DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES LATEST TITLE IN THEIR VIDEO GAME ICONS LINE, UNDISPUTED STREET FIGHTER: THE ART AND INNOVATION BEHIND THE GAME-CHANGING SERIES
Writer Steve Hendershot and Editor Tim Lapetino Announced as Creative Team
Behind the Art Book 30 Years in the Making!
Behind the Art Book 30 Years in the Making!
Since its inception 30 years ago, the Street Fighter™
video game series from Capcom has thrived based on a lethal combination
of innovation, style and technique. From first-of-their-kind advances
such as selectable characters and secret combo moves, to
imagination-capturing characters such as Ryu, Chun-Li, and Akuma, Street
Fighter has stayed a step ahead of the competition en route to becoming
one of the most enduring and influential franchises in video game
history. Undisputed Street Fighter™ features in-depth interviews and
exclusive, behind-the-scenes looks into the making of the Street Fighter
games, and the iconic art, design, and imagery from across the Street Fighter universe.
Writer Steve Hendershot says, "Street Fighter
is a running, 30-year conversation between the series' creators,
players and fans. Its genius--the magic of shoulder-to-shoulder arcade
play, and the playful, vivid style of its characters-stems from that
back-and-forth. It's been so much fun to hear all sides of that
conversation from Tokyo and Osaka to San Francisco and Chicago, and I'm
excited to tell the story through this book."
Steve
Hendershot is an award-winning Chicago journalist and the editorial
director of MOVA, the Museum of Video Game Art. He is co-host and
producer of the arts-and-culture podcast Cedar Cathedral, and has written for dozens of publications including Crain's Chicago Business, SportsIllustrated.com, NBCSports.com, Chicago Magazine, Booth Newspapers, and Chicago Tribune.
Editor
Tim Lapetino says, "It's been an excellent adventure delving so deeply
into the labyrinth of characters and people who make up Street Fighter
Nation. We've drawn from 30 years of the best art and stories the
franchise has to offer, and Steve has brought his fresh take to all
things Street Fighter with a ton of new interviews and
insights. The book is a love letter to those who grew up with Street
Fighter and also to everyone carrying it into the future."
Tim Lapetino is the Series Editor for Dynamite's exclusive line of books, Video Game Icons. In a series that began with the best-selling Art of Atari, Video Game Icons
will delve deeply into some of the most influential and popular video
game franchises in the world. Lapetino is also the author of Dynamite's Art of Atari (as well as unannounced projects slated for 2018), as well as the Executive Director of MOVA, the Museum of Video Game Art.
Rich
Young, Director of Business Development at Dynamite, says, "I still
remember watching battle after battle at the local arcade on the Street Fighter II
machine, amazed not only by how awesome these characters were, and how
great the game looked and played, but also how good the players were,
and the amount of effort they put into winning each match. Street Fighter
helped pave the way for the fighting game genre… and it's still going
very strong today. I'm thrilled to be working with Capcom on this book,
and the same amazing team that put together Art of Atari!"
Undisputed Street Fighter™
(ISBN 978-1-5241-0466-5) will be available at major bookstore chains,
online booksellers, and independent bookstores courtesy of Diamond Book
Distributors, and to consumers through the comic book specialty market. Undisputed Street Fighter™ will be solicited in Diamond Comic Distributors' July 2017 Previews catalog, the premier source of merchandise for the comic book specialty market, and slated for release in November. Undisputed Street Fighter
will also be available for purchase through digital platforms courtesy
of Comixology, Dynamite Digital, iVerse, and Dark Horse Digital. Fans
and retailers are encouraged to follow Dynamite Entertainment and
Capcom's official social media channel for the latest updates regarding
creative teams and release dates.
About Dynamite Entertainment:Dynamite was founded in 2004 and is home to several best-selling comic book titles and properties, including The Boys, The Shadow, Red Sonja, Warlord of Mars, Bionic Man, A Game of Thrones,
and more. Dynamite owns and controls an extensive library with over
3,000 characters (which includes the Harris Comics and Chaos Comics
properties), such as Vampirella, Pantha, Evil Ernie, Smiley the Psychotic Button, Chastity, and Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt.
In addition to their critically-acclaimed titles and bestselling
comics, Dynamite works with some of the most high-profile creators in
comics and entertainment, including Kevin Smith, Alex Ross, Neil Gaiman,
Andy Diggle, John Cassaday, Garth Ennis, Jae Lee, Marc Guggenheim, Mike
Carey, Jim Krueger, Greg Pak, Brett Matthews, Matt Wagner, Gail Simone,
Steve Niles, James Robinson, and a host of up-and-coming new talent.
Dynamite is consistently ranked in the upper tiers of comic book
publishers and several of their titles - including Alex Ross and Jim
Krueger's Project Superpowers - have debuted in the Top Ten
lists produced by Diamond Comics Distributors. In 2005, Diamond awarded
the company a GEM award for Best New Publisher and another GEM in 2006
for Comics Publisher of the Year (under 5%) and again in 2011. The
company has also been nominated for and won several industry awards,
including the prestigious Harvey and Eisner Awards.
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