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Shigeru Mizuki (水木しげる, 1922 - 2015) was a Japanese manga artist, he mostly dealt with yōkai (monsters and spirits) and, in addition to comics, also published illustrated encyclopaedias about demons, witches and other beings from Japanese folklore.

He was born in Sakaiminato, the second of three sons. His talent for drawing was evident in childhood, as was his interest in mythology. An old woman from his neighborhood, fascinated by spirits, told him many stories about yōkai. Mizuki nicknamed her Non Non Bā (のんのんばあ). Later, he deepened his knowledge by reading the works of the ethnologist Kunio Yanagita .

In 1943, at the age of 21, he was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army. He was sent to Rabaul in New Britain and developed a fascination for the culture of Papua New Guinea . There, he was terrorized by his superiors and witnessed his comrades die from bombings and disease. When he himself was battling malaria and on the verge of death, he lost his left arm in an Allied air raid. He survived and returned to his homeland.

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Portrait by Duffy of Nina Simone in 1965. Simone was an American singer-songwriter, pianist and activist in the Civil Rights Movement. She recorded more than 40 albums through her fascinating life which continue to influence artists to this day.

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Roger Mello (born 20 November 1965) is a Brazilian children's book illustrator. He was the first illustrator from Latin America to win the Hans Christian Andersen Award, which he did in 2014.