Character Designer

🇺🇸Jack Kirby

Art

1917–1994

"I was a young man. I was still growing out of the East Side. The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I’d beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it."

🇯🇵Osamu Tezuka

Art

1928–1989

"Long ago, many of the small hells that took place in the camps right next to my house showed the joy of living, and tirelessly despite everything"

🇯🇵Hayao Miyazaki

Art

b. 1941

"Life is a winking light in the darkness."

"If I were rain, That joins sky and earth that otherwise never touch,Could I join two hearts as well?"

🇯🇵Akira Toriyama

Art

1955–2024

"I was an avid anime watcher until I was about 10, when I moved to manga. I think I am influenced by Osamu Tezuka's and Walt Disney's works which I watched during that time, such as Tetsuwan Atom and 101 Dalmatians."

🇺🇸Chris Buck

Art

b. 1960

"A wedding. According to Chris, they didn't die on the boat. They got washed up on a shore in a jungle island. The queen gave birth to a baby boy. They build a treehouse. They get eaten by a leopard..."