More actions
This isn't an advert for Karlskrona. |
m 1 revision imported |
(No difference)
|
Latest revision as of 10:50, 30 November 2024
Template:Expand language Template:Short description Template:Infobox comics creator
Åsa Ekström is a Swedish comics artist,[1] currently residing and working as a manga creator in Suginami, Tokyo, Japan.
Life and career
Ekström was born in Karlskrona, Blekinge.
Sailor Moon introduced her to modern Japanese culture. After that, she read manga such as “Ranma ½” and “One Piece”.
In 2011, she decided to settle there and started to post her 4-koma essay (her diary) manga on her blog.
In 2015, her manga,「北欧女子オーサがみつけた日本の不思議 (That's what Åsa found in Japan)」 was published by Media Factory. The same year, her romance genre trilogy of comics「さよならセプテンバー (Goodbye, September)」(3 volumes (complete), Japanese translated version) was published by CREEK & RIVER, and her trilogy “Goodbye, September” won the Gaiman Award .「ガイマン賞 2015 (Gaiman Award, foreign comics contest)」.
The sixth volume of the “That’s what Åsa found in Japan” series was published in December 2020.
References
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>
tag; no text was provided for refs namedkartago