JUN HATANAKA
Born on March 3,1950 in Kokura,Fukuoka.Debuted in 1977 with“Moon Night".In 1979, "Mandaraya Onsen's Ryota" which ran in 『Manga Sunday』.
In 1981, he won The Japan Cartoonists Association's Award of Excellence for this work,which ran for more than10 years.
Other works include "Watashi no Mura", "Risoukyu", "Sabulou-malu",collections of his prints,such,as "Zosui-keihou", "Kittyou" and others.
In the fall of 1996,he will publish a collection of illustrations of Miyazawa Kenji's works.