Kazuo Umezu or Kazuo Umezz (楳図 かずお, Umezu Kazuo, birth name 楳図一雄; September 3, 1936 – October 28, 2024) was a Japanese <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga_artist">manga artist</a>, musician and actor. Starting his career in the 1950s, he is among the most famous artists of <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_manga">horror manga</a> and has been vital for its development, considered the "god of horror manga". In 1960s <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Djo_manga">shōjo manga</a> like <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilia_(manga)">Reptilia</a>, he broke the industry's conventions by combining the aesthetics of the commercial manga industry with gruesome visual imagery inspired by <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_folktales">Japanese folktales</a>, which created a boom of horror manga and influenced manga artists of following generations. He created successful manga series such as <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drifting_Classroom">The Drifting Classroom</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto-chan">Makoto-chan</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Name_Is_Shingo">My Name Is Shingo</a>, until he retired from drawing manga in the mid 1990s. He was a <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_figure">public figure</a> in Japan, known for wearing red-and-white-striped shirts and doing his signature "Gwash" hand gesture.trigger words : in the style of kazuoumezu, a black and white drawingin the style of kazuoumezu, a color manga drawing

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