Kentaro Takekuma

Comics Alliance Gift Guide: What To Buy For Video Game Fans
Comics Alliance Gift Guide: What To Buy For Video Game Fans
Comics Alliance Gift Guide: What To Buy For Video Game Fans
There's always been a seamless crossover between video games and comic books, and odds are if you're a fan of one, you're a fan of the other. Comics have been adapted into video games and vice-versa for almost as long as video games have been "a thing," and as both mediums have evolved, so too has the quality of those crossovers. With the holidays around the corner, we've put together a selection of some of the best video game related comics and art books for the gamer in your life.
Takekuma & Nozawa's 'Super Mario Adventures' Returns To Print
Takekuma & Nozawa's 'Super Mario Adventures' Returns To Print
Takekuma & Nozawa's 'Super Mario Adventures' Returns To Print
The Super Mario Adventures comics from Kentaro Takekuma and Charlie Nozawa that ran in the pages of Nintendo Power from 1992 to 1993 are coming back into print. Next month, Viz is releasing a collection of Super Mario Adventures --- and celebrating by giving you the chance to meet Mario and Luigi in New York!
Playing With Power: Looking Back At 'Nintendo Power' Comics
Playing With Power: Looking Back At 'Nintendo Power' Comics
Playing With Power: Looking Back At 'Nintendo Power' Comics
If you adjust for the fact that I grew up in South Carolina, I wasn't raised in a particularly religious household. I mean, we went to church every now and then, but it wasn't, like, a thing, you know? There was, however, one publication in my household that I read with a faithfulness and devotion that bordered on religious fervor, that I looked to for guidance in times of struggle, and that may have even helped to shape my world view more than any other: Nintendo Power. This week, the first thirteen years of the magazine were uploaded to the freely accessible Internet Archive, and looking back through them, I'm pretty sure they're why I still, to this very day, have a completely irrational hatred of the Sega Genesis. It wasn't just the secret codes or hyped up previews for Daydreamin' Davey that kept me hooked, though. Those were definitely interesting, but there was something else in each issue that kept me wanting to read every single month: The comics.