Hitoshi Iwaaki, from Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese manga artist. He is the writer and illustrator for the science fiction/horror series Kiseijuu. Iwaaki's art is simple, powerful and sensitive, going against the '90s trend towards flashy pictures and vapid plots. He cites Tezuka as his main influence.
In 1993, he received the Kodansha Manga Award for Parasyte, and in 2012 he was awarded the 16th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize for Historie.
