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PARADE BY HIROMI KAWAKAMI
2024, SVA Junior Adaptation Project

6 pages



Tsukiko is a perfectly normal, average middle schooler.
She’s more than happy to keep her head down and follow along with
whatever her classmates are doing.

Until one day, she wakes up to two red creatures with
long noses and wings, Tengu, following her. At school, she finds
other creatures from Japanese folklore interacting with her peers.

Where are they from? Why are they here?

And what do they have to do with her classmate, Yuko?
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The Cerberus Project Cover Page
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THE CERBERUS PROJECT

2025, SVA Senior Project

16 Pages



In a world with supernatural abilities,
The Hidden Order’s status as a covert non-ability user operation comes
into question with the organization that documents ability users in the country.

A team of three teenage special operatives are
ordered to take down  this organization before the entire
Hidden Order
network is discovered.




 
SPELLEATER

2024, SVA Mini-Comics Project

16 Pages



Local Adventurers, Ralphie and Tri-a, stumble upon a magical
bookshop in seach of information for their current quest. Their research is
placed on the backburner when all the magic suddenly disappears.
Spelleater Title Page
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NIGHT ON THE GALACTIC RAILROAD BY KENJI MIYAZAWA

2025, SVA Spring Adaptation Project

4 Pages



Giovanni and Campanella embark on a mysterious,
magical trainride throughout the galaxy after the summer star festival, learning about friendship, life, and what it means to be truly happy along the way.



 
COYOTE AT THE EDGE
OF THE STREET

2024, Proof of Concept

3 Pages



Beau has long since gotten used to the mundanity
of her dead-end, small town. Including the coyote that’s always just outside
of her family property and her best friend, August, showing up
every summer morning looking for an adventure.

Just as Beau is beginning to realize
she might like August more than a friend, something that would certainly
be frowned upon by just about everyone she knows, the coyote
turns up dead on the main road into town.

Even stranger, August is nowhere to be found.
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SELF-ACTUALIZATION

2024, SVA Ink Magazine Submission

2 Pages



After reading Zoe Thorogood’s graphic novel,
It’s Loney at the Centre of the Earth, Mel has a realization
about what it means to create a autobiographical comic.


© Mel Turner 2025