After leaving school to work as a sign painter, he began submitting cartoons to various manga magazines, eventually moving to Tokyo to pursue a full-time career as a cartoonist.
Inspired by his late father, who had been an artist, he showed his own flair for drawing at an early age. Growing up amid the devastation and poverty of postwar Hiroshima, he found solace in the manga of Osamu Tezuka. Only a mile from ground zero, he miraculously survived with minimal injuries, but he lost his father, brother and sister in the ensuing holocaust.
Keiji Nakazawa was born in Hiroshima in 1939 and was 6 when the atomic bomb was dropped on his hometown. This photo was taken by and is courtesy of Alan Gleason.
This interview ran in The Comics Journal #256 (October 2003). From the TCJ Archives Keiji Nakazawa Interview
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