(Although I should add that if you're a former illustrator and someone is drawing your stuff for you, you want that person to be a better artist than you are. And that was the artist who sent me this sketch of Ellie, Will, Marco, and Morgan (a new character):Īnd that's why I chose Jinky Coronado–not even knowing that she's the creator of Banzai Girl–or even that she's a girl!Īll I knew was that Jinky saw my characters the way I see my characters. Some of them were FANTASTIC.īut it was clear to me from the very beginning that there was one artist who completely captured the spirit of the characters. I was supposed to choose the artist I liked best from these, which was REALLY hard, because all of them were great. The books, which will be under the umbrella title AVALON HIGH: CORONATION, will be called:Īs far as art goes, the nice people at Tokyopop, who are co-publishing these books with HarperCollins, sent me a LOT of sketches from various topnotch manga artists who were interested in working on the project. The books will take place about two months after the end of AVALON HIGH, and each will pick up where the installment before it left off. It's looking like the AVALON HIGH sequel will be split into three separate mangas (the cover above is from the first of these) which should come out fairly close together. I swear it's better than Christmas when you open up your Inbox and find something like that inside. I know some of you have been waiting for this.
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