Susumu Matsushita


Susumu Matsushita is a Japanese manga artist known for his unique American comic–influenced design. His most famous works are the designing of the mascot Neppe of Orix Buffaloes, Motor Toon Grand Prix, Hudson's Adventure Island series, Monkey Magic and the concept arts.
Matsushita's illustrations have frequently appeared in video game magazines including the creation of numerous covers for publications such as Famitsu. 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 gaming events like Nintendo Space World, 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 and Cuccu.
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.