Billy Bat
It’s 1949 Los Angeles, and Kevin Yamagata, a Japanese American comic book author, is drawing his bestselling character, Billy Bat: a quick-witted detective who is, unsurprisingly, a cartoon bat. Everything is going well for Kevin until he discovers an unfortunate truth: He may have unintentionally plagiarized his beloved character from a drawing he once saw in Japan. Devastated by the news, Kevin returns to war-torn Japan to find the drawing’s original artist . . . but the character’s origins turn out to be far older and more perplexing than he had ever imagined. (Source: Kana) Note: Won the Max und Moritz Prize for "Best international Comic" in 2014.
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Coverage
YOFUKA has tracked Billy Bat across 3 stories spanning 6 individual articles from 4 distinct sources, with the most recent dispatch landing 6 days ago. Recent reporting includes “Interview: Kana Editor Kristiina Korpus on Publishing Billy Bat in English”, “Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki's Billy Bat Volume 1 Launches in English”, and “Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki's Billy Bat Manga Arrives in English from Kana on June 2”.
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