Kawaguchi, Kaiji

Kaiji Kawaguchi is a leading artist of seinen-manga, born in Hiroshima. He is best known for the manga series Eagle, a political thriller about a Japanese American running for president, that ran in Big Comic of the Shogakukan publishing house between 1998 and 2001. Kawaguchi has been active in the manga field since the mid-1980s, and has published titles like Hard & Loose, The Silent Service (1989-1996), Medusa (1990), Seizon Life (2000) and Zipang (2001).