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Marquette Tribune: British artist creates Japanese comic book form of the Bible
...British artist Siku, creator of The Manga Bible, said on the Bible's Web site that earlier attempts to use Western artwork to attract younger audiences to the Bible were dated. Manga, he said, penetrated into Western pop culture through cartoons, blockbuster movies like "The Matrix" and "Kill Bill" and music group Gorillaz's animated personas. It was the most cutting-edge option for his Bible, he said. In The Manga Bible, Siku said the depictions of Jesus and other biblical characters were inspired by super heroes. In Jesus' first appearance, he is silhouetted to give him a "hard-edged, gritty, stranger-walks-into-town" image...more...
The New Testament version of "The Manga Bible" was actually published a year ago in Britain and is only now getting a US release, The Old Testament version is also available in Britain. There appear to be a few other manga versions of Bible stories already out there including this one