SF20 Art Of Street Fighter Thread. Greatest Street Fighter art book EVER!

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Picked it up yesterday and this book is amazing! :wow:

Not only does it have tons more artwork than SF Eternal Challenge, there’s interviews with lots of the SF artists. You’ll see several drawings from Akiman, CRMK (AKA Bengus, first interview of his I’ve ever read so I will now scream like an insane fanboy AAAAAAAAAH… :party:), Kinu Nishimura (my favorite BTW, Akiman’s a close second), Daigo Ikeno and Shinkiro! All of their drawings are grouped together (Akiman has a section, CRMK has a section, etc.) so now the question of “Who drew what?” is pretty much thrown out the window FOREVER! On top of the interviews the artists even talk about a lot of individual SF drawings they did! :lovin: The Shinkiro section is very cool since it even has his Tatsunoko vs. Capcom drawings! :pray:

It doesn’t only extend to Capcom artists. They speak to Nona about his work on SVC Chaos and the artist behind Namco x Capcom also talks about drawing SF characters in that game! And you can see their SF drawings in the book of course! :clapdos:

I could go on and on but this is one of those books that you just have to experience for yourself. Why are you still reading this? GO GET IT. :tup:

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It’s already out? I thought it was hitting stores next month, whatever. I’ll get my hands on it some time this weekend, it looks sick.

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My amazon preorder gives me an October Release date?

Where did you get it Sano heh!

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I got pre-order for SF, Megaman, and Darkstalkers artbooks…glad I’m not backing out.

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Comic book stores got it yesterday. Picked it up at Midtown Comics in NYC.

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Yup, greatest SF art book ever. I’ve known for at least a week now. :stuck_out_tongue:

I love the artist comments. A lot of Kinu’s comments were pretty funny. There’s one old Kinu picture from I think the Capcom newsletter with Saotome Jin and some female characters, and the comment was “I love the way Jin is looking at you in this (lol).” On closer inspection, Jin has this creepy, intensely seductive glare that I never really noticed before. Now I can’t look at the pic without seeing that first :lol:

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No regrets here. A great buy all around. Great art, commentary, and Q&A at the end of every artist chapter.

If the Mega Man books are anything like this ill have to pick those up too.

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They’re better; SF Artworks Supreme could’ve been better despite it being already great.

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So these are available in most comic book stores? How much was it? Is this hardbook or soft?

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Mine suddenly shipped, I paid $23 since I pre ordered it, but it lists for 26 now. As far as I know, theres only Paperback?

Can anyone chime in if theres a hardcover?

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These were shipped to comic shops but I would call to see if your local comic shop ordered one for the store. It’s been my experience that when it comes to these artbooks and whatnot most comic stores don’t actually order them, and if they do, they rarely get in many copies. In comic stores this has an MSRP of $39.99. That’s expensive to me. However it’s in stock at Amazon for $26.99. Since it’s over $25 you can get free shipping and depending on your state there will be no tax as well. So online is a better deal, but, if you like your comic store and have the money to spare, you can try to get it from your local comic shop. I’m sure they need all the help they can get. I’m too poor so it’s Amazon for me. Also currently there is only a softcover I believe. I wouldn’t be surprised if they released some limited edition hardcover sometime down the road for a convention or something though. They’ll probably jack the price up to 80 or 90 bucks too though.

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I’m going to have to pick that up when ever I have a chance to go to my comic book store.What is the guys name that drew the Street Fighter characters for Namco Vs.Capcom?He’s the same one that drew the Soul Calibur & Tekken characters.

BTW if possible pot some Akiman & Kinu scans

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LOL don’t ask for scans and please no one toss them up. See the sticky rules thread of this forum. :sweat: Besides all that, it’s bound pretty tightly and scans will prolly jack your book up pretty good. :blush:

The NXC artist’s name is Takuji Kawano. :smile:

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I still don’t know if this is allowed, but a while ago in the Warriors Fate SF Story thread, one guy basically showed all the pages of the Japanese version of the book via youtube. It was great if you just wanted to get a sense of how much artwork there was, what was featured etc. He flips through the pages fairly quickly and the quality isn’t stellar, but it gives you a good “sneak peak” so to say, of what’s in the book.

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It’s a gray area for certain but I think that much is okay. :wonder:

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I checked my local comic shop & they didn’t have any. Didn’t even know what i was talking about, they did have a Street Fighter Tribute art work from awhile back but they wanted MSRP for it 39.99. I ended up ordering one up in Amazon…Thanks

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The hardcover was an SDCC limited edition. It was about 80 bucks or so but they’re selling on Ebay for much more than that.

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I can’t believe there’s so many new images that were left out of Eternal Challenge. I expected Tatsunoko and IV stuff, but I’m blown away with how good this book, and how much un-seen art is in here.

Udon’s best work, putting this together.

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Yea mine came in, top notch, highly recommended.

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I have no additional praise to add since all has already been said, but I had to post that the pic with Chun’s Dad picking her up as a toddler was too adorable.:lovin: