Junji Itō

Junji Ito is a Japanese horror manga artist, born July 31, 1963. He is best known for Tomie, about an immortal girl who drives her admirers to madness, and Uzumaki, a three-volume series about a town cursed by spirals. His two-volume Gyo follows fish taken over by a bacterial strain called the death stench, and his work has been adapted into both film and anime.