Tsutomu Nihei

Tsutomu Nihei is a Japanese manga artist who started out as an assistant to Tsutomu Takahashi. In 1995 a one-shot called Blame won a special prize in Afternoon's Four Seasons contest. Two years later he turned it into his debut series Blame!, a vast cyberpunk labyrinth, in Monthly Afternoon. He has also worked for Marvel with Wolverine: Snikt!