![]() In 1987, he submitted a short story to Gekkan Halloween that won an honorable mention in the Kazuo Umezu Prize (with Umezu himself as one of the judges). ![]() ![]() Ito first began writing and drawing manga as a hobby while working as a dental technician in the early 90's. He was inspired from a young age by both his older sister's drawings and the work of Kazuo Umezu. Junji Ito was born in the Gifu prefecture of Japan in 1963. Some of his most notable works includes a series of stories about Tomie, an immortal girl who drives her stricken admirers to madness, Uzumaki, a three-volume series about a town obsessed with spirals, and Gyo, a single-volume story where fish are controlled by a death stench. Junji Ito (伊藤 潤二 Itō Junji?, born July 31, 1963) is a Japanese horror manga artist best known for his horror stories. ![]()
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