Peepo Choo: Volume One: Volume One

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Felipe Smith, the first American to make it in the Japanese manga big leagues, returns to the West hitting a grand slam with his Japanese debut. When teenage Otaku Milton first sets foot in the heart of Tokyo, he is shocked to see hustlers and prostitutes instead of the cosplaying crack-ups of his favourite cartoons and comics. Where is his animated version of Tokyo How could he not have known about this dark side And if he can't find what he was looking for, why did he go in the first place!

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"Now that Smith is producing works for a Japanese audience under the editorial guidelines of Kodansha--doing what Paul Pope in the 1990s ultimately could not do--it's going to be fascinating to see how his already amazing talents change and grow."--Jason Thompson, ComiXology

Author Bio

Felipe Smith was born in 1978 inAkron, Ohio. Raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Felipe comes from the most unlikely of backgrounds for a manga artist published in Japan. Educated in an international school, while other kids where playing soccer and basketball, Felipe was considered the school's artist. Upon moving to the US for college, Felipe studied at Chicago's Institute for the Arts where he was exposed to a number of art styles and forms of visual animation. Influenced early by the hyper-real designs found in Heavy Metal and later on by cartoon styles found in Japanese animation, Felipe's art style is a unique blend of East and West that is destinctively Felipe. Felipe work has been published by IMAGE and TokyoPop; with his first serialized comic MBQ receiving critical acclaim. Felipe went on to win a number of comic awards, eventually earning him international attention. Now working in Tokyo, Felipe is currently drawing his culture clash-romance for Japan's largest publisher Kodansha in their experiemental comic anthology magazine Morning Two.