CHIHO SAITO TO COVER SPELLBOUND #1
Revolutionary Girl Utena Creator Comes to Fanboy

New York, NY - Fanboy Entertainment is pleased to announce that Revolutionary Girl Utena creator Chiho Saito will be providing a variant cover for SPELLBOUND: The Magic of Love #1!

"What can I say?! I am thrilled to announce this one!" remarked Fanboyıs C.B. Cebulski. "Miss Saito is one of Japan's premier shojo manga artists, whose delicate style and detailed artwork is loved around the world. I never expected I'd be privileged enough to have her name associated with ours! Hopefully this will be but the first of many projects she will be doing with Fanboy! (Hint, Hint)"

Miss Saito will be providing the variant cover to Tomoko Taniguchi's SPELLBOUND: The Magic of Love #1. SPELLBOUND is an original manga created by Miss Taniguchi for her foreign fans that will first be published in the United States. The story centers around Ami, a hip, street smart Japanese teenager who also happens to be a practicing witch. For Ami, magic is more for causing trouble and having fun than anything else... except love. However, try as she might, she can't get any love spells to work on the object of her affection, Hiro. And when Hiro's is snatched away by the foreign fashion designer Nicole, it's up to Ami to save him from her evil machinations.

"Two top-notch, respected shojo manga artists together on one book! Tomoko herself couldn't be happier. Although not a big anime fan, Tomoko fell in love with that Saito-sensei's Revolutionary Girl Utena. They met for the first time in Chicago at Anime Central last month and Tomoko was starstruck! But they immediately hit it off and here you see the result of a newfound friendship!" Cebulski commented. "As far as I know, this may be the first time a shojo manga artist has ever done a variant cover for another shojo manga artist. Unfortunately, none of Saito-sensei's manga have been published in English yet so we're happy to be publishing a new piece of her artwork for all her hungry fans here to see. Tomoko Taniguchi + Chiho Saito = Happy Manga Fans!"

SPELLBOUND: The Magic of Love #1 ships in August for $2.95. It is currently preordering in the new issue of Diamond Previews. The variant cover will be shipped in a 50/50 ratio. To find a comic store near you, call 1-888-COMIC BOOK.

Be sure to check out http://www.fanboyinc.com for more information and artwork on SPELLBOUND: The Magic of Love #1 as well as lots of other anime and manga news.

Thanks go out to C.B. Cebulski, Fanboy Entertainment's president, for passing along this info.