By The Editor
June 6, 2006 - 09:30
Kazuo Koike,
co-creator of such masterworks as Lone Wolf and Cub,
Samurai Executioner, Lady Snowblood, Path of the Assassin, and Crying Freeman, will be
appearing for the first time ever at this year’s Comic-Con International in San
Diego. This will be Mr. Koike’s first ever appearance at any US convention.
“All of us at Dark
Horse have been honored to be a part of bringing Mr. Koike’s work to the
English speaking audience,” said Dark Horse president Mike Richardson. “Now we
are honored again to have a part in giving that audience a chance to meet the
manga legend they have come to love and respect.”
Dark Horse
Comics published the landmark in graphic fiction, Lone Wolf and Cub, in its entirety for the first time in
America. An epic samurai adventure of staggering proportions _over 8000 pages_Lone
Wolf and Cub (Kozure Okami in
Japan) is acknowledged worldwide for the brilliant writing of series creator
Kazuo Koike and the groundbreaking cinematic visuals of the late Goseki Kojima.
The story’s unforgettable imagery of stark beauty, kinetic fury, and visceral
thematic power influenced a generation of visual storytellers both in Japan and
in the West.
Since that
time, Dark Horse has gone on to publish such other legendary tales as Samurai Executioner, which proceeded
the legendary Lone Wolf and Cub, Path
of the Assassin, Lady Snowblood, and the first English translation of Crying Freeman in it’s original
Japanese format. Dark Horse has sold over 1,300,000 copies of Koike’s books
worldwide!