Record of a Drunk | Takeo Iwata | Manga Heaven pg.7

Size : 27.5 x 39 cm | pencil & ink on paper | Very good condition

Takeo Iwata (1924-1986) ... yet another mangaka that died young !

He was a banker (yet another banker) at the Bank of Japan before switching to manga and started working for the Osaka Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper. In 1959 he moved to Tokyo, where he specialized in social manga illustrating the struggle of life, the difficulties in understanding woman, the differences between the politicians and the salaryman ...
He worked for various newspapers, including the Sankei Shimbun before he suffered a cerebral infarction in 1980 and was repeatedly admitted to and discharged from hospital until his passing away in 1986. 
He won the 1975 Japan Cartoonists Association Award for excellance and originality for his unseen use of shadow (The Song of the Pendako)
He furthermore published short stories in different weeklies and monthlies such as Weekly Manga Times, Manga Story and Manga heaven where he had a longer running manga called 'Dog shit at Iseya Inari' (1960-1986) and also this "record of a drunk" published in the early years of Manga Heaven (1960's) ... Manga Heaven is also the place where he befriended Shigeru Mizuki