We’ll be talking about this title in more detail next week, but for now I just wanted to show you a photo of what the first book in The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus Edition looks like…because just showing you the front cover image wouldn’t really suggest what sets it apart from the regular edition—the sheer physicality of it. The idea behind an omnibus is, of course, to collect a lot of story together—but stack up all the flatness of those hundreds of sheets of paper, and suddenly a medium often described as two-dimensional has now very much acquired a third. For the Kurosagi omnibus, we wanted to take advantage of it to re-express one of the series’ most distinctive aspects: its...
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Art of Satoshi Kon is out now! We’re celebrating the release of this incredible new book by giving you the chance to win some awesome prizes! One grand prize winner will receive a copy of The Art of Satoshi Kon and a copy of the acclaimed Satoshi Kon film Paprika! One runner up will receive a copy of The Art of Satoshi Kon. To enter: Follow Dark Horse Comics on Twitter and RT this tweet. Good luck! Check out free preview pages from The Art of Satoshi Kon, available now! Check out the official rules below: RT Sweepstakes: 1. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Twitter. 2. To enter: Follow @DarkHorseComics on...
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We’re honored this week to release the third book in Dark Horse’s Satoshi Kon program that began last fall with his manga Satoshi Kon’s OPUS, and continued this spring through his collaboration with Mamoru Oshii, Seraphim 266613336 Wings. This week’s release, The Art of Satoshi Kon, focuses on the work that gained him international acclaim—that is, his anime. Yet we hope that his anime will become even better known through this book; his thoughts about it and his working process are included in Kon’s notes, translated, as was Seraphim and OPUS, by Zack Davisson (also the person behind the English version of Shigeru Mizuki’s Showa: A History of Japan, which won the Eisner Award last month for...
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You’ve given Satoshi Kon’s OPUS a great reception, and we’re happy to see people becoming more aware of the late director’s earlier career as a manga artist. Out this week is our second manga by Satoshi Kon: Seraphim 266613336 Wings. This book is doubly special because it is a collaboration between Kon and Ghost in the Shell’s Mamoru Oshii; I can’t think of a comparative example where two such talented film directors worked together on a manga. I’d like to take a moment to thank once again the translator of both OPUS and Seraphim, Zack Davisson. We were very fortunate to have his involvement on both these books, and I hope you’ll also look forward to his work in The Art of Satoshi...
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Remembering A Master Of Anime Filmmaking This August, Dark Horse remembers an animation legend and his works with The Art of Satoshi Kon. A director who blazed a brilliant animation career before his tragic passing in 2010, Kon is immortalized in this special hardcover volume that covers the whole of his incredible career. Encompassing everything from illustrations for his movies Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress, and Paprika and his television series Paranoia Agent, to his manga, commercial art, and more, The Art of Satoshi Kon is an oversized, 136-page tribute to a master of anime filmmaking. Including a special appreciation from Darren Aronofsky, The Art of Satoshi Kon celebrates a lifetime of Kon’s work,...
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Satoshi Kon himself said it, there on page 358 of OPUS, the manga by Kon that Dark Horse released last November—Kon’s Seraphim 266613336 Wings, which Dark Horse will release at the end of February, is unfinished, just like OPUS. With OPUS, the fact the manga is unfinished is actually worked into the plot of the manga itself (and also, I think, into the themes of the manga), and it would have thus been something of a spoiler to mention it beforehand. Seraphim is unfinished for a different set of reasons. Of course, ultimately, the reason that both manga are unfinished is because Kon has passed away, but when a respected creator dies, it’s often the case that because there will be no more new works from that...
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When the brilliant Satoshi Kon died in 2010 at the age of 46, it was first and foremost a loss of a human being, someone loved by his family and friends. But of course, Kon had also been known to people around the world he never met, through the anime he directed—four films: Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers and Paprika, and one television series, Paranoia Agent. Lesser known is the fact that before Kon began directing anime, he had already honed his graphic storytelling skills to a high level as one of Japan’s most talented manga artists. Dark Horse is honored this week to release his last long-form manga from that era, the 380-page Satoshi Kon’s OPUS. Satoshi Kon wrote and drew OPUS in 1995-96, when...
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