2008 Convention Schedule
8 March 2008 by Karrit

Check out Sonny's current convention schedule for 2008.

We Shadows Nominated...
1 January 2008 by Karrit

We Shadows was nominated by the American Library Association for it's 2008 Great Graphic Novel Awards! Huzzah! Read about it here

Convention Schedule Update
1 December 2007 by Karrit

Look for Sonny at the New York Anime Festival. You can find out more HERE

They Like It!
24 August 2007 by Karrit

From Sonny: My manga We Shadows has hit bookstores everywhere! And it's getting some great reviews.

From Publisher's Weekly...

After a long stint assisting Wendy Pini on fan-favorite Elfquest, Strait strikes out on his own with a manga-style tale of intrigue in the world of faerie. Cosmo and Vogue are modern faeries, obsessed with glamour and looking to take over from their stodgy predecessors. They've talked Oberon out of his crown, put Titania to sleep and are about to retire Puck. Meanwhile, the unfortunately named Goat trains to be a faerie princess with the help of her friend Mushroom—an actual magic mushroom. Like most volume ones, this is pure setup, but there's no padding. By the end of the volume, the status quo has been shaken harder than a melontini. Strait's art is eye-catching: more anarchic than pure manga; it's influenced as much by Tex Avery as by CLAMP. Strait has good comic timing, a breezy sense of storytelling and a sly sense of humor. He sends up manga conventions, without in-jokes getting in the way of the story. The subject matter and approach will immediately appeal to old-school fantasy fans of the kind who appreciated Robert Asprin and Phil Foglio's Myth Adventures series.

From Newtype Magazine...

Despite featuring a talking mushroom and winged faerie princess, it's clear from the first page that We Shadows definitely is not for little girls. A psychiatrist writes "Possible alcoholic?" in his notebook as a man describes waking up from a blackout wearing faerie wings. There's a flashback of the man on a stool at Dolls Bar, wearing wings and a scowl, and readers are assured that this comic is about the "ae" version of the faeries-in other words, the "bad-assed mythological creature," not the Tinkerbell version.

We Shadows interweaves this patient's escapades with the tale of Goat, an ugly duckling faerie ostracized from the rest of her race. Her only friend is a talking mushroom, leading her to wonder if she's actually insane.

Author Sonny Strait is a modern-day renaissance man. Not only is he the voice of Dragonball Z's Krillin, Fullmetal Alchemist's Maes Hughes and Kodacha's Zenjiro among others, he's been a writer and director on Dragonball, Lupin III, Case Closed, Kodacha and Kiddy Grade and is a writer and artist for DC's Elfquest series.

Strait's comic blends elements from The Ugly Duckling, Arthurian legend and A Midsummer Night's Dream into a modern day, wacked-out tale of it's own with snappy dialogue, dead-on comic timing and trippy visuals.

-Clara Yamasaka

Not bad huh?