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Dark Horse and Humble Bundle announced a bundle of Kazuo Koike written manga today The bundle appears to contain everything Koike wrote that Dark Horse has the rights to, except New Lone Wolf & Cub. Courtesy of Dark Horse and Humble Bundle It turns out Dark Horse has the rights to quite a bit The Kazuo Koike[...]

Kazuo Koike, the creator of Lone Wolf and Cub (along with artist Goseki Kojima) and one of the most prolific creators of manga, has died His official Twitter account and various news outlets reported that Koike, 82, was hospitalized for pneumonia and passed away on Wednesday. Koike is the creator of Lone Wolf and Cub and[...]

What we do know is that in addition to producing along with Marissa McMahon (wife of WWE's Shane McMahon), Lin is also expected to direct. Originally created by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima as a manga series, Lone Wolf and Cub tells the story of a Shogun's executioner who sets out on a quest for revenge with[...]

The Criterion Collection have produced 2K restorations of the original 6 live action films to be released on March 27th 2017 in the UK (amazon link), which seem to have been previously released in the states. Here's Paul Pope's art for the box set: The films, based on (writer) Kazuo Koike and (artist) Goseki Kojima's manga of the same name about Ogami[...]

Seventy-nine year old Kazuo Koike, co-creator of Lone Wolf & Cub and Crying Freeman took to Reddit last night for a question and answer session about his work past, present and future, During which he recounted a trip he took to San Diego Comic Con "while carrying a real Japanese sword with me[...]

A new conflict begins. New Lone Wolf and Cub is not a nostalgic cash-in but an equally impassioned project by original series creator and writer Kazuo Koike The original series ended back in 1976 It was first translated into English in the 1980s Dark Horse published the final, 28th volume of the manga series back on[...]

Adi Tantimedh writes for Bleeding Cool: At NYCC, Lone Wolf & Cub creator Kazuo Koike offered a pro-tip for writers and aspiring writers who struggle to write their stories: Create the villain first. For Koike, once a writer has a well-defined villain with motives and the antagonism he or she might wreck, it gives something for the heroes[...]

Adi Tantimedh writes for Bleeding Cool:  During a roundtable interview with other manga masters to highlight Wikia's Masters of Animanga project, Lone Wolf & Cub creator Kazuo Koike revealed that he was far from done with the series and is writing even more sequels. This is probably not news to manga readers in Japan, but the New[...]

Dark Horse officially confirmed that they are currently translating the sequel to classic Samurai manga series Lone Wolf & Cub for release in 2014. New Lone Wolf & Cub, or Shin Kozure Okami, is written by original series creator Kazuo Koike and drawn by Hideki Mori.  The artist of the original series Goseki Kojima having passed[...]

First up I chat with legendary gensakusha and creator of Lone Wolf & Cub, Kazuo Koike Although our time together was brief, and we had to speak through an interpreter, it was a great honour that I'll never forget. Thanks to Dark Horse Comics I also spoke with Slipknot & Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor about[...]

Deadline reports Kamala Films have acquired the rights to 1970s Kazuo Koike-created Lone Wolf and Cub, and hired screenwriters David and Janet Peoples to adapt, and eventually Justin Lin to direct The iconic manga centers around Ogami Itto, a top executioner working for the shogun in feudal Japan, whose rivals murder his wife and frame[...]