Dream Fossil

Satoshi Kon is a multiple award-winning director and a former assistant to Katsuhiro Otomo. Before he went on to direct nearly half a dozen movies through the ’90s and ’00s, he cut his teeth as a comic artist. This collection features his first comic Toriko, the 1984 short that won that year’s Chiba Tetsuya Award for the Best New Comic Artist of the Year.

Author Biography

Satoshi Kon was born on October 12, 1963. While in college, at the Musashino Art University, Kon made his debut as a manga artist with the short manga Toriko (1984) and earned a runner-up spot in Kodansha’s 10th Annual Tetsuya Chiba Awards. Afterward, he found work as Katsuhiro Otomo’s assistant. Kon is credited by some, including TIME Magazine, as one of the faces most responsible for bringing Japanese pop-culture to America. His feature length films Perfect Blue, Paprika, Millennium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers were all distributed in theaters across the States and saw critical acclaim worldwide earning a number of awards in the process. Satoshi Kon was listed as one of TIME Magazine’s 2010 People of the Year. Winner of the Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya 2003 – Best Animated Film Academy Award submission 2003 for Millennium Actress; Winner of the Public’s Choice Award – 35th Montreal New Cinema Award for Paprika; Winner of the Best Feature Film Award at the 8th Newport Beach Film Festival. Kon died on August 24, 2010 at the age of 46.