Biography of KIKUO SHIBUE 》
Date of Birth :
23rd of January 1948
Birth Place :
Suwa City, Nagano ,Japan
Summary of Career :
1963 Entered Okaya Minami Hish School
1965 Became a pupil of Mr. Mutsunori Futatsugi
(Current Honorable Chief of Ilf Museum of Pictures for Children)   
1966 Graduated the High School
Entered Asagaya Art School
1967 Entered Tokyo Zokei University, Design Dept. Graphic Design)
1970 Graduated Tokyo Zokei University
Joined “Mana Maeda Design Office)
1974 Became Freelance
1999 First Exhibition at Shinjuku Takano Gallery
2006 2nd Exhibition at Gallery Emu in Shinjuku
3rd Exhibition at Kasai Garo in Suwa, Nagano
Awards Received :
1975
29th Cultural Award of Mainichi Publishing
   Human, Body and Mine” (Shogakkan) AD/Illustration
1983
Incentive Award of Nippon PR Magazines Award
   Quarterly Altman (Diamondsha)
         Illustration for the cover pages 
             (AD Mr. Shuji Takada)
1984 ditto
1985 ditto
Major Work :
 JTB Newspaper Ad Illustration (Asahi, Mainichi, Yomiuri)
“ Kodansha Encyclopedia” Illustration 
         (AD Mr. Shuji Takada)
 Hakone no Mori Sculpture Museum Memorial Birds-Eye View for Its Foundation
“Sunshine Int’l Aquarium”
     Illustration for Its Foundation Memorial Pamphlet
“Kodansha Medical Encyclopedia” Illustration
         (AD: Mr. Teruyuki Kunitou)
“Morioka City Zoo, Morgue” All Illustration
“Nikkei Business” Cover Page Illustration
“Quarterly Altman” Cover Page Illustration
         (AD: Mr. Takada)
“Lineage of Gods,NU1~8”(Shogakkan)Cover Page Illustration