Machiko Hasegawa
Japanese manga artist
Died when: 72 years 118 days (867 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Machiko Hasegawa (?????, Hasegawa Machiko, January 30, 1920 – May 27, 1992) was a Japanese manga artist and one of the first female manga artists.She started her own comic strip, Sazae-san, in 1946.
It reached national circulation via the Asahi Shimbun in 1949, and ran daily until Hasegawa decided to retire in February 1974.All of her comics were printed in Japan in digest comics; by the mid-1990s, Hasegawa's estate had sold over 60 million copies in Japan alone.
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