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Work for Biro-Wood around 1949

Min Matsuda worked for comic book creators Biro-Wood in 1949.

Charles Biro and Bob Wood created comic books published by Lev Gleason. A 1949 Christmas Card includes a picture of Min Matsuda. It's included in the article about Irving Watanabe on Alex Jay's site "Tenth Letter of the Alphabet".

It's not immediately clear what work she did for Biro-Wood, but the 1950 census lists her as "Artist - Commercial Work". (As Shizu Matsuda, with husband Thomas and son Karl, on sheet 6 of ED 31-1072.)

Also included on the postcard were John Yakata (biography unknown) and Irving Watanabe (art director; and letterer for all of of Biro-Wood comics). Among the artists who did story work for Biro-Wood were Fred Kida and Bob Fujitani. Roket (talk) 07:48, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Early live movement

Matsuda's connection to Utah predated World War 2. In the 1920 census, her father Kojiro Utsunomiya was listed as a proprietor of a restaurant in Salk Lake City.

In 1935 and 1936 Kojiro Utsunomiya is in the Santa Cruz city directory working at a restaurant. Roket (talk) 08:08, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]