Fumio Obata

Fumio Obata is a comic book author and visual artist whose work and inspiration come from cultural differences and social issues in his surroundings. Fumio was born in Tokyo and grew up with the manga and anime cultures of the 1970s and ‘80s. Fumio was always fond of drawing, at school, his exercise books were always full of cartoon sketches. In 1991, he moved to the UK and has been living on British soil since. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Illustration from Glasgow School of Art and obtained a master’s degree in visual communication at Royal College of Art in London. He’s pursuing his career in sequential imagery/design and is eager to extend its potentials into a wider perspective.