Taiyō Matsumoto (Japanese: 松本 大洋, Hepburn: Matsumoto Taiyō, born October 25, 1967) is a Japanese manga artist from Tokyo. He has won several awards, including the Shogakukan Manga Award, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and Eisner Award. Ping Pong and Blue Spring have been adapted into live-action feature films. Animation studio Studio 4°C adapted Tekkonkinkreet into an animated feature film, it was released in Japan in late 2006, and both the anime and manga have been published in English. He is the cousin of Santa Inoue, another manga artist.
Taiyō Matsumoto
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- Oct. 25, 1967
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Books by Taiyō Matsumoto

Eddie Campbell, Naoki Urasawa, Bastien Vivès, Emmanuel Lepage, Taiyō Matsumoto, Frederik Peeters, Paul Pope, John Cassaday, Katsuya Terada, Atsushi Kaneko, Keiichi Koike, Bob Fingerman: The Tipping Point (2016, Humanoides)
The Tipping Point
by Eddie Campbell, Naoki Urasawa, Bastien Vivès, and 9 others