Suzue Miuchi

Suzue Miuchi (美内 すずえ, Miuchi Suzue, born February 20, 1951) is a Japanese manga artist and author of long-running shōjo manga Glass Mask.

She lived nearby a rental bookstore (kashi-hon) in her childhood and started drawing manga herself, when she had too many unpaid bills at a rental bookstore and her mother forbid her to continue reading manga.

She became famous for publishing short stories in the early 1970s, among them also horror manga.

[1] Her 1975 short story Shiroi Kagebōshi is considered a classic of shōjo horror manga.

[2] Her biggest success came in 1976, when she began the long-running series Glass Mask about a girl becoming a famous theater actress.