He died the famous Japanese cartoonist Shigeru Mizuki – Terra Chile

The Japanese comic artist Shigeru Mizuki, famous for his works of historical and supernatural creatures and autobiographical stories, died today in Tokyo at the age of 93, reported public broadcaster NHK Japanese broadcasting.

His death, which has occurred in a hospital in the Japanese capital, was due to heart failure, as detailed NHK.

While born in 1922 in the city of Osaka, his name is closely linked to the coastal town of Sakaiminato, Tottori prefecture (western Japan), where he grew up.

As drafted during the Pacific War was intended to Papua New Guinea, where the conflict lived in first person and lost his left arm.

After returning to Japan and operate various businesses for a decade, he started in comics in 1957 after learning to draw with the right hand (Mizuki was originally handed).

Shortly after his most successful work arose, “Ge-ge-ge no Kitaro”, focused on the world of “yokai” supernatural creatures of Japanese folklore whose stories of child listened with great passion mouth of an elderly Sakaiminato which NonNonBa affectionately called.

The striking and vast supernatural world that Mizuki grew out of these stories is reflected in works like “Kitaro”, “NonNonBa” or “3, Street of Mysteries”, published in Spanish by Astiberri that edited most of his works translated into Castilian.

The same house also published his autobiography, collected in six volumes, or raw “Operation Death”, which recounts his experience in Papua New Guinea during the war.

They also highlight the rigorous biography he made about Adolf Hitler (published in Spanish by Editors Comics) or chronic Japan of the Showa era (1926-1989), lucid and necessary reflection on the origins and consequences of the brutal Japanese colonial expansion in Asia is unprecedented in Castilian.

In his later years still drew Mizuki, although only published sporadically in magazines “yokai”.

For years the city of Sakaiminato decided to honor your figure with opening a museum dedicated to his life and work, naming a street in his honor or a hundred erecting statues of their characters in the locality.