History: Cyberpunk Graphic Novels

__''Cyberpunk''__ as a genre has spread to most modern media and has brought forth quite a few kick assgraphic novels and realted animated movies and shows. ''Akira'' and ''Ghost in the Shell'' stand as great examples of classical japanese animation and are known and loved by enthusiasts in animation, science fiction and cyberpunk.

A 48 pages long comic bok adaption of William Gibsons cyberpunk masterpiece ''Neuromancer'' was published by Epic Comics in 1989. Written and Drawn by Tom de Haven and Bruce Jensen the book only covered the first two chapters of the book and was discontinued.

__Cyberpunk comics:__

''Akira''
Katsuhiro Otomo's cyberpunk epic had its first release in 1982.It was concluded in 1990, six thick volumes long collecting over 2000 pages.
An animated film adaption was released in 1988. It is distinctly shorter than the drawn version and covers a shorter time span with fewer characters. It's still a masterpiece in animation and a cyberpunk must-see!

''Battle Angel Alita (GUNNM, Gun Dream)''
Created by Yukito Kishiro in 1991, Battle Angel Alita tells the story of a cyborg called Alita. Alita is found as a head and torso by cyborg doctor Ido in a scrapyard under the floating city Tiphares. As Alita is fited with a new body she sets off to find out about her past with her expertice in deadlyu cyborg martial arts as her onyl clue to who and what she used to be.
As the story progresses it goes from being a quite action based comic to discussing humanity, social segregation and information control.


''Battle Angel Alita'': Last order
Overlaps the ending of the original series which creator Yukito Kishiro thought was rushed and poorly executed.

''Blame''
Written and drawn by Tsutomu Nihei from 1998 to 2003. The finished series spans over ten manga volumes of dark, dark sci fi, maybe in the future, mayber on earth.
The series mostly follows the main character Killy's venture through the "megastructure" as he searches for humans posessing something called net terminal genes.
The series has very little dialogue and relies heavily on the incredible art style which shows a marvelous blend of cold steel, hard concrete and organic tissue.

''Eden: It's an endless world''
Cyberpunk manga by Hiroki Endo set in the near future after a catastrofic epidemic killing off 15 percent of the worlds population and has left many more disigured, disabled and reliant on cybernetic implants to survive. Cybernetics have advanced a lot being used not only for life support but in weaponry and surveilance tech to a level where whole human bodies are replaced by mechanical ones.
The series focuses on the main character Elija Ballard who gets involved with an organisation called Propater, going from a quite naive kid to a hardened warrior as he matures on the run and the battlefield.
The series features a lot of cyberpunk themes like cyborgs, droids, AI, mgacorporations and hacking.

''Ghost in the Shell''

''Transmetropolitan''