March 22: Today on the WORLD OF CAPCOM panel at PAX East in Boston, MA, UDON Entertainment and CAPCOM jointly announced the signing of 5 brand new, hotly-demanded art books featuring CAPCOM properties. These artbooks will be fully translated from the Japanese editions, and will be published by UDON in the second half of 2013.

Please note: All Images are taken from the Japanese editions of the books, and may not be the final book designs.

Asura’s Wrath: Official Complete Works
- 192 pages
- Includes character designs, CG art, storyboards, creator commentary, and exclusive interviews

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Dragon’s Dogma: Official Design Works
- 312 pages
- Includes character designs, armor and weapon designs, monster designs, locations, and creator commentary

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Monster Hunter Illustrations 2
- 400 pages
- Covers all third generation MH titles – Monster Hunter Tri, Monster Hunter Portable 3rd, and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
- Includes monster designs, character designs, weapons, armor, rough sketches and more

- This book will be accompanied by a MUCH demanded reprint of the sold-out Monster Hunter Illustrations!!!

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MM25: Mega Man & Mega Man X Official Complete Works
- 432 pages
- All the classic artwork from the Mega Man and Mega Man X series
- NEW artwork, and rough concepts from Mega Man 9 and 10
- New game developer interviews
- New Tribute art from Hitoshi Ariga, Toru Nakayama, Shigeto Ikehara, and more!

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SF25: The Art of Street Fighter
- 448 pages!!!
- Includes art from all of the classic Street Fighter games
- New art from Street Fighter IV, Street Fighter X Tekken, and more
- New game developer interviews
- New Tribute artwork from Akiman, Shinkiro, Hyung-tae Kim, Daisuke Ishiwatari, and more!

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And there’s even more to come in 2013 from UDON and CAPCOM, including the graphic novels Street Fighter Origins: Akuma this summer, Super Street Fighter 2 this fall/winter, and more Darkstalkers, more Resident Evil, and for the first time from UDON – Devil May Cry!!

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UDON is shaping up to have its busiest and strongest year ever, with nearly 40 planned releases in 2013. We couldn’t do it without the support of our strong relationship with CAPCOM, and fans can get ready for a truly astounding year!

The Long Wait Is Over!

UDON Entertainment’s fan-favorite STREET FIGHTER comics are returning to comic and book stores everywhere tomorrow! We know Street Fighter fans have missed experiencing the adventures and thrilling battles of the World Warriors for the past 18 months, but they’ve returned, in an awesome new oversized hard cover format! Filled with the stories that fans have been demanding for years, and battles and match-ups they could never have expected! Welcome… to SUPER STREET FIGHTER!

SUPER STREET FIGHTER VOLUME 1: NEW GENERATION
Hardcover, 8.25″ x 11.75″, 144 Pages, Full Colour
$34.95, ISBN-13: 978-1-926778-54-9, Diamond: AUG121326

Featuring Stories and art by: Rob Armstrong, Andres S. Blanco, Jeffrey “Chamba” Cruz, Steven Cummings, Marshall Dillon, Omar Dogan, Sean Galloway, Espen Grundetjern, Andrew Hou, Edwin Huang, Joe Ng, Gonzalo Ordonez Arias, Chad Porter, Rob Porter, Chris Sims, Ken Siu-Chong, Arnold Tsang, Eric Vedder, Long Vo, Jim Zub.

Street Fighter returns to comics in an all-new, original, hardcover graphic novel series! Fan favorites like Ryu, Sakura, Ken, and Guile are joined by newcomers Alex, Juri, Dudley, Hakan, and more, for all-out excitement and pulse-pounding battles! Super Street Fighter Volume 1 starts the World Warriors on the path to their greatest challenges yet – don’t dare miss it!

The unquestioned king of fighting games, Street Fighter has dominated gaming for over 25 years, with each new iteration of the series welcoming a brand new group of fans into the vast mythology. Super Street Fighter features the fan-demanded cast and setting of Street Fighter III and the new characters from Street Fighter IV, mixed together for the first time! It also includes classic Street Fighter favorites, making for some of the most over-the-top match-ups in the history of the series!

Super Street Fighter: New Generation also features an extensive sketch and original-art gallery by the entire UDON crew, granting a rare peak behind-the-scenes into the Street Fighter universe!

