Gou Tanabe


Gou Tanabe is a Japanese manga artist who is especially known for his adaptations of literary works by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. His manga has been translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Polish.

Career

In Q4 2005, in the midst of a nonproductive 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 in the magazine Comic Beam, published in the same year by Enterbrain, as well as The Outsider, 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 three bound volumes by publisher Tokuma Shoten.
In 2015, he drew Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space in Comic Beam, which was published by Enterbrain.
In 2016, Enterbrain published further Lovecraft's adaptations of The Haunter of the Dark and At the Mountains of Madness.
In 2018, he drew Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, followed by The Call of Cthulhu in 2019.
On March 12, 2021, he completed Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth''.

Adaptations of Lovecraft's works

  • Stories by other authors: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov´s The House with the Mezzanine, Maxim Gorky´s Twenty-six Men and a Girl, Marley Caribu´s A Barnstormer on Pont-Neuf, Sanyutei Encho´s Kasane Souetsu Goroshi and Gou Tanabe´s Ju-ga
  • Also adapted: The Temple and The Nameless City
Translated in English by Dark Horse Manga in 2017;
Translated in English by Dark Horse Manga in 2025;
  • Also adapted: Dagon
  • 4 Volumes
Translated in English by Dark Horse Manga in 2019 in 2 Volumes;
Translated in English by Dark Horse Manga in 2025;
Translated in English by Dark Horse Manga in 2024;
  • 2 Volumes
Translated in English by Dark Horse Manga in 2023;