In 1997, manga artist Hisao Tamaki took on what sounds like an impossible task: retelling Star Wars: A New Hope as manga. The result wasn't just a straight adaptation, it was a dynamic reimagining that somehow captured the spirit of the movie while filtering it through the lens of late-90s Japanese comics. Fans loved it, critics loved it, and in 1999, the English edition received an Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material.

Now, almost thirty years later, Dark Horse Comics and Lucasfilm are giving Tamaki's version the kind of treatment you'd expect for a beloved cultural artifact. The Art of Star Wars: A New Hope—The Manga just launched on Kickstarter, offering two hefty volumes that reproduce Tamaki's original art boards in meticulous detail. There's also a new English tran

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