UDON

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UDON
Type Entertainment Corporation
Founded 2000
Headquarters Richmond Hill, Ontario
Key people Erik Ko, UDON Chief
Jim Zubkavich, Project Manager
Matt Moylan, Marketing Manager
Marshall Dillon, Managing Editor
Marina Siu-Chong, Assistant Editor
Industry Comics

UDON Entertainment Corporation is a studio (or "art collective") of Asian-influenced comic book creators which provides creative services to the entertainment industry. The company is also a publisher of comic books, graphic novels, and art books, as well as English editions of Japanese manga and Korean manhwa titles. Erik Ko is its Chief of Operations. The studio is best known as the publisher of the Street Fighter comic books series, based on the Capcom video game franchise.

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[edit] Overview

It appears to have begun operations in March 2001. It was affiliated with Studio XD; in March 2004, UDON announced a partnership to release comics under Devil's Due Publishing. UDON's first offering was the Street Fighter comic book series, launching in September 2003. They would add a Darkstalkers comic series to their line in November 2004. In October 2005, UDON reorganized its operations and became a full-fledged publisher. Erik Ko revealed that the lengthy break in the Summer of 2005 was to recover from a licensing deal with Capcom, which saw UDON doing artwork for Capcom Fighting Evolution. Although UDON appreciated the opportunity to work on the game, and to strengthen their ties with the video game maker, it taxed their resources, and left them behind schedule on their comics. In October 2005, UDON released Street Fighter II #0, the sequel to their Street Fighter comic; it was followed in early 2006 with the long awaited launch of Rival Schools. Erik Ko discusses this in an interview with Newsarama that can be read here.

In December 2007 at the New York Anime Festival, UDON announced that it would be publishing three new Street Fighter comic book series in 2008. These include Street Fighter II Turbo (12-issue series), Street Fighter Legends: Chun-Li (4-issue mini), and Street Fighter III (6-issue series). [1]

[edit] Publishing

[edit] Comic book series

[edit] Translated manga/manhwa

  • ROBOT (Japanese anthology/art book)
  • APPLE (Korean anthology/art book)
  • Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams
  • Street Fighter Alpha
  • Street Fighter: Sakura Ganbaru
  • Street Fighter II: The Manga
  • Street Fighter III: Ryu Final
  • Dorothy of Oz
  • Star Project Chiro
  • Magical JxR
  • Dear Waltz
  • Daring Students' Association
  • Chronicles of the Grim Peddler
  • Evyione: Ocean Fantasy
  • Reading Club

[edit] Art books

  • Street Fighter: Eternal Challenge
  • Street Fighter Tribute
  • UDON’s Art of Capcom
  • Ōkami: Official Complete Works
  • Mega Man Zero: Official Complete Works

[edit] Work for other companies

[edit] Video games

[edit] Comics

[edit] Misc

[edit] References

  1. ^ [http://www.udonentertainment.com/blog/?p=63 "New Street Fighter Comics!" press release, Dec 11, 2007

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