Sakura Momoko, Creator of Chibi Maruko-chan, Passed Away
From Kenneth M. Lin@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 29 22:09:36 2018
I saw the news while flipping through YouTube but wasn't sure how old the article was. It turns out she passed away just two weeks ago. I don't
think Chi Maruko-chan is well know in U.S. and she stopped drawing long ago and turned to writing essays.
Momoko Sakura (さくら ももこ Sakura Momoko) (born in 1965, died on 15 August 2018,
at the age of 53)[1][2] was a Japanese manga artist from Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture. She is best known as the creator of the long-running manga Chibi Maruko-chan.