Billy Bat
85%
MANGA • 2008
status
Completed
start-date
16/10/2008
end-date
18/8/2016
country-origin
JP
popularity
35155
studios
synonyms
BILLY BAT比利蝙蝠
It’s 1949 Los Angeles, and Kevin Yamagata, a Japanese American comic book author, is drawing his bestselling character, Billy Bat: a quick-witted detective who is, unsurprisingly, a cartoon bat. Everything is going well for Kevin until he discovers an unfortunate truth: He may have unintentionally plagiarized his beloved character from a drawing he once saw in Japan. Devastated by the news, Kevin returns to war-torn Japan to find the drawing’s original artist . . . but the character’s origins turn out to be far older and more perplexing than he had ever imagined.
(Source: Kana)
Note: Won the Max und Moritz Prize for "Best international Comic" in 2014.