Alert reader sub_divided notes some suspicious similarities between Samurai Zombie, one of the Rising Stars of Manga finalists, and some frames in the manga series Blade of the Immortal.
Telophase spotted it too but adds
The artist has great talent and I love the detail and the hatching and the design, but the poses were a little too close to the references. I would absolutely love to see this artist teamed up with a really great writer, to see what (he? she?) could do with that.
(Via Irresponsible Pictures—welcome back, Pata!)
About Brigid Alverson
Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started
MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for
School Library Journal,
Publishers Weekly Comics Week,
Comic Book Resources, the
Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and
Robot 6. She also edits the
Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
