Keiichi Koike

Keiichi Koike (小池桂一, Koike Keiichi) (born in 1960) is a Japanese manga artist.

Keiichi Koike
Born1960
Tokyo
NationalityJapanese
Notable works
Ultra Heaven

Born in Tokyo, Koike won the prestigious Tezuka Award in 1976, when he was 16.[1]

His style, similar to Katsuhiro Otomo and Moebius, is marked by vivid representations of psychedelic experiences.[2]

Drugs are an important part of his inspiration: "Except peyotl, I have tried almost everything: hashish, heroin, cocain, acid, magic mushrooms... From a strictly graphical point of view, however, LSD is most important by far..." He is best known as the author of manga Heaven's Door and Ultra Heaven.[1]

His work was first presented to English audiences in 2016.[3]

Works
  • 1985: Shadow Man
  • 1985–1986: Spinoza
  • 1988: Katajikenai
  • 1988: G
  • 1989–1991: Astroid
  • 2002–hiatus: Ultra Heaven
  • 2003: Heaven's Door
gollark: Forming countries is actually hard, and school systems are very unoptimized to teach this way.
gollark: Stop hating them.
gollark: There are things between linear and exponential, which is important sometimes.
gollark: ... the point is that if the thing which is varying is in the exponent it's "exponential", if the exponent is constant it's "polynomial" or something.
gollark: Exponential would be if it was 2^x or something.

References
  1. Stephane Jarno (6 November 2010). "Keiichi Koike, le mangaka qui met ses trips sur la table" (in French). Telerama. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  2. Baptiste Gilleron (3 October 2009). "Heaven's Door - Par Keiichi Koike - Glénat" (in French). Actua BD. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  3. Shea Hennum, Tegan O'Neil, Caitlin Rosberg, and Oliver Sava (12 January 2016). "Humanoids' attempt to represent global comics shows just another boys' club". AV Club. Retrieved 18 March 2017.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


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