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What's Michael?: Fatcat Collection Volume 2
Humorous cat antics for the whole family, as a beloved manga series finally gets the omnibus treatment!
This series stars the wacky, often anthropomorphic Michael with his human and animal friends. Sometimes one-offs, sometimes with a longer continuity, these fun stories will entertain multiple generations of readers. What's Michael? FatCat Collection Volume 2 gathers out-of-print original What's Michael? Volumes 7 to 11! This huge tome features the out-of-print What's Michael? volumes Fat Cat in the City , Show Time , The Ideal Cat , Sleepless Nights , and the shocking Planet of the Cats . Introduction by historian and manga stalwart Zack Davisson ( The Supernatural Cats of Japan )!
This series stars the wacky, often anthropomorphic Michael with his human and animal friends. Sometimes one-offs, sometimes with a longer continuity, these fun stories will entertain multiple generations of readers. What's Michael? FatCat Collection Volume 2 gathers out-of-print original What's Michael? Volumes 7 to 11! This huge tome features the out-of-print What's Michael? volumes Fat Cat in the City , Show Time , The Ideal Cat , Sleepless Nights , and the shocking Planet of the Cats . Introduction by historian and manga stalwart Zack Davisson ( The Supernatural Cats of Japan )!
464 pages, Paperback
Published September 7, 2021
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Makoto Kobayashi
114 books15 followersMakoto Kobayashi (小林 まこと, Kobayashi Makoto) is a Japanese manga artist.
Kobayashi's professional career in comics started in 1978, when he won the 'Shōnen magazine New manga artist' award for his work Grapple Three Brothers.
Over the years Kobayashi has published a number of sport manga, specifically about Judo, starting from his first serialised work Sanshiro of 1, 2 (1981-1984), winner of the 1981 'Kodansha Manga Award'. However, his best known comic book, especially in the West, is What's Michael? (1984-1989), a humour strip about an orange cat, for which Kobayashi won another 'Kodansha Manga Award' in 1986.
Kobayashi's professional career in comics started in 1978, when he won the 'Shōnen magazine New manga artist' award for his work Grapple Three Brothers.
Over the years Kobayashi has published a number of sport manga, specifically about Judo, starting from his first serialised work Sanshiro of 1, 2 (1981-1984), winner of the 1981 'Kodansha Manga Award'. However, his best known comic book, especially in the West, is What's Michael? (1984-1989), a humour strip about an orange cat, for which Kobayashi won another 'Kodansha Manga Award' in 1986.
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March 4, 2022
I'm definitely the age that I appreciate cat manga. Much like the last Fatcat collection, this is 400+ pages of feline fun. The stories are from various points in Michael's timeline, including his dreams. Michael fathers some children, torments some humans, and gets into all sorts of mischief. There's even a Planet of the Apes spoof that goes for multiple installments. The art is cute without being ridiculously so and the humor should hit home for people with cats.
January 9, 2023
these books are pure joy, sad that i think this is the collection of the last few volumes of the series so i’ve reached the end of michael’s adventures :’(
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