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I had a weird trajectory into American comics through manga instead of vice versa.
As a kid, I got a free Pokemon manga from a mall event, an anime adaptation by Toshiro Ono. Turn out he is a big comic book fan, and I really liked his art. When I read an interview with him on the Viz website, he mentioned how he liked American comics like Hellboy and enjoyed the artist Walt Simonson. This was before the HB movue and before google image searcg so that was the first time I ever heard of Hellboy and was intrigued and sought him out