Star Wars Manga: A New Hope
Hisao Tamaki redraws the 1977 film as shonen manga — same screenplay, entirely different visual grammar — in four fat black-and-white volumes.
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All comicsStar Wars Manga: Return of the Jedi
Shin-ichi Hiromoto’s adaptation of the 1983 film, and the most stylised of the four Dark Horse manga — closer to caricature than to likeness.
Star Wars Manga: The Empire Strikes Back
Toshiki Kudo’s manga adaptation of the 1980 film, adapted from the Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan screenplay.
Star Wars Manga: The Phantom Menace
Kia Asamiya — Silent Möbius, Batman: Child of Dreams — adapts the 1999 film in two volumes, and is the only one of the four manga artists to draw…
Star Wars: Jango Fett
A sixty-four-page digest-format Jango Fett caper, drawn in a deliberately un-Star-Wars cartoon line, about an artefact two bounty hunters both want.
Star Wars: Zam Wesell
The other half of the same caper, from the shapeshifter’s side: Zam Wesell wants to sell the artefact, and Jango Fett wants it destroyed.
Star Wars Manga
Two anthology volumes, Black and Silver, in which Japanese cartoonists were handed the setting and explicitly told not to worry about continuity.
Star Wars Lost Stars
Yusaku Komiyama’s manga of Claudia Gray’s novel: two friends from the same planet who join the Imperial academy together and end up on opposite…
Star Wars Leia, Princess of Alderaan
Haruichi adapts Claudia Gray’s novel about a sixteen-year-old Leia discovering what her adoptive parents have been doing with the family name.
Star Wars Rebels
Akira Aoki’s manga adaptation of the first season of Star Wars Rebels, which began life as a Japanese webcomic published on LINE.
The Legends of Luke Skywalker—The Manga
Four cartoonists adapt four of the tall tales from Ken Liu’s novel, in which people who may never have met Luke Skywalker explain exactly what he is…
Star Wars: The High Republic: The Edge of Balance
The manga arm of The High Republic, following a Jedi on a frontier settlement world where the Nihil raids have already started.
Star Wars: The Mandalorian: The Manga
Yusuke Osawa’s chapter-for-chapter manga adaptation of the first season of The Mandalorian, serialised in Square Enix’s Big Gangan and collected by…
Star Wars: Visions
Manga adaptations of four episodes of the Star Wars: Visions animated anthology, each by a different cartoonist.
Star Wars: Thrawn: The Manga
A manga adaptation of Timothy Zahn’s 2017 novel Thrawn, adapted by Man Tsang.
