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Dav Pilkey and Motojiro to create Captain Underpants Manga from Scholastic Graphix subsequent 12 months
Captain Underpants was the terribly promoting collection of chapter books by Dav Pilkey that spun off the much more profitable Canine Man. And now Captain Underpants is being changed into comics as nicely, or fairly, manga…
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- Captain Underpants: The First Epic Manga by Dav Pilkey and Motojiro
Scholastic’s Graphix will publish Captain Underpants: The First Epic Manga by Dav Pilkey and Japanese manga creator Motojiro, adapting the unique e-book. Motojiro is finest recognized for drawing kids’s manga, together with Asahi Shimbun’s Time Warp and the Battle Courageous collection.
“It’s a large honor to see Motojiro’s rendering of the Captain Underpants illustrations into manga. His vibrant artwork impressed me to dig deeper, write new dialogue, and flesh out the story even additional. Followers of the collection might be thrilled concerning the new look and new content material, and followers of manga might be impressed with Motojiro’s dynamic model. I’m grateful to Motojiro for his assist in taking Captain Underpants to a complete new degree and thrilling format that I hope will create a brand new technology of readers.” – Dav Pilkey
“Dav Pilkey is without doubt one of the most inspiring, inventive, and influential storytellers of our time. This reimagined Captain Underpants e-book has all of it—motion, journey, humor, coronary heart, heroes—and a complete lot of enjoyable. It is a pleasure to work on Captain Underpants: The First Epic Manga—a e-book that can captivate current followers and encourage a brand new technology of children to like studying.” – Ken Geist, VP and writer, Pilkey Publishing, Scholastic.
The collection will even embody Pilkey’s animated page-flipping Flip-o-Ramas, and might be in color, learn left to proper, and printed on the seventh of April, 2026, within the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Will this outsell Canine Man? Perhaps… it is definitely the one factor exterior of Asterix that would proper now…
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