Well, not really…(I wouldn’t dare claim to be after my rant a couple weeks ago heh), but I have now had a story published in Japan! So I guess I’m as close as I can be!

Recently UDON was invited to be part of the new Street Fighter Art Comic Anthology (ストリートファイター アート・コミック・アンソロジー), by Japanese publisher Enterbrain(best known as publishers of Japanese video game magazines such as Famitsu and Arcadia). UDON did a 20 page story in the book which also contains new material from SF manga artists Masahiko Nakahira, Masomi Kanzaki, Mami Itou, and others.

And since I did a good job on the Target-exclusive mini-comic for SFIV, the boss man let me write the UDON story! It was pretty fun, and I think it turned out pretty great even though I had a lot things to work around (Enterbrain wanted Guile included, and an SFIV character, and I had to write a story that made sense with 5 different artists). I got to work with most of the UDON crew as each chapter of the 20 page story is by a different UDON artist - Chamba, Long Vo, Joe Vriens, Omar Dogan, and Joe Ng (with inks/colours on the Ng part by Crystal Reid/Espen Grundetjern).

Above is the cover and some sample pages from the UDON story if you want to check it out (though you’ll need to know Japanese to read it heh). Hopefully UDON can put out an English edition sooner rather than later, I’m pretty proud of it!

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