Crayon Shinchan cartoonist missing

Submitted by amir azree on Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Thursday, September 17th, 2009 09:23:00

TOKYO: Popular Japanese cartoonist Yoshito Usui, whose manga and animation series Crayon Shin-chan has attracted a worldwide fan base, has gone missing on a hiking trip, police said yesterday.

Usui, 51, left his home in a suburban city north of Tokyo last Friday for a day-trip to mountains in nearby Gunma, a prefectural police offi cial said.

But he has since been unaccounted for with calls to his mobile phone left unanswered, the official said. “We are searching for him in the mountains.” Usui made his debut as a manga author in 1987 and gained popularity in the 1990s with Crayon Shin-chan featuring the daily life of Shinnosuke, a mischievous five-year-old boy.

“We are surprised and seriously worried because this kind of thing has never happened before,” said a spokesman for Futabasha Publishers Ltd.. which has been publishing a Shin-chan series in its monthly comic.

“We have his manuscripts in stock and we don’t have to stop the series immediately. — AFP

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