Kentaro Takekuma
Author of Super Mario Adventures
Works by Kentaro Takekuma
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- Birthdate
- 1960-08-29
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Japan
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Super Mario Adventures by KentarÅ Takekuma
Never knew Wario's canonical villain origin story stems from Mario being a jerk.
Huge hit with my Mario-obsessed kid. Many of the licensed books in English for little kids have pictures of characters but no plot and had been a disappointment, but this had new stories of his favourites going on adventures. Perfect!
A cute fun collection of Mario comics from the early 90's Nintendo Powers. It's not deep, it's not long, but that's fine. It's a silly Mario adventure.
An off-beat parody of manga "how-to" books, and the manga industry in general, Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga skewers the insipid cliches and formulas that govern the latter with great wit and panache. Their style is hilariously over-the-top but trenchant at the same time. The book covers all the basics of figure drawing and character expression, but my favorite parts were the sections on genres, both popular and obscure. In lesser hands Aihara and Takekuma's bricolage of slapstick humor and critiques of ideology might have ended up off-kilter, but they maintain a manic energy that makes it work.… (more)
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- Works
- 2
- Members
- 212
- Popularity
- #104,834
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 4
- ISBNs
- 4
- Languages
- 1