10 Facts About Yoshihiro Yonezawa

Yoshihiro Yonezawa was a Japanese manga critic and author.

Yoshihiro Yonezawa is known for being Comiket's co-founder and president.

Yoshihiro Yonezawa won the 2007 Seiun Award in the special category and 2010 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Special Award.

Yoshihiro Yonezawa would go on to attend Kumamoto Prefectural Kumamoto High School where he participated in anti-war student activism, throwing molotov cocktails while protesting the stationing of American nuclear aircraft carriers at USFA Sasebo and getting detained by the police.

Yoshihiro Yonezawa began criticizing manga while he was studying engineering at Meiji University, as part of the group Meikyu.

Yoshihiro Yonezawa has said that in the early 1970s, mostly mainstream manga were published, as there were few manga magazines at that time.

COM, a manga magazine with a reputation for publishing experimental manga had closed in 1972, and Yoshihiro Yonezawa believed that by 1973 and 1974, it was very difficult to publish "unusual" works in anything other than "underground" zines devoted to dojinshi.

Yoshihiro Yonezawa was a judge for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Yoshihiro Yonezawa was posthumously awarded the 2007 Seiun Award in the special category, and the special Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2010.

Yoshihiro Yonezawa was hospitalised on September 30,2006, and on October 1,2006, Yonezawa died of lung cancer at age 53.