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Kazuo Koike's samurai epic is a tour de force of graphic fiction, and Lone Wolf and Cub Gallery Edition features selections of the late Goseki Kojima's spectacular illustration reproduced at original size on heavy-stock art paper to preserve the work in detail as it exists today, as close as one can come to owning these rarest of artworks. Including in its entirety the final titanic clash between Ogami Ittō and Yagyu Retsudo. this deluxe volume is must for collectors and for enthusiasts of the finest comic art ever created.
Reproduced from high-resolution scans at original size from the original art created over forty years ago!
Accompanied by corresponding reproductions in English.
Lone Wolf & Cub is an internationally acclaimed classic of graphic fiction.
About the Author
Kazuo Koike (小池 一夫, Koike Kazuo) was a prolific Japanese manga writer, novelist and entrepreneur.Early in Koike's career, he studied underGolgo 13creator Takao Saito and served as a writer on the series.Koike, along with artist Goseki Kojima, made the mangaKozure Okami(Lone Wolf and Cub), and Koike also contributed to the scripts for the 1970s film adaptations of the series, which starred famous Japanese actor Tomisaburo Wakayama. Koike and Kojima became known as the "Golden Duo" because of the success of Lone Wolf and Cub.Another series written by Koike,Crying Freeman, which was illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami, was adapted into a 1995 live-action film by French director Christophe Gans.Kazuo Koike started the Gekika Sonjuku, a college course meant to teach people how to be mangaka.In addition to his more violent, action-oriented manga, Koike, an avid golfer, has also written golf manga.
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