This article has been updated since its publication.
Per an ICv2 interview with Yen Press’s editor-in-chief JuYoun Lee, Yen Press imprint JY Books will be publishing a new “Big Hero 6: The Series” comic book. The first volume of the series, created by newcomer Hong Gyun An, will continue the adventures of Disney’s superhero team — consisting of Hiro Hamada, Baymax, GoGo Tomago, Honey Lemon, Wasabi and Fred — in August.
Hong Gyun An is a recent graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City, whose background is in animation. JuYoun Lee told ICv2, “Hong is quite the talent with amazing skill at facial expressions and action scenes, and we can’t wait to have the book out in stores.”
This is the latest twist of fate for the characters of Big Hero 6, who began life as an obscure Japanese Marvel Comics team from creators Steve T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau in 1998, before starring in the Academy Award-winning film from 2014. A comic book for the 2017 TV spin-off was planned by IDW Publishing, but that was heavily delayed after conflicts between editorial, and writer Hannah Blumenreich: only three issues, rewritten by Joe Caramagna with art by Nicoletta Baldari, were released from November 2019 to October 2020, and only digitally in the case of the latter two issues.
Yen Press themselves previously published a two-part manga adaptation of the movie by Japanese artist Haruki Ueno in 2017. The 192-page “Big Hero 6: The Series” Vol. 1 will be released in comic book stores on August 4, and in bookstores on August 17.