Suzue Miuchi

Suzue Miuchi (美内 すずえ) is a Japanese manga artist and author of long-running shōjo manga Glass Mask.

Life
She was born in Nishinomiya, Japan and grew up in Osaka. She lived nearby a rental bookstore (kashi-hon) in her childhood and started drawing manga herself, when she had too many unpaid bills at a rental bookstore and her mother forbid her to continue reading manga. Miuchi made her professional debut as a manga artist in 1967, aged only 16, with the manga Yama no Tsuki to Kodanuki in the shōjo magazine Margaret. Her early debut as a highschool-aged manga artist inspired Yukari Ichijo to start a professional career as a manga artist at the time. She became famous for publishing short stories in the early 1970s, among them also horror manga. Her 1975 short story Shiroi Kagebōshi is considered a classic of shōjo horror manga.

Her biggest success came in 1976, when she began the long-running and ongoing series Glass Mask (Glass no Kamen) about a girl becoming a famous theater actress. The manga has been adapated into a stage play, a live-action TV series and an anime series.

She won the Kodansha Manga Award (1982) for Youkihi-den and the Japan Cartoonists Association Award (1995) for Glass Mask.

Series

 * Moeru Niji (燃える虹), 1970
 * 13-gatsu no Higeki (13月の悲劇), 1971
 * Amaranth no Joō (アマランスの女王), 1972
 * Harukanaru Kaze to Hikari (はるかなる風と光), 1973–1974
 * Kujaku-iro no Kanaria (孔雀色のカナリア), 1973–1974
 * Shira-yuri no Kishi (白ゆりの騎士), 1974–1975
 * Glass Mask (ガラスの仮面, Garasu no Kamen), since 1976, serialized in Hana to Yume and Bessatsu Hana to Yume
 * Saint Alice Teikoku (聖アリス帝国, Sei-Arisu Teikoku), 1976–1978
 * Bara Monogatari (バラ物語), 1979
 * Yōkihi-den (妖鬼妃伝), 1981
 * Dynamite Milk Pie (ダイナマイト・みるく・パイ, Dainamaito Miruku Pai), 1982
 * Amaterasu (アマテラス), 1986–1995

One-shots

 * Yama no Tsuki to Kodanuki to (山の月とこだぬきと), 1967
 * Shiroi Kagebōshi (白い影法師), 1975, published in Mimi
 * Dynamite Milkpie
 * Futari no Melody
 * Kaerazaru Hyuuga
 * Majou Medea
 * Niji no Ikusa
 * Oujo Alexandra
 * Pollyana's Knight
 * Shiroi Kageboshi