Goseki Kojima Archives

The Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima material (Lone Wolf & Cub, Path Of The Assassin, Samurai Executioner) is obviously the headliner Any introduction I could give would pale in comparison to the fruits of their collaboration Famously, Lone Wolf & Cub is an Eisner and Harvey award-winning work that may be the premiere manga about[...]

Kazuo Koike, the creator of Lone Wolf and Cub (along with artist Goseki Kojima) and one of the most prolific creators of manga, has died His official Twitter account and various news outlets reported that Koike, 82, was hospitalized for pneumonia and passed away on Wednesday. Koike is the creator of Lone Wolf and Cub and[...]

What we do know is that in addition to producing along with Marissa McMahon (wife of WWE's Shane McMahon), Lin is also expected to direct. Originally created by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima as a manga series, Lone Wolf and Cub tells the story of a Shogun's executioner who sets out on a quest for revenge with[...]

The Criterion Collection have produced 2K restorations of the original 6 live action films to be released on March 27th 2017 in the UK (amazon link), which seem to have been previously released in the states. Here's Paul Pope's art for the box set: The films, based on (writer) Kazuo Koike and (artist) Goseki Kojima's manga of the same name about Ogami[...]

In the afterword to volume one, Koike talks about mourning the passing of original series artist Goseki Kojima and seeking his widow's blessing before embarking on a search for a new artist Hideki Mori had finished the 11-volume Bokko, an award-winning (and untranslated) series about a strategist saving cities from invading armies in ancient China,[...]