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A Canadian's Guide to Making Manga


“Years after she abandoned her dream, culturally estranged washout artist Alice Wong is confronted with a part of herself she can no longer ignore: A vision of her young ambitious self, who aspired to be a manga artist. She had hoped for absolution… but the vision, bitter and resentful, craves only revenge.
This is a gritty love letter to both Canada’s distinct and vibrant Anime Art and Asian communities, by and for its rising new generation of artists!”

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© 2025 by Alpha Yu.

Comic illustrator and background artist Alpha Yu is here for all your illustration needs! From work on SFU's Virtual Ambassadors to anthology comics in Fodongo, Reckoning Books & Comics, and more, if there's a story to tell, Alpha Yu's art will tell it. Making a splash in Vancouver's underground comic art scene, his manga, A Canadadian's Guide to Making Manga became a self publishing microsensation. Alpha Yu is represented by Christy Ewers, head agent of The Cat Agency. He also sells art at art markets around Vancouver under the alias Shoba. You can follow him on instagram at shoba.art. If you can read this text, congrats! You are a dedicated codebreaker and have pierced the secret of my hidden message. For your efforts, I will award you with a special surprise. Remember, the password for this page is { multis }. Where does it lead? Well, the only way of ever finding out... is to go down there and see for yourself.

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No part of Alpha Yu's work, including this site, was created with the use of any artificial intelligence.

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