Shigeru Nakamoto
Japanese manga artist born in 1951 on an island in Sakito, Nagasaki Prefecture. Dream Kamen earned an honorable mention at the 2nd Tezuka Award in 1971, and Garagara Umauma won the 3rd Tezuka Award in 1972, the first work to receive the award's top prize. The 1973 Weekly Shōnen Jump serialization of Dream Kamen remained Nakamoto's only commercial series before leaving the manga world; it was first published in book form in 2000.