Shirahama returns to do reside drawing periods, panel discussions and e book signings
© Kamome Shirahama, Kodansha
The Toronto Comedian Arts Competition (TCAF) is as soon as once more internet hosting Kamome Shirahamacreator of the Witch Hat Atelier manga, throughout this 12 months’s occasion on Saturday and Sunday. Shirahama will take part in a reside drawing session, panel dialogue and autograph signing periods.
Shirahama launched the Witch Hat Atelier manga in Kodansha‘S Morning two journal July 2016. Kodansha printed the thirteenth compiled quantity of the manga on February 22. Kodansha USA Writer started releasing the collection in English in April 2019 and printed the eleventh quantity in September 2023.
An anime adaptation of the manga was introduced in April 2022.
The story of the manga revolves round Koko, a lady who lives in a small village and has at all times dreamed of turning into a magician. However being born with out a magical aptitude meant that she might by no means change into a wizard and will by no means hope to witness the spark of magic. She gave up her dream. However in the future, a touring wizard named Kiefley got here to her village, and he or she occurred to see him performing magic.
The collection was nominated for the Greatest Comedian Award on the Angoulême Worldwide Comics Competition in January 2019. The manga was additionally nominated for the eleventh Manga Taisho Awards in 2018. The collection ranked within the prime 10 of the checklist of the very best manga for male readers within the 2018 version of Takarajimasha‘S Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This manga is superb!) Information. The manga was included on the American Library Affiliation’s (ALA) Younger Grownup Library Providers Affiliation (YALSA) High Ten Nice Graphic Novels for Teenagers checklist in 2020. The collection received finest manga on the Harvey Awards in October 2020.
Along with creating Witch Hat Atelier, Shirahama has drawn cowl illustrations for comics, amongst others Star Wars: Physician Aphra, Star Wars: The final Jedi, Batgirl and the Birds of Prey, And Surprise Lady.
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