ARCHAIA ENTERTAINMENT
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Ishimori Production’s overseas projects!
June30,2013 RCTI&IshimoriPro launch 1st Indonesia superhero “Bima Satria Garuda”
http://twitpic.com/cq2qvx
July19,2013 publish graphic novel ”Cyborg009” in English & Japanese
http://twitpic.com/cq2uhkIshimori Production’s overseas projects!
What the whoa
The Ishinomori Manga Museum in Japan is displaying classic #Cyborg009 pages with art from our upcoming HC!
We recently released CYBORG 009 Chapter 000 as an individual issue, check out what Comic Bastards has to say about the action packed re-imagined sci-fi epic!
considering how much i (obviously) love ishinomori shoutarou im a little surprised ive not done this before
Gotta love that classic Ishinomori design… and even more so when it’s lovely fan art!
Geek Girl Project sits down with F.J. DeSanto in an interview talking about all things Cyborg 009. Gain some insight into this exciting new collaboration between Archaia and Ishimori!
An excerpt from their interview is below:
“Authors F.J. DeSanto (The Spirit, Insurgent) and Bradley Cramp (Gattaca, Lord of War) and illustrators Marcus To (Batwing, Huntress, Red Robin) and Ian Herring (Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand) recently embarked on the ambitious work of updating Shotaro Ishinomori’s Cyborg 009 for a modern international audience. The prequel issue, 000, came out on May 1, and the full graphic novel will be available from Archaia in July.
The Geek Girl Project is happy to have the chance to interview F.J. DeSanto about the upcoming hardcover graphic novel adaptation of the series!
GGP: Thanks for taking the time to talk with is! What led you to recreate the story of 009? What resonates about the tale now? How do you adapt a 60’s Cold War story to a modern setting? What choices do you make to make the adaptation appropriate today’s world and readers? What sacrifices does that involve? What do you gain?
F.J. DESANTO: What led to this was Ishimori Production’s and my desire to bring the creator’s wonderful legacy and properties to a wider audience and hopefully build a new generation of fans. We chose to start with Cyborg 009 because its international cast would be great to adapt for a modern audience while also being attractive to those fans who have a long history with the characters. The manga’s Cold War setting is eerily similar to the world we live in today. Thus, it didn’t take too much to adapt for a graphic novel reader in 2013. For us, it’s more about cherry picking as many fantastic elements from the source material as we can to create an exciting 105-page story.”
You can read the rest of the article HERE to learn more about Cyborg 009 and the creative team behind it.
CYBORG 009 : Now and Then
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All the cyborg’s anatomy from Super Galaxy.
Original Cyborg 009 designs from Shotaro Ishinomori’s Manga! These classic designs are beautifully detailed and helped to inform Archaia’s Cyborg 009 adaptation.
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Checking the color pages for new Cyborg009. Since the colors are not final this is a monochrome shot. (石森ブロ)
Checking the Cyborg009 graphic novel inked pages and it looks great! (Archaia Entertainment)
003 is thinkin about something serious…
From CBR:
Archaia and Ishimori Production Inc. are teaming up to re-interpret Shotaro Ishinomori’s classic manga series Cyborg 009 for Western readers. The new edition is written by F.J. DeSanto (The Spirit, Immortals: Gods and Heroes) and Bradley Cramp (Gattaca), and illustrated by Marcus To (Red Robin, The Huntress). Archaia has provided ROBOT 6 with an exclusive preview of the graphic novel, set for release early this year.
The story is about nine people who are kidnapped from around the world to become test subjects by The Black Ghost Organization, a secret society that provides weapons of mass destruction to the highest bidder. The victims are put through a series of experiments that transform them into super-powered weapons, but with the help of a compassionate project scientist, the living weapons rebel, escape, and set off on a mission to stop Black Ghost from plunging the world into a perpetual state of war.
The publisher states: “Created in 1964, Cyborg 009 was Japan’s first and most-popular super-team, quickly becoming one of the most influential manga series of all time. The original manga has been published in over 250,000,000 copies of weekly comics and comic books worldwide.” There’s also a new, 3D CGI animated feature film in the works in Japan, and DeSanto is working to produce a live-action version.
I am so insanely hype for this and Kenji Kamiyama’s 009 RE:CYBORG film. Marcus To has hit it out of the park with the art on this book and I hope the writing is just as good. It’s also being published by archaia, and archaia is pretty much guaranteed quality.
Thanks for Tumbling this, I’m glad that we finally get to start showing some pages to this book. Also the colourist Ian Herring is killing it on this and making my work a million times better.
What we’ve been up to gets released for a sneak peek.
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