Suehiro Maruo is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator and painter whose work is inspired by the Ero Guro movement, with a really special and widely recognizable nightmarish style. Born in 1956 in Nagasaki, Maruo started his career sketching for pornographic comic magazines, as his work was often rejected from big editions. However, this did not negatively affect his vision, which he passionately followed, finally leading him to become one of the most reknown artists of his kind worldwide.
Maruo's stories often take place in the early years of japanese Showa Era, featuring strange heroes with oddities, deformities or birth defects in sex or violent situations. Like many manga artists, he makes cameo appearances in his own stories.
Although Maruo is mostly known for his work as a manga artist, he has also produced illustrations for concert posters, CD jackets, magazines, novels and various other media.
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