Fujio Akatsuka

was a Japanese artist of manga. He was known as the Gag Manga King. He won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1964 for Osomatsu-kun and the Bungeishunjū Manga Award in 1971 for Tensai Bakabon. 

In April 2002 he was hospitalized for a subdural hematoma and was in a coma from 2004 until his death.Kenichi Nagira Fanclub bulletin On August 2, 2008, he died of pneumonia at a hospital in Bunkyō, Tokyo.

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Category:1935 births
Category:2008 deaths
Category:Deaths from subdural hematoma
Category:Deaths from pneumonia
Category:Japanese manga artists