Want more? 2 great websites are currently running EXCLUSIVE previews of SUPER STREET FIGHTER:

Check out the official prologue to Super Street Fighter by Ken Siu-Chong and Joe Ng at Comics Alliance!

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Check out an amazing battle of the wrestling styles between Hakkan and E. Honda at Kotaku!

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Super Street Fighter: New Generation will go on sale at comic book stores everywhere Wednesday, January 30th, 2013. To find a comic book store near you, check out http://www.comicshoplocator.com/.

Super Street Fighter: New Generation will be available in book stores and from online sellers in the following week to ten days. Here are all of the sellers of UDON comics and art books: http://www.udonentertainment.com/blog/buy-udon-books/

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Captain Commando Volume 2 (Manga)

The manga adventures of the heroes of justice continue!

The Commando Team faces frightening new foes like the evil genius of Dr. T.W. and his murderous Monster, the nefarious ninja Yamato, and the mysterious Lord Blood! Can even Captain Commando’s new “Captain Gauntlet” give him the power to defeat this never-ending array of almighty adversaries?

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We’re thrilled to bring you the conclusion of Captain Commando’s manga adventure, from allllll the way in the 90s. It’s a great property and a really fun manga, and we hope you enjoyed reading it as much as we did publishing it.

We’d like to give a special shout-out to the awesome Jeffrey “Chamba” Cruz, who came through with 2 amazing covers for our editions of the Captain Commando manga.

Manga fans take note, we also published the excellent Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes this year in 2 volumes, and we’ll begin publishing Disgaea 3: School of Demons in May! There’s more manga goodness on the way too. Thanks for your continued support…!

Captain Commando Volume 2 

Price (U.S.): $19.99
ISBN: 1-926778-41-3
ISBN-13: 978-1-926778-41-9

Format: Softcover
Page Count: 256, Black and white
Size: 5.75? wide X 8.25? long

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After a hiatus focused on art book publishing and client projects, UDON is finally back to the comics that helped make them famous. In a couple weeks you’ll be able to pick up a copy of Super Street Fighter Volume 1, a 140+ page over-sized hardcover graphic novel packed with brand new stories and killer artwork.

Comics Alliance has an exclusive preview of the lead story by Ken Siu-Chong and Joe Ng you can check out by clicking the cover below:

Marvel vs. Capcom: Official Complete Works

There are only a few books that have come along in our 10 year career that have made us as excited as Marvel vs. Capcom: Official Complete Works. Taking over five years to put together, this original UDON production has no Japanese counterpart, and was sourced and assembled by us (with the help of the good folks at Capcom and Marvel, of course). Containing rare and never-before-seen artworks from all of Marvel’s and Capcom’s game collaborations, this book was met with thunderous support from the entire gaming community.

As UDON’s founder and Editor-in-Chief Erik Ko stated: “This book means a lot to us. It was back 10 years ago that Joe Quesada at Marvel Comics gave UDON our first freelance job, and kick-started our creative services department. Then just a few years later, we became our own publisher, working closely with Capcom to publish original Street Fighter® comics! Being able to publish a book containing amazing work from both Marvel and Capcom is like a big ‘thank you’ from us to the folks who helped make us what we are today. Thank you Marvel, thank you Capcom!”

Debuting at San Diego Comic-Con with an exclusive hard cover edition featuring wrap-around artwork from Alvin Lee and Genzoman, the book sold out on Thursday–the first full day of the show! Picked as one of the must-have books of Comic-Con, fans ran into the exhibit hall first thing every morning to get one of the few copies we’d held back for daily sales… one guy even hid in the washroom! The few remaining copies of this print run continued to make a splash at PAX PRIME in September, and in UDON’s online store… just in time for the soft cover version to appear!

As a reminder, this book features include:

• An original art book compiled by UDON, with no Japanese counterpart!
• Includes all of the promotional artwork, a complete art archive of all Marvel vs. Capcom character drawings, and rare, never-before-seen artwork, sketches, and bonus material!
• Contains artwork from the Capcom games The Punisher, X-Men: Children of the Atom, Marvel Super Heroes, X-Men VS Street Fighter™, Marvel Super Heroes VS Street Fighter™, Marvel VS Capcom, Marvel VS Capcom 2, Marvel VS Capcom 3, and Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3!
• Includes 17 new illustrations exclusive to this book!

