Rare original page by the now 97-year-old horror mangaka and gekiga grandmaster “Miki Thorn” a.k.a. Miki Ibara (1928-) Sword Rust (Sabi no Katana) published by Tokyo Top Company as well as in Miki Ibara's masterpiece collection (Tsubame Publishing) Media: pencil and ink on drawing paper Condition: Very good condition Dimensions: 21.2 x 33 cm Miki Thorn is one of the few gekiga mangaka who combined period drama with horror and continued on the path of horror long after rental manga was replaced by manga magazines ... Miki was one of the protagonists of “Skylark Books”. Not only did he draw a number of great graphic novels, he also published several horror books with “Hibari Shobo”. His colleague and good friend Shigeru Mizuki drew a mangaka named “Ibaramichi” in “Comic Showa History”, who was modelled after him.