Shoulder-a-Coffin Kuro, Vol. 1

Kuro, a little tomboy garbed in pitch-black with a little-tomboy-sized coffin on her back, heads out on a journey to find a certain witch. In the company of her faithful bat friend, Zen, Kuro encounters all manners of people and places which fire the readers' imaginations. Told in 4-koma (four panel) style with beautifully rendered art, Hitsugi Katsugi no Kuro is a manga that manages both "dark and gothic" and "irresistably endearing" on just about every page!

Satoko Kiyuduki is the manga artist of Shoulder-a-Coffin Kuro and GA ~Geijutsuka Art Design Class~, both published in English by Yen Press. She studied design in senior high and currently works on four-panel comics and video game illustration. In fact, her GA series was made into a PSP video game in Japan in 2010.