Shigeru Komatsuzaki
Shigeru Komatsuzaki (14.2.1915 - 7.12.2001) He was a painter / illustrator from Tokyo. He worked extensively in science illustrations, battlefields, box arts (box paintings of plastic models), and others. In 1961, when the TAMIYA inc. was in a management crisis, they asked Mr. Komatsuzaki to make box art. It is well known that plastic model "Panther Tank" became a big hit product, and that had trigger of TAMIYA's management rebuilding http://thunderbirds.wikia.com/wiki/Shigeru_Komatsuzaki Shigeru Komatsuzaki (1915 - December 7, 2001) was born in Tokyo and is one of the most prolific figures in science fiction in Japan from the 50’s all the way through till his death in 2001. His first published work, "Shirogitsune Kidan" ("Mystery of the White Fox") was created while he was in his teens before he was recruited to draw mechanical hardware for a journal called ‘Kikaika’ during the Second World War. After the war he wrote and illu...