The worldwide success of a Madrid comic artist in the cradle of manga

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• JOSE MARÍA ROBLES

  @josmrobles

  Madrid

Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - 01:28

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Every Spanish cartoonist has three options before him: working with the native comic reader in mind, publishing in France and trying to project himself from there to the rest of the European market, or adapting his style to attract the attention of superhero publishers in the United States. ,

Ken Niimura

chose the fourth: to try his luck in Japan. Settling in the cradle of the manga was an option out of the reach of most of his colleagues, but not for this thirty-year-old son of Japanese and

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