Felipe Smith - Peepo Choo Comic

Closed, opens at 11amIndependent shop in University DistrictDirections

Available from Al's Music & Games when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Peepo Choo is a raucous, ultraviolent, and surprisingly sharp satirical manga written and illustrated by Felipe Smith — one of the first manga series ever created by a non-Japanese artist, originally serialized in Japanese by Kodansha and later translated into English by Smith himself for Vertical Inc. The story toggles between two worlds: Milton, a Black otaku teenager from Chicago's South Side who escapes his brutal neighborhood through his obsessive love of the in-universe anime Peepo Choo ,