Last month, unbeknownst to me, Timothy Lehmann released a lovely book called Manga: Masters of the Art. It's basically the same thing as Salsbury's Writers/Artists on Comic Book Scriptwriting/Art books, but with the focus on manga creators.
The creators covered inlcude Kia Asamiya, CLAMP, Takehiko Inoue, Erica Sakurazawa , Jiro Taniguchi, Yuko Tsuno, Tatsuya Egawa, Suehiro Maruo, Reiko Okano, Mafuyu Hiroki, Miou Takaya, and Usamaru Furuya.
There are several articles and interviews regarding the book floating around right now. Here are links to two of them.
LEHMANN & THE MANGA MASTERS
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I'm dying to get my hands on this. Sounds fantastic.
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