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NY Comics Artist, Jerry Ma has always had our back. I’m less interested in the super hero aspect, but more into the process and concept. I also got included. I enlisted graphics designer Sara Saedi to do an illustration for a short tiny idea I wrote out. My story is about a Robot which was built by the Japanese American inmates in the Concentration Camps during World War II. I wish I can expand that more. Great work, folks. (Washington Post – Shattered)
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Junko Mizuno is a manga artist from Japan now living in San Francisco. We interviewed her for Giant Robot magazine years ago at a time when she hardly spoke English. Now, she speaks English without issues and is busy exploring her comics and artwork. For GR2′s Robots exhibition, we have original pages of a special Japanese edition of Pure Trance. They’re all drawn by hand with some Zipatone added for shading. We have some of these pages available here.