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Udon Entertainment recently announced a new opportunity for professional, semi-pro and aspiring manga artists and illustrators: The DarkStalkers Tribute Art Contest. 2009 marks the 15th anniversary of this Capcom video game franchise, and to celebrate, Udon is pulling together a full-color art book tribute, and they're looking for artists working in a variety of styles to send in their interpretations of the characters from this horror / fighting game.

Among the onslaught of gift cards and cash this Christmas I received an unexpected surprise. I guess the constant nagging to play Vampire Chronicle with me on my Dreamcast overtime led one of my close friends to gift me the new Darkstalkers Tribute art book. As someone who is not into manga and comics I am actually surprised how much I am enjoying the art book. Which I guess only makes sense since video games have so much to do with visual presentation. The book is thick, having over 300 pages, displaying various artists renditions of characters from the Darkstalkers franchise. Whats really interesting about the book is the creative style of each piece. You have art ranging from cute, and fun

As someone who has loved the Darkstalkers series since I first saw it in arcades at around eleven, it is a real treat to see the series through the eyes of so many amazing artists. But even if your not into Darkstalkers at all, I still highly recommend the book based solely on the art inside it. If you like monsters, sexy temptresses cool character designs and looking at amazing visuals with your eyeballs then check out the Darkstalkers Tribute book, it won't disappoint