(2004–05).ĬLAMP School Paranormal Investigators 3 vols. (1998–2003).Ĭardcaptor Sakura: Master of the Clow 6 vols. Best-Known Works Graphic Novels (with dates of English publication) Japanese manga artists are known to maintain a certain air of mystery around their personal lives, but the members of CLAMP take this to new levels. While their works are wildly popular among young readers and are carried by most major bookstores and libraries with good graphic novel collections, the authors themselves remain little known. Tokyo Babylon " is a prime example of the sheer talent that makes CLAMP such a publishing phenomenon here in the States."Īs with many Japanese manga artists, CLAMP maintains a low public profile. As with many Japanese manga, a number of CLAMP's works have also been made into anime (animation), either as a television series or, as with X, as a feature-length film. rights to CLAMP's works and began to publish a wide variety of their titles, beginning with Magic Knight Rayearth. After 1998 the publisher TOKYOPOP (then known as Mixx) bought the U.S. Hugely popular in their native Japan since the early 1990s, CLAMP's works first came to the attention of American readers in 1996, when the publisher Viz released an English translation of X/1999. The Japanese manga team CLAMP is arguably the most popular creator of manga in the world, and certainly the leading creator of shojo manga, or manga intended for girls (though CLAMP produces all varieties of manga).
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