Keiji Nakazawa

Keiji Nakazawa was born in Hiroshima, and was six years old when the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945. Keiji Nakazawa penned numerous comics during his long career as a cartoonist. He is best known for his series Barefoot Gen. Nakazawa retired from cartooning in 2009. He continued to lecture throughout Japan about the experience of atomic bomb victims, until his death in Hiroshima in 2012, at age 73. Nakazawa was posthumously inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2024. He is survived by his wife, daughter, and grandchildren.