Swan Lake by Ping Zhu

Nobrow is a publisher of and unique comics, books and prints. They aim to provide an independent platform for graphic art, Illustration and art comics in the UK and abroad.

From their site;

…our books had to be somehow different. It wouldn’t be enough to champion new artists and content alone, the books themselves had to stand out, to ‘deserve to be printed’.

There are some absolutely beautiful items on their site

Ouroboros by Ben Newman

The way Western designers and illustrators sucked all the life and energy out of the original Japanese artwork always amazed me.

Poor Mega Man got it bad. 

I bought a guidebook for Mega Man 2 on the NES and the cover was similarly stale but on the back inside cover was a tiny manga version of Mega Man and his foes and I would study it.

It was one of first times I saw manga. Around the same time you could pick up import Gameboy games in Peats of Parnell Street in Dublin at half price.

They marked the price down because all the packaging and instrucitons were in Japanese but that was the main reason I would buy them! Penguin Boy and PitMan were two Japanese Gameboy games I got there and the tiny, one colour instructions booklet were just as much fun as the actual game.