This is the awesome deviantART image that helped launch Nina Matsumoto (aka SpaceCoyote) into e-superstardom. It’s more than just an excellent homage to one of the most-loved cartoons of all time. This image led to an offer from Bongo Comics (the home of The Simpsons!) and another offer to do character designs for Futurama figures!

We at Del Rey Manga are ecstatic to welcome Nina into the Del Rey Manga family–her first OEL manga, YOKAIDEN, will be published by Del Rey in Summer 2008! You can find her deviantART page here: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/46036660/

And for those of you into the webcomics scene, Nina is also the talented creator of the webcomic Saturnalia.