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(C) 1978-2000 Mitsuru Sugaya
- Manga (Comics) Career of Mitsuru Sugaya
- Mitsuru Sugaya was born in 1950 at Fuji-City, foot of Mt. Fuji in Japan. He started to draw Manga when he was 12 years old and hope to be a Manga artist.
- After graduated high-school, he works as assistant staff of a Manga in 1969, then debuted as independent Manga artist in 1972 when he was 21 years old.
- First comics was The Kamen Rider (Maskman Rider,) original comics was written and drawn by Sugaya's master Shotaro Ishinomori.
- After drawing many Mangas for Japanese kids' magazines, he drew first ever video game fighter comic The Game-center Arashifor The Coro Coro Comic magazine from Shogakukan, one of the top Japanese publishers.
- In 1983, Mitsuru Sugaya won the 28th Shogakukan Manga Award by The Game-center Arashi and The Hello! PC which is first Manga (comic) text book for BASIC programming. Sugaya has been enjoying amateur ham radio since junior high-school age and like to visit Akihabara, electronic town in Tokyo. So he enjoyed personal computers since one-board micro computers were introduced in Japan.
- Then Sugaya started to write and draw many business information comics for businessmen, including The Ichiban Wakariyasui Kabu Nyumon (The most easiest learning; How to sell/buy stocks) from Kodansha. Since '80s, he drew many "How_to_comics," including business information, amateur ham radio, tax, computing etc.. But he almost stop to draw comics because he debuted as a fiction novel author in 1994.
Mitsuru Sugaya's Comic Books:
- Manga & Zukai, Windows 95, Rakuraku Pasokon Shin-nyumon (Comics &
Illustrations, Windows 95, New and Easy way to learn PC) from Shogakukan.
- Manga Windows 3.1 Nyumon (How to use Windows 3.1) from Gakken.
- Manga Macintosh Nyumon (How to use Macintosh) from Gakken.
- Manga MS-DOS Nyumon (How to use MS-DOS) from Gakken.
- Manga Lotus 1-2-3 Nyumon (How to use Lotus 1-2-3) from Gakken.
- Manga-ban Ham Nyumon (Text book in comics for examination of amateur ham radio) from CQ Shuppansha.
- Manga Ichitaro 6.3 Nyumon (How to use Ichitaro 6.3) from Gakken.
- Manga Ichitaro 7 Nyumon (How to use Ichitaro 7) from Gakken.
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