If you’re one of the few game fans that hasn’t picked up a copy yet, check out the huge preview below, and then rush out to pick up Marvel vs. Capcom: Official Complete Works.

Marvel vs. Capcom: Official Complete Works

Hardcover Edition
Page Count: 192, Colour
Size: 8.75” x 12”
Price (U.S.): $100.00
Buy at UDONstore.com

Softcover Edition
ISBN: 1-926778-49-9
ISBN 13: 978-1-926778-49-5
Page Count: 192, Colour
Size: 8.25″ wide X 11.75″ long
Price (U.S.): $44.99

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(Hi UDON fans! This year we released a record 24 new books, including art books, graphic novels, and manga, and we wanted give them one last chance to shine before heading boldly into 2013! So here’s our publishing year in review, book-by-book with previews and more! – The UDON crew!)

Darkstalkers: The Ultimate Edition

The Darkstalkers! Morrigan, Demitri, Felicia, Donovan, Victor, Talbain, and more battle it out for control of the night! Darkstalkers: The Ultimate Edition collects all of UDON’s original comics adapting and inspired by the fan-favourite Darkstalkers video game series in one massive, oversized-volume!

In the world on Darkstalkers, the fate of the world has taken a bleak and ominous turn. Slowly and steadily inhuman and supernatural characters have awoken and are roaming the earth. Vampires, zombies, ghosts, and succubae torment the mortal world—when not engaging in vicious struggles for power amongst themselves! Created by CAPCOM, Darkstalkers is dark reflection of the Street Fighter video games, a surreal and supernatural fighting game with fan-favourite characters that have gone on to star in other CAPCOM games, including the smash-hit Marvel vs. Capcom 3!

Darkstalkers was adapted comics by UDON from 2005 to 2009, and these stories feature some of the company’s greatest talents including writer Ken Siu-Chong, and artists Alvin Lee, Kevin Lau, Eric Vedder, Joe Vriens, and many more! These stories remain amongst UDON’s most popular works, and Darkstalkers fans among the most passionate!

The latest installment in UDON’s fantastic Ultimate Edition line, Darkstalkers: The Ultimate Edition collects the entirety of UDON’s Darkstalkers and Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors comic series in a 8.25” x 11.75” format. In addition, this book contains every Darkstalkers short-story from across UDON’s publishing history, and every Darkstalkers variant cover!

In addition to the regular softcover edition, a special limited edition hardcover was created, available direct from UDON at conventions or online at the UdonStore.com! This deluxe binding features two all-new pieces of wrap-around artwork by fan favorites Alvin Lee and Omar Dogan. These exclusive pieces were created specifically for the limited edition hardcover and can’t be found anywhere else!

(Darkstalkers HC cover art by Alvin Lee)

Darkstalkers: The Ultimate Edition

ISBN: 1-926778-34-0
ISBN-13: 978-1-926778-34-1
Diamond: AUG111227

Page Count: 264, Color
Size: 8.25″ wide X 11.75″ long

Softcover Price (U.S.): $49.99
Hardcover Price (U.S.): $79.99

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Check out a a 4 page preview:

After a brief hiatus, STREETFIGHTERCOMICS.COM is back and updating daily with the greatest of UDON’s Street Fighter Comic Series!

Issue #6 has just begun, featuring the first fateful battle between Akuma and Ryu, with even more surprises in store to wrap up our first story arc! As a special bonus, the strip will be updating every day in December… including weekends! Don’t forget to visit every day to see all of the action.

If you want to own copies of UDON’s Street Fighter comics for your very own, head to http://www.udonentertainment.com/blog/buy-udon-books/.

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Are you reading UDON’s amazing Street Fighter comics free, every day at http://streetfightercomics.com/? If so, then you would have seen this amazing reunion between legendary Alpha and SFII characters…

Plus! Recent tussles between Ryu, Ken, and Sagat, and Sakura and Dan(!)!

Don’t miss any of the action! Make sure to visit StreetFighterComics.com every day for classic Street Fighter from UDON!

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MARVEL VS. CAPCOM®: OFFICIAL COMPLETE WORKS

 Two Titanic Universes Collide In This Spectacular New Artbook!

