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Award-winning comic book writer Sean Michael Wilson and manga artist

About the Author

SEAN MICHAEL WILSON isa Harvey- and Eisner-award-nominated comic book writer who has authored morethan a dozen graphic novels and manga comics, including adaptations ofThe Book of Five RingsandThe 47 Ronin.He is also the editor of the critically acclaimed anthologyAX- A Collection of Alternative Manga(one ofPublishers Weekly's "Best Ten Books of 2010"). Originally from Scotland, he now lives in Japan.

AKIKO SHIMOJIMA is a comic and manga artist from Tokyo, Japan. A teacher of digital comics art at a school in Tokyo, she is the illustrator ofThe 47 Roninand has contributed work to many other publications.