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Udon Ent. to Release Breath of Fire, Devil May Cry, Resident Evil 6, Darkstalkers Artbooks
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North American publisher Daisuke Moriyama Art Works Chronicle.
The Breath of Fire: Official Complete Works book will include art work, character designs, monster art, and more, and will cover Breath of Fire I through Breath of Fire V. The Devil May Cry: 3142 Graphic Arts book will collect art for the original Devil May Cry series, and the Devil May Cry: Visual Art book will contain original artwork for the reimagined game. Resident Evil 6 Artworks will contain a complete concept and illustration collection from the game, and Darkstalker Artworks, an English version of Vampire Artworks, will include a new Darkstalkers/Vampire Savior artwork collection.
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The company also revealed that it will release the following graphic novels: Street Fighter Classic volume 2 hard cover, Super Street Fighter Volume 2: Hyper Fighting hard cover, and Street Fighter IV: Wages of Sin hard cover. Street Fighter Classic volume 2 will continue the reprint of Udon's original Street Fighter series, which will collect the end of Street Fighter, the complete Street Fighter II series, and bonus stories. Super Street Fighter Volume 2: Hyper Fighting features characters from Street Fighter III and Street Fighter IV, and Street Fighter IV: Wages of Sin is a Street Fighter IV prequel mini-series. The hard cover edition of Street Fighter IV: Wages of Sin will also include eight bonus stories and a new six-page story about Juri by Takeshi Miyazawa. Street Fighter Classic volume 2 will ship in December 2013, and the other two books are slated for release next year.
Additionally, Udon Entertainment announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Comixology, and revealed its launch titles for the digital comic reading platform: Street Fighter #0-#4, Makeshift Miracle 1, and Super Street Fighter Volume 1: New Generations. Udon will release more titles in its back cata the future, and new releases will come out on Comixology on the same day as they do in print.
Udon also revealed that it is partnering with ShiftyLook to print Matt Moylan and Dax Gordine's Bravoman web comic, which launched last year. The web comic has already inspired a new video game and an animated series. Udon will release the web comic in a hardcover graphic novel in November for US$19.99.
ShiftyLook editor-in-chief told ANN when ShiftyLook launched in February 2012 that it planned to release its web comics in print form once it had enough content to fill out a graphic novel.
Disclaimer: All cover artwork is not final and subject to change.
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