Manhwa Artist Seung Nam Ha Dies at 68
The Korea Cartoonist Association announced that martial arts manhwa artist Seung Nam Ha died on November 2. He was 68.
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Why it matters
Ha's death closes the record on an artist whose career crossed from Busan apprenticeship to serialization in Taiwanese and Japanese magazines, and who joined the Japan Cartoonists Association as a full member in 2007.
Key Facts
- The Korea Cartoonist Association announced that Seung Nam Ha died on November 2. He was 68.
- Seung Nam Ha was born in Busan in 1958 and debuted in 1980 with The King of Baseball Without a Nationality.
- His Goltong's Declaration of Departure began serialization in the newspaper Sports Today in 2001.
- Ha serialized comics in the Taiwanese magazine Infinite Boys in 1994 and published Sayaka in 2004 and Existence in 2005 in Japanese manga magazines.
- In 2007, Ha became the first Korean comic artist to join the Japan Cartoonists Association as a full member.
Born in Busan in 1958, Ha entered comics as an apprentice to Nam-gil Heo and debuted in 1980 with The King of Baseball Without a Nationality. His Goltong series, which began in the newspaper Sports Today in 2001, followed Yoo Se-ok, and Ha founded Ha Seung-nam Production the following year.
Ha's overseas work ran through the 1990s and 2000s. He serialized comics in the Taiwanese magazine Infinite Boys in 1994, then published Sayaka in 2004 and Existence in 2005 in Japanese manga magazines. He was also the artist for the Records of the Three Kingdoms manga.
At home, Ha founded Ha Seung-nam Production in 2002 and kept publishing Goltong stories around Yoo Se-ok. The Korea Cartoonist Association announced his death on November 2, and Ha served as a board member of that association.
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- Anime News Network Martial Arts Manhwa Artist Seung-nam Ha Dies at 68