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3 unusual facts about Rakuten Kitazawa


Frank Arthur Nankivell

He was a large influence on the Japanese manga artist Rakuten Kitazawa.

He later travelled to Japan and earned a living as a cartoonist in Tokyo where he made the acquaintance of Rakuten Kitazawa, who later became father of the Japanese comic art now known as manga.

Rakuten Kitazawa

He joined the English-language magazine Box of Curios in 1895, and started drawing cartoons under Frank Arthur Nankivell, an Australian artist who later emigrated to America and became a popular cartoonist for Puck magazine.



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