Susumu Matsushita

Susumu Matsushita (松下進 Matsushita Susumu; born February 6, 1950 in Fussa, Tokyo) is a Japanese manga artist known for his unique American comic–influenced design. His most famous works are the designing of the mascots Neppie[lower-alpha 1] and Ripsea[lower-alpha 2] of the Orix Buffaloes, the concept art for the Monkey Magic television series, and video game artwork for Hudson's Adventure Island series (1986, NES), Motor Toon Grand Prix (1994, PS1), and Maximo: Ghosts to Glory (2001, PS2).

Corporate mascots

Matsushita's illustrations have frequently appeared in video game magazines including the creation of numerous covers for publications such as Famitsu (for which Matsushita has designed the mascot, Necky the Fox[lower-alpha 3][1][2]). Matsushita is also responsible for creating the mascots of numerous Famitsu spinoff magazines including:

In addition to creating characters for game magazines, Matsushita has also designed mascots and characters for the Kitakyushu based theme park Space World (Matsushita designed Lucky Rabbit and friends),[4] and for video games such as those in the Derby Stallion series. He also designed the mascots for the 1994 Asian Games which were being hosted in Hiroshima at the time, Poppo[lower-alpha 8] and Cuccu[lower-alpha 9].

He also drew the old Shueisha Business Jump magazine's mascot, which was a mouse.

Personal life

Matsushita is married to American-Japanese jazz singer Naomi Grace.[5]

Notes
  1. Japanese: ネッピー
  2. Japanese: リプシー
  3. Japanese: ネッキー・ザ・フォックス
  4. Japanese: アーノルド・アルマジロ
  5. Japanese: サビー・ザ・フライング スクウィラル
  6. Japanese: ペンギン・ブラザース
  7. Japanese: バギー・ザ・バット
  8. Japanese: ポッポ
  9. Japanese: クック

References
  1. Gifford, Kevin. Weekend Factyard: Famitsu/Famicom Tsushin Archived 2010-01-03 at the Wayback Machine MagWeasel. 19 September 2009.
  2. Ashcraft, Brian. Gaming Magazine Totally Snubs Xbox 360!? Archived 2009-05-05 at the Wayback Machine. Kotaku. 4 February 2008.
  3. 'Necky the Fox' 今も尚輝き続ける松下進の代表的キャラクター Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine. SusumuMatsushita.net. 10 July 2004.
  4. Characters|SpaceWorld Archived 2010-11-25 at the Wayback Machine SpaceWorld.co.jp. 2005.
  5. Betros, Chris. "Naomi Grace breathes new life into Tokyo's jazz-pop scene". Japan Today. GPlusMedia Inc. Archived from the original on 6 June 2020. Retrieved 6 June 2020.



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