Author: Sean Michael Wilson

Sean Michael Wilson is a Harvey and Eisner award nominated comic book writer from Scotland, who lives in Japan. He has had more than a dozen books published with a variety of US, UK and Japanese publishers, including: a comic book version of A Christmas Carol ('Best of 2008’, Sunday Times), AX:alternative manga ( 'Best ten books of 2010’, Publishers Weekly), Parecomic (with an introduction by Noam Chomsky, his first contribution to a book in graphic form). In 2016 his book 'The Faceless Ghost' was nominated for the prestigious Eisner Book Awards, and won a medal in the 2016 'Independent Publisher Book Awards'. In 2017, his book Secrets of the Ninja won an International Manga Award from the Japanese government - he is the first British person to receive this award. He is currently writing books for big Japanese publisher Kodansha, being the only British writer to do so. In fact, he is the only pro manga writer from Britain who lives in Japan. He has written a unique line of Japanese history/martial arts/Samurai books, including The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure, The 47 Ronin, and a biography of Musashi, with more on the way. For NBM he has written The Story of Lee and Breaking the 10. His main influences remain British and American creators - such as Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Eddie Campbell and Harvey Pekar. He often gives lectures and talks about comics in schools and colleges. http://seanmichaelwilson.weebly.com

Breaking the 10 banded set

In September you have the first chance to get volume 1 and volume 2 our of book with NBM together as one banded set, at a special price:

Pages from the book can be seen HERE

Meanwhile, I am currently more than half way through writing volume 3 of our other book with NBM, ‘The Story of Lee’. Currently, Lee is in a serious discussion while walking home with her Uncle Jun, via Chambers Street and Middle Meadow Walk – two well known streets in my hometown of Edinburgh.

Nice!

And related news – the 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards results were just announced and our book, ‘Portraits of Violence’ got a award!

Category 29. GRAPHIC NOVEL/DRAWN BOOK – GENERAL
BRONZE MEDAL: Portraits of Violence: An Illustrated History of Radical Thinking

The artist from our Breaking the 10 book, Michiru Morikawa, has one chapter in the Portraits of Violence book. That’s my 2nd medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards, and happy to get it.

Sean

I heard a voice…

One of my favourite things about our BREAKING THE 10 series for NBM is putting in jokes and farcical aspects along with the serious points questioning religion.

This is page 1 of a scene in volume 2 when David announces his new Korean goddess.

NBM’s page for the book HERE

And more pages from the book can be seen at my web site

Librarians of taste

Nice to see our book with NBM picked in the ALA midwinter show. Those librarians have taste!

Volume 2 of our book BREAKING THE 10 came out this month.

“David becomes increasingly more desperate, with his extreme behaviour causing fights with everyone who cares for him: with the devilish Mr Black and the saintly Mr White and even with his loving parents. But his quest goes on, driving him to break the rest of the 10 commandments in order to draw out the elusive divinity to face a grief stricken man. Until, finally, he is faced with the most serious commandment all: ‘Thou shalt not kill.’
Will he do it? Or will God stop him?”

NBM’s page for the book HERE

And more pages from the book can be seen at my WEB SITE

Breaking the 10 – out today!

PUBLISHED TODAY!

Volume 2 of our book BREAKING THE 10 is out today on amazon, 1st of Feb, which completes the two part series, and I’m very pleased with it.

Sean Michael Wilson and Michiru Morikawa

David becomes increasingly more desperate, with his extreme behaviour causing fights with everyone who cares for him: with the devilish Mr Black and the saintly Mr White and even with his loving parents. But his quest goes on, driving him to break the rest of the 10 commandments in order to draw out the elusive divinity to face a grief stricken man. Until, finally, he is faced with the most serious commandment all: ‘Thou shalt not kill.’ Will he do it? Or will God stop him?

NBM’s page for the book HERE

And more pages from the book can be seen at my web site HERE

Breaking the 10 review

Breaking the 10 volume 2 is available now in Diamond Dec Preview catalog.

And here is their mention of volume 1, which is listed again this month:

Get volume 1 and 2 in Decembers Previews catalog, page 377,

Code for volume 2: DEC17 1696

With Volume 1 of the book re-listed, code: DEC171697

NBM’s page for the book HERE

And more pages from the book can be seen on my website HERE

Breaking the 10 – is cool!

Our Breaking the 10 volume 2 has a ‘Certified Cool’ stamp of recommendation from Diamond Distributors.

Alright!

Get it in Decembers Previews catalog, page 377, Code: DEC17 1696

With Volume 1 of the book re-listed, code: DEC171697

NBM’s page for the book HERE

And more pages from the book can be seen on my website HERE

Breaking the 10 vol 2 nice mention

Nice of Down the Tubes website to do a page on our BREAKING THE 1O book:

Click on the above image to go to the web site.

Order it from Previews December Customer Order Form, page 27 (or p377 in the full catalogue), under the publishers name ‘NBM'(and with a cute ‘Certified Cool’ stamp of recommendation). Diamond Code: DEC17 1696

With Volume 1 of the book re-listed, code: DEC171697

NBM’s page for the book HERE

Breaking the 10 volume 2 – listing now!

After quite a bit of difficulty and rearranging of the book’s ending Volume 2 of our BREAKING THE 10 is finished… and is presently listed in this month’s Previews catalogue from Diamond distributor.

Order it from Previews Customer Order Form, page 27 (or p377 in the full catalogue), under the publishers name ‘NBM’ (and with a cute ‘Certified Cool’ stamp of recommendation).

Diamond Code: DEC17 1696

With Volume 1 of the book re-listed under code: DEC171697

Despite the trouble we had I’m very proud of this book and really looking forward to seeing volume 2 come out printed well.

Nice!

NBM’s page for the book HERE

And more pages from the book can be seen at my WEB SITE

CAT – Comic Art Tokyo

I will be a guest at the CAT event in Tokyo this week, Nov 25th, alongside my artist colleagues Akiko Shimojima and Michiru Morikawa (the artist of our book BREAKING THE 10 book, published NBM. Our talk is at 11.30am on the topic of ‘international collaborations’

Be there or be onigiri!

コミックアート東京は、世界のコミックカルチャー文化について学びながらその楽しみを共有し合う、コミュニティを中心としたインタラクティブなイベントです。それらを体現するため、このイベントはディスカッション、手軽なワークショップ、アート作品の展示、著者自身による朗読、そしてライブアートといったアクティビティを展開しています。

第2回目となる2017年度のイベントは、11月25日(土)にテンプル大学ジャパンキャンパスにて開催いたします。

Comic Art Tokyo is a community-focused, interactive festival with the goal of fostering mutual appreciation and education about the various comic traditions from around the world. To that end, our festival includes discussions, hands-on workshops, gallery exhibitions, author readings, and live art demonstrations.

Our sophomore event will be held at Temple University Japan Campus on Saturday, November 25th.

http://www.comicarttokyo.com/

Story of Lee reviews on twitter

Nice to see a smart reader enjoying our book THE STORY OF LEE and posting a review on twitter. Grace posted about volume 1 recently and this week posted us her recommendation of volume 2.

We are working on volume 3 now Grace!