")

Some days after arriving at labour port, shuimumao became infected with local malaria and lay in a hospital bed. A few days after he became infected with malaria, Shuimu Mao was hit on his left arm by an enemy air attack on his bed. At that time, the military doctors were supposed to use blood transfusion for him in the rescue, but Shuimu Mao forgot his blood type at the moment and had to control the injury by hemostasis. Later, his left arm deteriorated to a serious degree and had to be removed, so Shuimu Mao lost his left arm.

During a period of convalescence after losing his left arm, shuimumao and the local residents

Tolai family

They began to have contact with each other. After the end of the Second World War in 1945, he returned to China at labour port.

Returning home after the war

After returning home, Shuimu Mao worked as a fish market worker and a tricycle driver. Later, when he came home from Tokyo, he stayed in a house in Kobe temporarily on the way. He was persuaded by the owner of the house to buy the house for 200000 days. Later, shuimumao named the house "shuimuzhuang" after the name of "shuimutong" in the district and began to operate the apartment.

Playwright period

At that time, in shuimuzhuang apartment, a tenant named Kubota was working as a writer of comic series (zhizhiju). He explained to shuimumao how to make comic series and introduced him to the president of his comic series company, Suzuki Shengxiong. When Suzuki and Shuimu Mao met, they used to call him "Mr. Shuimu" instead of "Wu Liangmao", which made Shuimu Mao not use his original name "Wu Liangmao" but "Mr. Shuimu"

Shuimumao

Such a pseudonym.

In 1951, Shuimu Mao began to become a comic strip playwright. During this period, Shuimu Mao wrote the following works

Yuan-ti

」、「

Empty handed ghost taro

」、「

ガロア

」、「

He Tong San Ping

Later, he became the predecessor of his representative works "ghost taro" and "river boy Sanping".

Cartoonist period

A few years later, because of the gradual rise of television among the people, the comic drama industry began to decline. Shuimumao went to Tokyo and began to work as a loan cartoonist. Most of Shuimu Mao's works during the period of loan book cartoonists tend to be sci-fi or weird story style. As the "rocket man" published in the moon rabbit study in 1958, she was a virgin（

ロケットマン

）During this period, the plot works of strange stories include "strange cat girl"（

Strange cat

）"Water of hell"（

Water in hell

）And so on. In 1959, there was the representative work of the period of loaning this cartoon "the war of the youth."（

The story of youth

）Series.

After the success of the sales of the chronicles of youth in 1960, the yuetu study made Shuimu Mao's monthly magazine with a weird and amazing style

Strange and evil

The first loan work of the series "ghost taro in the cemetery" was published in the first issue

The youpei family

」。 After that, Yaoqi was not enthusiastic about the market reaction. When she was about to be cut off, she received a letter encouraging readers to continue to serialize the ghost taro Series in Yaoqi's graveyard. Later, due to a financial dispute with yuetu study, Shuimu Mao turned to Sanyo society to publish ghost Taro's works. A few years later, Sanyo society closed down. Shuimu Mao reconciled with yuetu study and went back to the previous study society to create. In 1961, he published the loan comic series of "Hetong Sanping".

In 1963, shuimumao published another masterpiece "demon king"（

The devil

）At that time, the original plan was to release 5 episodes, but it was still released until the end of 3 episodes.

In 1965, the "green forest hall" produced the

Monthly cartoon

At that time, the comic magazine hired Shuimu Mao to publish his works for 500 yen a page, which gave him the opportunity to receive a better fee than the loan of a comic book. The next year, he published "TV king" in "other books, youth magazine"（

テレビくん

）From the original loan cartoonist to comic weekly serial writer, let shuimumao began to gradually get rid of poverty, and toward a period of mass creation. He also won Shuimu Mao the first honor of his career as a cartoonist -- the sixth children's cartoon award of the talk club.

On August 1 of the same year, the first work of GUI taro in comic weekly was published in magazine

hand

」。 The following year, in 1966, he Tong Sanping and demon king, the works of the loan comic period, were reproduced and published. On October 6, the album of demon king, written and performed by real people, began to be released on TV.

In 1968, from

Ghost taro in graveyard

"To be renamed"

The ghost taro

The animated film collection of the movie was released on TV, which started to trigger the monster boom at that time. After that, shuimumao's most representative cartoon works

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