Kō Kojima(小島 功Kojima Kō) is a mangaka born on March 3, 1928 in Tokyo, Japan. He is most well known for penning Sennin Buraku (running since 1956 in Weekly Asahi Geinō), the longest running comic by a single artist. He attended the private Kawabata Art Academy(川端画学校Kawabata Gagakkō) in Koishikawa (now part of Bunkyō, Tokyo, after which he began attending Taiheiyō Fine Arts Academy before dropping out partway through school. The manga artist Moyoco Anno (who is married to anime director Hideaki Anno) is Kojima's niece.