Kiriko Kubo's manga drawings are an underground hit in Japan...By day she is Mrs Midgley, mild-mannered mother of Thomas, eight, with nothing to mark her out from any of the other mums gathered in the playground of Gospel Oak primary school. By night she is Kiriko Kubo, manga superstar, known and loved by teenagers all over Japan. Kiriko is a manga artist, one of those rare breed of cartoonists whose work keeps Japanese office workers entertained on the subway, comforts them through their lunch breaks and provides the solace and respite they need after a long night of study...There are few clues of her profession in the family home in Gospel Oak - where she lives with husband Nick and her son - until you get upstairs to her office where the door declares the room to be "Kiriko's factory". And it is no exaggeration. The back wall[floatr]
Mrs Midgley currently has an exhibition of her work at the Japanese Embassy in London. She is also featured in a British television arts programme devoted to manga.
