Kitty Sweet Tooth’s Abby Denson & Utomaru on My Tokyo Summer OGN

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My Tokyo Summer by Abby Denson and Utomar is a YA graphic memoir through which Abby embarks on a life-changing journey.

My Tokyo Summer by Abby Denson of Cool Japan Guide and Utomaru, who beforehand collaborated together with her on Kitty Sweet Tooth, is a YA graphic memoir through which Abby, an artwork pupil based mostly in New York City, embarks on a life-changing journey when she enrolls in a summer time session in Tokyo and collaborates on a comic book together with her Japanese pen pal, and so they got down to exhibit collectively at Japan’s largest comics present.

Cassandra Pelham Fulton at Scholastic/Graphix has acquired My Tokyo Summer for publication within the spring of 2026. Anny Denson and Utomaru’s agent Seth Fishman on the Gernert Company did the deal for world rights.

Abby Denson is the writer of Uniquely Japan, the Kitty Sweet Tooth collection (with artist Utomaru), Cool Tokyo Guide, Cool Japan Guide, Dolltopia, and Tough Love: High School Confidential, which was initially serialized in XY Magazine. She has scripted comics for Amazing Spider-Man Family, Powerpuff Girls Comics, Simpsons Comics, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats, Disney Adventures, and plenty of others. She has gained the International Manga Award, Moonbeam Children’s Book Award, IPPY Award, and Lulu of the Year. She has taught and lectured at varied venues together with the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, Eugene Lang College at The New School, and Sophia University in Tokyo. She has participated as U.S. Arts Envoy to Colombia.

Utomaru is a Tokyo-based illustrator, artwork director, and graphic designer whose credit embrace character design on Muteking the Dancing Hero, a reboot of a basic anime collection, and illustrating the Kitty Sweet Tooth graphic novel collection. She studied graphic design at Tama Art University and her foremost influences are cartoons by Fleischer Studios and Tex Avery, film posters from the Sixties to the Eighties, in addition to American and Japanese comics and animation.

Scholastic Corporation is an American multinational publishing, training, and media firm that publishes and distributes comics, books, and academic supplies for colleges, mother and father, and youngsters. Its books are distributed by way of retail and on-line gross sales and thru colleges through studying golf equipment and festivals, and its comedian e book line Scholastic Graphix has helped to make Scholastic the most important comedian e book writer in North America.

Head of the Los Angeles workplace, Seth Fisherman is a Vice President and agent at The Gernert Company, which he joined in 2010 after starting his profession as an agent at Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. Born in Midland, Texas, he graduated from Princeton University and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.

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