Dogby Walks Alone

Dogby Walks Alone

Cover of Dogby Walks Alone vol. 1 (2006).
Art by Wes Abbott.
Genre Comedy, Hardboiled
Author Wes Abbott
Publisher Tokyopop (U.S.)
Original run 2006 – Present
Volumes 3

Dogby Walks Alone is the name of an OEL manga by Wes Abbott, and the name of Abbott's winning entry in the second Rising Stars of Manga. The Rising Stars of Manga entry was a 15-page prequel to the manga. Although the manga is primarily a comedy, it includes several scenes of serious, gripping drama, and the first volume's plot and theme are solidly based in noir fiction.

For the sake of clarity and brevity, this article refers to the original 15-page Rising Stars of Manga entry as "the short story" and the full-tankōbon graphic novels as "the books". Like almost all "original English-language manga", Dogby Walks Alone is "straight to tankōbon", and never had its individual chapters serialized in a magazine.

Dogby, the protagonist of both stories, is an amusement park mascot who never speaks, and never removes the head from his costume (at least not anywhere the "camera" can see). The actual narrative and dialogue of the short story and the first book come primarily through "Snack Girl", Dogby's "Watson" who also has a huge crush on him.

The second book in the series is subtitled "Dogby Walks Tall".

Lead characters

None of the characters in Dogby Walks Alone have real names, with the exception of Roy Happy, the owner of "HappyPlace", the amusement park where the stories take place (a direct homage to Disneyland and Roy Disney). In the short story, the shift manager is named Berger, but when the same character reappears in the book he is only referred to as "Former Shift Manager (Retired)".

Characters from the short story

Characters from the first book

The first book features all of the preceding characters, and adds several more.

Plot

The original 15-page story for Rising Stars of Manga 2 features Dogby and Snack Girl clearing Birdie of the theft of 20 pounds of hot dogs.

The two full volumes of the manga are each complete stories. In the first book, Dogby solves a murder, while the rest of the park is on the brink of civil war over the mysterious theft of a week's ticket sales. In the second book, Dogby helps defend an Alaskan town from a gang of Russian Imperialists.

Release

Volume list

No.North American release dateNorth American ISBN
01 June 13, 2006[1]ISBN 978-1-59816-582-1
02 January 13, 2008[1]ISBN 978-1-59816-583-8

References

  1. 1 2 "Manga+Comics: Book Catalog". Tokyopop. Retrieved 6 January 2010.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 5/6/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.