Akizuki Risu
Encyclopedia
is the pen name of a Japanese
four-panel
manga artist
. She made professional manga
debut with Okusama Shinkaron in 1988. Her most famous work is OL Shinkaron
. She won the 8th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2004.
Japanese people
The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...
four-panel
Yonkoma
thumb|right|150px|Traditional Yonkoma layout, a comic-strip format, generally consists of gag comic strips within four panels of equal size ordered from top to bottom...
manga artist
Mangaka
is the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese...
. She made professional manga
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...
debut with Okusama Shinkaron in 1988. Her most famous work is OL Shinkaron
OL Shinkaron
is a yonkoma manga series by Akizuki Risu about OLs, or office ladies. It also had a short, spin-off series titled Okusama Shinkaron that focused on housewives. Several volumes of OL Shinkaron have been published by Kodansha in a Japanese/English bilingual edition titled Survival in the Office: The...
. She won the 8th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2004.