The Four Color Media Monitor

Otaku Study announced that Udon Entertainment's published a manga biography of the famous Peanuts cartoonist:

UDON Entertainment has announced the upcoming launch of a new series, Manga Biographies, which will bring the lives of some of history’s most interesting and influential individuals to the medium of Japanese manga. The series will debut with Manga Biographies: Charles Schulz, focusing on the life of the renowned creator of the Peanuts comic strip.

Manga Biographies: Charles Schulz is pitched as a 168-page manga graphic novel written and illustrated by Yuzuru Kuki. This authorized biography seeks to cover Schulz’s life, from his early years in Minnesota and his love of drawing to his time in the army and his rise to fame as a beloved cartoonist. The manga aims to present Schulz’s story in a clear and welcoming style suitable for both young and old readers, and touch upon significant historical events that influenced Schulz’s life and highlights how Peanuts impacted those events.

They've certainly developed a clever way of telling the life of a famous figure from outside Japan. The publisher of Street Fighter comics has definitely got a good idea here.

Labels: comic strips, history, indie publishers, manga and anime