is a Japanese manga artist

Mangaka

is the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese...

. Two of his lengthy manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 serials

Serial (literature)

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, Golden Lucky and Enomoto: New Elements that Shake the World

Enomoto: New Elements that Shake the World

is a manga written and drawn by Shunji Enomoto. It appeared in Kodansha's Weekly Morning from 1997 to 2003 and has been gathered into nine book collections. It is filled with extreme scatological and sexual humor on a gargantuan scale...

, ran in the magazine Weekly Morning

Weekly Morning

is a weekly Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Kodansha, aimed at adult men. It debuted in 1982 as and is also known as simply .- Series running every week :- Series running every other week :...

from 1989 to 1996 and 1997 to 2003 respectively. His other published works include the graphic novel

Graphic novel

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 Hangyaku no Noroshi (Curse of the Traitor), Eiga de Nigirippi (Holding in Farts at the Movies) (which ran in the now-defunct Young Magazine Uppers), Enotic, and The Family Zoo (with writer Chuya Chikazawa). His manga are known for their unusual visual rhythms and formal devices and for their obsessive and extreme scatological humor.

Enomoto has a cult following in the United States

United States

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 among fans of alternative comics

Alternative comics

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 and manga. His works have been enthusiastically reviewed in The Comics Journal

The Comics Journal

The Comics Journal, often abbreviated TCJ, is an American magazine of news and criticism pertaining to comic books, comic strips and graphic novels...

, which also published a short untitled comic by him in its Winter 2004 Special Edition. An English language

English language

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 scanlation

Scanlation

Scanlation is the scanning, translation and editing of a graphic novel from a foreign language into a different language. Scanlation is done as an amateur work and is nearly always done without express permission from the copyright holder. The word scanlation is a portmanteau of scan and translation...

 has been made of The Family Zoo. Works by Enomoto have also been published in Spanish

Spanish language

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 and Italian

Italian language

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 translations.

Shunji Enomoto is a graduate of Yokohama

Yokohama

is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...

's Japan Film School.