Naoki Urasawa’s 2008 mystery-thriller Billy Bat will receive an official English release from Kana,the manga imprint of comics publisher Abrams ComicArts. Co-authored with Takashi Nagasaki, the series will 20 volumes.
Publisher summary:
Billy Bat is a historical conspiracy-thriller meta-manga spanning multiple millennia following a Japanese American comic artist’s search for the truth regarding the origins of his character “Billy Bat.” It’s 1949 Los Angeles, and Kevin Yamagata, a Japanese American comic book author, is drawing his bestselling character, Billy Bat: a quick-witted detective who is, unsurprisingly, a cartoon bat. Everything is going well for Kevin until he discovers an unfortunate truth: He may have unintentionally plagiarized his beloved character from a drawing he once saw in Japan. Devastated by the news, Kevin returns to war-torn Japan to find the drawing’s original artist . . . but the character’s origins turn out to be far older and more perplexing than he had ever imagined.
Volume 1 will contain 200 pages and measures 5 in. x 7.5 in. (standard US manga size).
Info:
https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/billy-bat-volume-1_9781419780080/
