This year’s second issue of Shogakukan’s Big Comic Original magazine revealed on Tuesday that Minetarō Mochizuki is launching a new essay manga titled No Comic, No Life in the magazine’s next issue on January 20.
The magazine also revealed Mochizuki is putting his and Naoto Yamakawa’s Frederick manga on hiatus due to the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) situation making research difficult to conduct.
Mochizuki’s manga adaptation of Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs (Inugashima) film serialized in Kodansha’s Morning magazine from May to July 2018.
Mochizuki and Yamakawa launched the Frederick manga in January 2020.