UGLYDOLL: MY HERO? ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL
Latest Collectible UGLYDOLL Installment Features 10 Full-Color Superhero-Inspired Stories
San Francisco, CA, March 19, 2014 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media),
the largest distributor and licensor of anime and manga in North
America, delivers a whimsical new breed of pop culture champions with
the debut of the latest original graphic novel release from the Perfect
Square imprint. UGLYDOLL: MY HERO? launches on April 1st, is rated ‘A’ for All Ages and will carry a print MSRP of $7.99 U.S. / $9.99 CAN.
A digital version will also be available beginning on April 1st for $4.99 U.S. / CAN from the Perfect Square App, which has titles available for the Apple iPad® and iPad® Mini. The Perfect Square App is available from the iTunes store. Fans can also find a digital version of the title for the NOOK, Kindle Fire, and Kobo ereaders, as well as in the iBooks and GooglePlay Stores.
Do
you need a hero? We do too. We want to help, we really do. But after
all the suiting up, choosing powers, assembling a super team and
rescuing cats from trees, there's no time for pie. And we really like
pie. So maybe we're not cut out for saving the world. Don't you agree,
Ice-Bat? Oh, wait, he's off defending the Uglyverse. We'll ask him when
he's done. Right after we finish dessert.
MY HERO? features
10 full-color stories by veteran UGLYDOLL writer and artists Travis
Nichols, Ian McGinty, and Phillip Jacobson. In this new release,
Uglydoll co-creator Sun-Min Kim, Theo
Ellsworth, renowned pop culture artist/writer Junko Mizuno, and two
talented design teams from Japan—MAD BARBARIANS and DEVILROBOTS—also
lend their considerable talents.
“Uglydolls
may not be the first characters to come to mind when you think of super
heroes, but they rise hilariously to the occasion in UGLYDOLL: MY
HERO?,” says Traci Todd, Senior Editor, Children’s Publishing,
“Frostbite, Ice-Bat's alter-ego, is back, and he's joined by a whole
host of Ugly heroes... and anti-heroes. Some of the stories in MY HERO
are epic, some are about cookies, but they're all about being true to
yourself—the most heroic act of all.”
David
Horvath and Sun-Min Kim are renowned for creating the world of
Uglydoll. Inspired by a love letter David drew for Sun-Min, Uglydoll
began as a line of handmade plush dolls and has since grown into an
evergreen, multi-million dollar brand loved internationally by fans all
ages. Their works can be found around the world, from the MOMA in Tokyo
and the Louvré in Paris, to the windows of the Uglydoll shop in Seoul.
Based on a vision to build a world that showed the whimsical twists and
turns that make people unique, both inside and out, and to demonstrate
how “ugly” means unique and celebrating who you are is the new beautiful. This UGLYDOLL comic is also inspired by some of Sun-Min and David’s personal heroes from the pop art and comic art world.
VIZ
Media’s Perfect Square imprint focuses on delivering original comics,
graphic novels and other books with an emphasis on strong storytelling,
eye-popping graphics, empowering themes, and a dash of irreverence, that
captures the imagination of a whole new generation.
For more information on UGLYDOLLS, please visit www.uglydolls.com.
Additional information on titles published by Perfect Square is available at www.PerfectSquare.com.
For more information on other manga titles from VIZ Media, please visit www.VIZ.com.
About UGLYDOLL® & Pretty Ugly, LLC
The
Uglydoll brand was launched in 2002 by Pretty Ugly, LLC with offices in
Los Angeles and Green Brook, NJ. The brand is distinguished by David
& Sun-Min’s unique aesthetic and voice defining ‘ugly’ as
distinctive, different, and good. The award-winning Uglydoll characters
appear in a variety of toys, books, apparel, and other licensed products
that are available in thousands of stores, worldwide. In its first ten
years, Pretty Ugly has produced and sold millions of Uglydoll items. For more information, please visit www.uglydolls.com.
About VIZ Media, LLC
Headquartered
in San Francisco, California, VIZ Media distributes, markets and
licenses the best anime and manga titles direct from Japan. Owned by
three of Japan's largest manga and animation companies, Shueisha Inc.,
Shogakukan Inc., and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, Co., Ltd., VIZ
Media has the most extensive library of anime and manga for English
speaking audiences in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland,
Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. With its popular digital manga
anthology WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP and blockbuster properties like NARUTO,
BLEACH and INUYASHA, VIZ Media offers cutting-edge action, romance and
family friendly properties for anime, manga, science fiction and fantasy
fans of all ages. VIZ Media properties are available as graphic
novels, DVDs, animated television series, feature films, downloadable
and streaming video and a variety of consumer products. Learn more
about VIZ Media, anime and manga at www.VIZ.com.
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