Gou Tanabe

Gou Tanabe (田邊剛) is a Japanese manga artist who is especially known for his adaptations of literary works by American writer H. P. Lovecraft.

His manga have been translated into English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.

In the Q4 2005, in the midst of non productive period, he was exploring new ideas for "stories about monsters with no positive outcome".

His publisher introduced him to the Cthulhu Mythos by Howard Phillips Lovecraft.

In a subsequent interview with CNews2, Tanabe said how he was impressed by characters who "lose all hope and appetite for life. It is this common thread in Lovecraft's stories that particularly struck me".

In 2007, he drew the romantic drama Kasane (累) in the magazine Comic Beam, published in the same year by Enterbrain, as well as The Outsider (アウトサイダー), loosely adapted from H. P. Lovecraft's short story.

In 2012, he drew an adaptation of Mr. Nobody in Monthly Comic Ryū and it was also subsequently published in a three bound volumes by publisher Tokuma Shoten.

In 2015, he drew Lovecraft's The Color Out of Space (異世界の色彩) in Comic Beam, which was published by Enterbrain.

In 2016, Enterbrain published further Lovecraft's adaptations of The Haunter of the Dark (闇に這う者) and At the Mountains of Madness (狂気の山脈にて).

In 2018, he drew Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time (時を超える影), followed by The Call of Cthulhu (クトゥルフの呼び声) in 2019.

On March 12, 2021, he completed Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth (インスマウスの影).