白滨鸥

白滨鸥（日语：しらはま かもめ，5月7日—）是一名日本漫画家和插画家，毕业于东京艺术大学。较知名的作品为奇幻漫画《魔法帽的工作室》。

职业生涯

白滨鸥的首部漫画连载作品为由KADOKAWA发行的奇幻漫画《艾妮与迪薇》（エニデヴィ，全3册）。作为自由插画家的他时常为其他公司绘制插画，如漫威漫画的漫画封面（2015年），其他知名公司及作品还包括了DC漫画和《星际大战》的漫画封面。

2016年起，他在讲谈社的《月刊Morning two》上连载下一部奇幻漫画《魔法帽的工作室》。

连载作品

2013年至2015年：《艾妮与迪薇》（エニデヴィ，全3册）

2016年至今：《魔法帽的工作室》

Kamome Shirahama (白浜 鴎, Shirahama Kamome) is a Japanese freelance manga artist and illustrator. She is best known as the creator of her Witch Hat Atelier series. She has created variant covers and other illustrations for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and stories in the Star Wars franchise. She did the character designs for The Elder, part of the Star Wars: Visions short film series released in 2021, and she wrote the 2022 manga adaptation for it. She has also provided illustrations for the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

She has won and been nominated for multiple awards, including the Eisner Award, the Harvey Award, the Kodansha Manga Award, the Manga Taishō, the Daruma d'Or Manga at the Japan Expo Awards, the Mangawa Award, and the Prix Babelio.

Biography

Shirahama was born on May 7. She graduated from the design program at the Tokyo University of the Arts. She works using analog tools such as pencils, pen and ink, and colored pencils rather than digital tools. Influences on her work include The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter novels, which she read in junior high school, as well as the Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles. Her art style has multiple influences, including Alphonse Mucha, Mœbius, Hayao Miyazaki, and Moto Hagio.

Her debut story was Watashi no Kuro-chan (わたしのクロちゃん), published by Enterbrain in Fellows! in 2011. She made her multi-part story publishing debut with Eniale & Dewiela in Fellows! in 2012. The series ran for two years, ending in July 2015, and was collected in three volumes released in June 2013, June 2014, and July 2015. The series was translated into French and released by Pika Édition in 2019.

She began doing variant covers and other illustration and concept work for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and Star Wars comics in 2015 after her art was noticed at New York Comic Con, working on titles such as Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, Deadpool, and Batgirl and the Birds of Prey. Witch Hat Atelier began serialization in Kodansha's Monthly Morning Two manga magazine in July 2016. When the first collected volume was released in January 2017, the manga was so popular it became hard to find copies in stores.

In June 2022, her Star Wars manga short work, The Elder, was published in Big Gangan. She also did the character designs for the animated version of the story.

Starting in Late 2024 with Scarlet & Violet: Surging Sparks, Shirahama has also provided illustrations for the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Reception

Jérôme Briot of Zoo magazine praised the "swirling graphics and rare elegance" in Eniale & Dewiela, citing Shirahama's artistic inspiration from Alphone Mucha-esque Art Nouveau style. The French website, Manga-News, said the storyline of Eniale & Dewiela sometimes moved too quickly, jumping straight into the story without any setup. Because the individual stories in the series are fairly short, big ideas are often left unexplored. Despite these notes, Shirahama often surprised them with "a lot of imagination and crazy little ideas ... surprises ... [and] even a little emotion". The site praised her mixing and tweaking of various religious themes throughout the series, the chemistry between the two polar-opposite main characters, the quality of the artwork, and design and composition of the pages.

James Davis Nicoll at Tor.com described Shirahama's artwork in the Witch Hat Atelier manga as "sumptuous" and "evocative", and gave her "high marks for plausible magic". Rebecca Silverman at Anime News Network praised Shirahama's subtle characterization, stating that "all of the characters have layers to their personalities". She goes on to praise the "strong writing [that] is ably enhanced by truly beautiful artwork", stating that "you don't want to miss" it.