Pamela Lokhun also joined us for Leek & Sushi’s Manga Show last year,
with a story of cross cultural love and cross dressing. This year she
returns with a story inspired by her cat Jimmy. The feline protagonist
decides her owner needs a bit more company instead of sitting on her
own knitting all day. She sets out to catch a friend.

You can see more of Pamela’s rather luscious work over at Pencilled
Dreams

Preview pages are below the fold!

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Jade Sarson is an illustration student with a monitor tan and an
aversion to coffee. Her story about love and gifts was included in
Leek & Sushi’s manga show, and she has two short stories in Manga
Cupcakes.

One story is about an epic battle of wits between a tea house waitress
and the owner of the coffee shop that’s just opened across the road,
and the other is about a tanning salon obsessed goddess who brings
about the apocalypse. They are both great fun, and a pleasure to look
at (see the previews below!)

You can find Jade Sarson on Facebook and on Deviant Art. Check her out.

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Arcadia Ronin will be at the MCM which is this weekend already, squeee! She is the lord and master of a webcomic called Totem Chronicles, with a kicking girl protagonist and magic and stuff. It’s cool.

Her story in Leek and Sushi is a modern fairytale with trolls and pretty things and a pot of gold. Good fun and with a sweet message. Check out the previews!

And catch her this weekend. Who’s going?

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Morag, better known as Sun Kitten, is one of the stalwarts of Sweatdrop. She is known for being extremely prolific and a great storyteller. Her “Reya”, published by Markosia is up for an Eagle Award in the new manga category. You can vote, too, if you follow the link.

More books by Morag are published with Sweatdrop, and you can see many of them on her website.

For the Jiman Competition, she drew a little encore of her four book saga “Looking for the Sun”, which was one of the first books I picked up from Sweatdrop, and rather good. In this short, the characters wander the worlds looking for the sun.

Previews to be added later.

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Meet Inko

INKO is a very clever parakeet from Japan. She draws manga and also
maintains a blog at http://inko-redible.blogspot.com. See,
INKO-redible? Clever, right? Yes.
She drew a wonderfully dark-but-hopeful story included in Leek & Sushi
II: Manga Cupcakes. It’s about feeling hopeless, worthless, down on
your luck, and feeling like everything around you is trying to [...]

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Meet Patrick Warren.

Patrick Warren is a UK manga veteran, with two rather English books to his name: the Manga Shakespeare adaptation of Richard III and Henry VIII. You can find his artwork and animations on his site,  I suggest you check it out, there’s some good stuff there. His contribution to Leek & Sushi’s book is [...]

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Meet Yuri Kore

Yuri Kore won this year’s Manga Jiman competition with her story “The
Boy Who Runs From The Sun” (Congratulations!). She was a new face to
us in the UK, but has been drawing and publishing her own manga in
Korea for a long time. Now she’s moved to the UK and is ready to take
over.
You [...]

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Meet Kate Holden AKA Darthmoongoose

You know Kate Holden, right? Also known as Darth Mongoose, she hands
out helpful advice to her fellow comic creators from her sage’s cave
in Cumbria. Well, she probably has some kind of house, but the sage on
a mountain image is cooler when there’s a cave.
Anyway. You can read her webcomic Fan Dan [...]

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Meet Kairi Moon AKA Karen Yumi Lusted

Meet the Cake Makers is a series of blog posts where we introduce you
to the wonderful people who contributed to the new Leek & Sushi: Manga
Cupcake book. Who are they? What did they send in? Where can
you find their work online?
We start with the people who will also be at the upcoming MCM [...]

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Leek & Sushi in da house!

You can pre-order the new Leek & Sushi book Manga Cupcakes from today. If you do, you’ll get it before the MCM Expo, where it’s officially launched. Get it before anyone else! Brag to your friends! Yush.

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