Once Upon a time... collected volume, UK£6.00 (limited ed.)
Details: 9x6"comic digest 160 pgs, colour cover, age rating teen
Once Upon a Time... stories of our time, the here and now. What challenges do we face when we have to grow up? Look through the eyes of different people as they deal with their personal battles, face the truth and determine their futures. Life's lessons can only be learnt from living it.
~ [COMING SOON...] ~

Manga Life: Be Creative, UK£6.00
Details: A5 digest 112 pgs, colour cover, age rating PG
Be creative marries manga images with tried and tested expert ideas in a stunning mixture of art and advice and is packed with ideas to help readers unleash their creative genius.
~ [Buy from Infinite Ideas website] ~
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Manga Life: Find True Love, UK£6.00
Details: A5 digest 112 pgs, colour cover, age rating PG
Find true love is a fantastic blend of striking manga comics and practical expert advice that will help you find, and keep, your true love. Packed with inspiring information, Find true love contains 52 small but perfectly formed stand-alone chapters, each with unique and original manga drawings that enhance and illustrate the ideas featured. Join Hayley, Jemima, Pete and Ken as they negotiate love, romance and relationships twenty-first centry style, and learn from their adventures (and mistakes!) as they each search for true love.
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Satan's Amazon, UK£2.00
Details: A5 wirebound 20 pgs, colour cover, age rating 16+
Oksana is an Amazonian warrior who finally falls in battle - and is brought face to face with Satan. He tells her that in order to reach Heaven she must re-live her life... without ever fighting back. Artwork by Sonia Leong, Story by John Bamber
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Aya.Takeo
Details: A5, full colour, weekly online, age rating PG
Full-colour online manga (webcomic) updated every Sunday. A story about love and perseverance between a noblewoman separated from her lowly warrior, amidst a backdrop of a neo-classical Japan under invasion from spider mecha. Artwork by Sonia Leong, story by Lloyd Prentice. Launched at Anime Boston April 2007, printed version details to be confirmed.
~ [Free Online at www.ayatakeo.com] ~

Japan 21 / Devon Curriculum Service - Education resource pack
Details: TBC
This page was commissioned by the educational charity Japan 21 for a resource pack soon to be published by the Devon Curriculum Services. The page will be featured as part of a translation exercise for KS3 users, in the section "Japan - Changing Place, Changing People".
~ [Purchase details TBC] ~

Manga Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, UK£6.99
Details: A5 digest 208 pgs, colour cover, age rating teen
"MY ONLY LOVE SPRUNG FROM MY ONLY HATE," laments Juliet, the heroine of Romeo and Juliet, the world's most famous love story. A fusion of classic Shakespeare with manga visuals, this is a cutting edge adaptation that will impassion and grip its readers. Set in modern-day Japan, two young lovers are caught up in a bitter vendetta between their rival Yakuza families - the Montagues and the Capulets. Can their forbidden love survive as violence, betrayal and tragedy explode on the streets of Tokyo?
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Abridging the text was writer Richard Appignanesi (known for his popular study guides, "Introducing Postmodernism", "Introducing Existentialism", Freud for Beginners" among others). Edited by Emma Hayley, published by SelfMadeHero, the graphic novel arm of Metromedia UK. My Sweatdrop Studios colleague, Emma Vieceli created Hamlet.
Visit the publisher's website for more info: www.selfmadehero.com

Pink is for Girls, UK£5.00
Details: 9x6" comic digest 132 pgs, colour cover, age rating teen
This is one of a pair of books, where the stories are closely intertwined and explore the differences between shojo and shonen manga. Every story has a corresponding tale in Blue is for Boys. My contribution was "Return to Chenezzar", and the back cover image!
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Cyborg Butterfly, UK£2.00
Details: A5 wirebound 20 pgs, colour cover, age rating teen
Cyborg operative, Cho Tanaka is assigned to a dangerous mission. Will her feelings for day-dreaming doctor, Ben Mayhew, ever be returned?
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Tokyopop Rising Stars of Manga UK & Ireland vol.1, UK£6.99
Details: 127x189mm digest, 181 pgs, colour cover, age rating teen
My 20 page entry, "Fatal Connection" was the 2nd place winner. A tale of two sisters linked in a sinister way...
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I've made many friends by meeting up with the other winners, Paul Duffield, Patrick Warren, Leanne Hamilton and Sinead Lynch... Emma Vieceli of Sweatdrop is also in this book! Check out volume 2 because yet more Sweatdroppers and friends made it in the second time around!
Visit the publisher's website for more info: www.tokyopop.com

Power Trip, NEO magazine #8 UK£5.00 backorder
Details: A5 cover mount comic, 5 pgs, age rating PG
Someone goes on a Power Trip as two Egyptian gods battle it out in a videogame!
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Tea Time, featured in Aniway #20 EU €3.95
Details: A4 magazine feature 6 pgs, full colour, age rating PG
Two Lolitas meet for Tea, with some scary results...
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Sugardrops, UK£6.00
Details: 9x6" comic digest 156 pgs, colour cover, age rating PG
Sweatdrop Studios presents Sugardrops, a whimsical journey through the cute, the sweet and the adorable. Fifteen artists, each with their own personal take on the cute theme, with a delectable variety of manga-style artwork. Each short is a standalone story, so you can snack happily without spoiling your dinner. My Chapter was "Murder on the Dancefloor", a 10 pg short about a Catgirl Dance Competition!
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