SOFT COVER EDITION NOW AVAILABLE

TORONTO, CANADA: An amazing collection nearly 20 years in the making, UDON Entertainment proudly announces that Marvel vs. Capcom: Official Complete Works is now available! This is a brand-new art book collecting all of the official artwork, sketches, and bonus material from all of Marvel and Capcom’s video game collaborations—from 1993’s The Punisher arcade game right up to 2012’s smash-hit Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 for the PLAYSTATION 3, PSP, and X-BOX 360 platforms!

Compiled by UDON with the help of Capcom and Marvel, this is the first time this material has ever been collected in one place — on either side of the Pacific! Weighing in at nearly 200 pages, Marvel vs. Capcom: Official Complete Works has been a labour of love for the UDON production team. Working closely with Capcom creative head Shoei Okano, UDON has dug deep through CAPCOM’s archives to find extremely rare high-resolution art and materials to put together for this project — no easy task considering no Marvel vs. Capcomart book was ever printed in Japan!

Includes stunning artworks by Akiman, Bengus, Shinkiro, Joe Madureira, Adi Granov, and more! Complementing the classic pieces are an all-new gallery of stunning Marvel vs. Capcom illustrations by comics superstars including Joe Ng, Long Vo, Chamba, Adam Warren, and Takeshi Miyazawa!

“This book means a lot to UDON,” says Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Erik Ko. “It was back 10 years ago that Joe Quesada at Marvel Comics gave UDON our first freelance job, and kick-started our creative services department. Then just a few years later, we became our own publisher, working closely with Capcom to publish original Street Fighter® comics! Being able to publish a book containing amazing work from both Marvel and Capcom is like a big ‘thank you’ from us to the folks who helped make us what we are today. Thank you Marvel, thank you Capcom!”

Marvel vs. Capcom: Official Complete Works is now available in selected retail outlets! 

Comic Book Shops: Advance copies arrived in comic book specialty stores last week, thanks to an emergency solicitation this summer! Immediate reorders are available under the code MAY128056. Orders placed in the September Previews (due this Thursday!) should ship in early-to-mid October.

Amazon.com: MVC:OCW is now in-stock and shipping from Amazon.com!

Other Online retail: MVC:OCW is also in-stock from Barnes & Noble, Book Depository, Chapters/Indigo, and Books-A-Million!

THE UDON STORE: The softcover edition, and a very few copies of the limited edition hard cover, are currently available at Udonstore.com.

Key Features:
- This is an original art book compiled by UDON, with no Japanese counterpart!
- Includes all of the promotional artwork, a complete art archive of all Marvel vs. Capcom character drawings, and rare, never-before-seen artwork, sketches, and bonus material!
- Contains artwork from the Capcom games The Punisher, X-Men: Children of the Atom, Marvel Super Heroes, X-Men VS Street Fighter™, Marvel Super Heroes VS Street Fighter™, Marvel VS Capcom, Marvel VS Capcom 2, Marvel VS Capcom 3, and Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3!
- Includes 17 new illustrations exclusive to this book!

This is the book that fighting game fans have dreamed of, since The Punisher and Nick Fury first picked up their guns, since Captain America raised his shield against Ryu`s hadoken! No fan of Marvel Comics, no fan of Capcom’s universe, no fan of videogames will want to be without Marvel vs. Capcom: Official Complete Works!

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Marvel vs. Capcom: Official Complete Works

Softcover Edition

ISBN: 1-926778-49-9
ISBN 13: 978-1-926778-49-5
Diamond: MAY128056
Format: Softcover
Page Count: 192, Colour
Size: 8.25″ wide X 11.75″ long
Price (U.S.): $44.99

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UDON’s amazing artbook STREET FIGHTER: TRIBUTE has spawned an entire branded store on the massive Zazzle website–and it’s open now!

It’s a pretty neat idea–choose from 200 of your favourite images from STREET FIGHTER: TRIBUTE, then pick what sort of merchandise you’d like to have that image on. Maybe you want that awesome Omar, Chamba, and Joe Ng drawing to the right on a mouse pad, or a macbook sleeve? You can do it! Then customize how it looks and buy it.

Sound neat? If so, head over to the special Street Fighter Tribute store at http://www.zazzle.com/streetfightertribute and see all 200 of the designs and 40+ different kinds of merchandise, and mix-and-match your own STREET FIGHTER: TRIBUTE goodies.

- Chris, UDON

P.S.: A very few copies of Street Fighter: Tribute are still available in softcover, just in case you never picked this awesome book up!