Comic Book Crusader
When he finished university, Tetsuya Totsuka planned to be a nuclear physicist. Today he is one of the most respected writers of food manga in Japan. And with the release of new English-translation editions of his most popular series Oishinbo, a la carte, his impact is set to be much wider.
His Japanese friends know him by his nom de plume of Tetsu Kariya. Oishinbo started in 1984 as a weekly 22-page page comic strip. It now appears in two paperback editions a year, there have been more than 100 issues and it has sold more than a million copies.
Kariya was born in China and grew up in Japan, where he studied physics at Tokyo University then worked as an advertising copywriter. For the past 20 years, he has lived in Australia.
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