LumicPress Launches Its First-Ever Children’s Manga-Style Magazine
Are you looking for manga books for kids that combine engaging stories, soulful illustrations, and opportunities for creativity?
The new children’s manga-style magazine, “LumicPress Magazine, Issue #1” combines comics, stories, crafts, and activities for creative young readers.
A New Kind of Manga-Style Book for Kids
LumicPress Magazine, Issue #1 brings together manga-style comic artists, writers, and illustrators for a diverse collection of stories and creative activities designed to feel both varied and cohesive. The 70-page debut issue features four short comics, a poem comic, illustrated short stories, paper dolls, craft activities, and an interview with a professional creative studio. The stories span a wide range of genres and experiences; from a heartfelt tale about a cat and dog learning to become friends, to a comedic comic about a demon navigating life as a teenage girl, to a teenager whose confession to her crush is repeatedly interrupted by monsters and alien invasions. Together, these stories offer young readers a chance to discover different characters, worlds, art styles, and ways of telling a story, all within a single issue.
Reminiscent of magazines like Cricket, Highlights, and Kazoo, it also takes inspiration from Japanese manga magazines such as Weekly Shonen Jump and CoroCoro Comic and blends them together to create something entirely different. LumicPress Magazine Issue #1 not only gives young readers stories to consume, it also invites them into a world of comics, art, poetry, crafts, and creative experimentation.
Contributors in This Issue
This first issue includes the work of 10 different contributors:
“Reckless”, a comic created by Moon (Moonlitattic), “The Dragon Has Been Howling” a comic created by Naomi Samarasekera, “Zoey the Independent Cat” A poem written by Trish Broome and illustrated by Sevita Lochan, “The Boy Who Borrowed Small Things” A story written by Pravy Jha, illustrated by Kyorin, “You’re Soooo Unlucky, Miss Karrin!” a comic created by Simplyteone, “Emi and the Great Penguin Games” a story written and illustrated by Sophie Plants (emidrawspenguins), “POSSESSION PARANOIA: LOATHSOME LOCKER” a comic created by Maribelle Jilani (mjart385), “Elodie’s Fantastic Wardrobe” a paperdoll illustrated by Moon (Moonlitattic), “Edgar’s Day to Day Attire” a paperdoll illustrated by Skelterton, and a feature on the Furry Puppet Studio, as well as an interview with the founder of the studio, Zach Buchman.
Sevita Lochan, the founder and editor-in-chief of LumicPress, LLC, hopes that after the experience of reading LumicPress Magazine, Issue #1, young readers consider being creators themselves, whether it be art, comics, stories, or even puppetry. She hopes that the LumicPress Magazine will continue to become a series that encourages lifelong creativity and imagination.
Where to Get Your Copy
For interviews, physical copies for review, extracts, photos, please contact Sevita Lochan: