Artist Biography
Comic artist Kekkou (ケッコウ) started out practicing the art of sculpting at the age of 12, sculpting mostly pop culture figures and icons. He continued to sculpt for 4 years before finding himself having a growing interest in creating stories.
He has also practiced the Japanese art of paper sculpting, known as Origami, since the age of 9, developing his spatial vision. He has developed many origami models such as flowers, animals, and decorations. He was once asked to do a tutorial on origami for the student body in primary school and was once commissioned to create origami decorations for a private exhibition.
He started to develop his drawing, language, and storytelling skills when he was 17 in order to execute his ideas in the form of graphic novels. Feeling a connection to Asian media such as anime, manga, manhwa, and manhua, he adopted a similar style of illustration. He does not shy away from presenting raw, dark themes in his work, such as death, murder, and corruption among others. He has created various one-shots such as “Human”, which covers forced labour, and “The girl he sees in his dreams” which covers the effects of suicide and the surrounding people, among others. He is looking for his dark, cyberpunk-themed comic, known as “Metal World (金属の世界)” to be the first full-length series to be published through online platforms like Amazon Kindle, Webtoon, and Pixiv in Japanese, Korean and English.