About Taiyō Matsumoto
Taiyō Matsumoto (Japanese: 松本 大洋, Hepburn: Matsumoto Taiyō; born October 25, 1967) is a Japanese manga artist. Active as a professional manga artist since the 1980s, he is known for his experimental style and genre-blending works such as Tekkonkinkreet, Ping Pong, and No. 5. Influenced by Katsuhiro Otomo and French bande dessinée, his art combines psychological depth with rough, expressive lines. Matsumoto has won multiple awards, including the Eisner Award and Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. == Career == Matsumoto was born in Tokyo. Originally, he wanted to become a soccer player. but changed to artist as an occupation instead after reading Katsuhiro Otomo's Domu: A Child's Dream. While studying literature at Wako University, he started drawing manga. He was an admirer of the manga artist Seiki Tsuchida and sent his work to the newcomer contest Comic Open of Kodansha's magazine Morning that Tsuchida was working for.
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