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SDCC 2022: NBA Star De’Aaron Fox Heads To SDCC with eigoMANGA

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Comic book publisher, eigoMANGA has teamed up with Sacramento Kings point guard De’Aaron Fox to showcase his basketball comic book Swipa The Fox at 2022 Comic-Con International: San Diego, the nation’s largest comics convention.

De’Aaron Fox, drafted 5th overall in the 2017 NBA draft by the Sacramento Kings quickly rose to become the Kings’ franchise player and team leader. Fox will make a special in-person appearance in eigoMANGA’s booth (#5532) at Comic-Con International: San Diego. De’Aaron Fox will appear in eigoMANGA’s booth on Saturday, July 23 from 3:30-4:30pm to meet fans and sign autographs.

De’Aaron Fox will also take part a panel for Comic-Con International: San Diego to discuss his fandom for anime, manga, and how it intertwines with his basketball career. Fox will be joined by his “Swipa The Fox” comic book creative team; together, they will discuss the fundamentals of writing comic books centered around basketball.

The Swipa The Fox comic book is about De’Aaron Fox accidentally venturing into a basketball video game while his video game counterpart causes havoc in the real world. Fox has to harness all of his world-class basketball skills to play his way out of the digital game and return to reality.

The Comic-Con International panel with De’Aaron Fox is called “NBA Players Are Anime Fans Too” and is scheduled on Saturday, July 23 at 5:15 pm.

NBA Star De’Aaron Fox and eigoMANGA Team Up To for Swipa the Fox

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eigoMANGA has announced that the company will publish a manga-influenced comic book with NBA point guard for the Sacramento Kings, De’Aaron Fox.

Together, eigoMANGA, De’Aaron Fox, and his agency Family First Sports Firm will create and publish the comic book Swipa The Fox. The comic is written by Natashia McGough Clarke (EdD) and Nnamdi Ikeakor. The artwork is produced by Harrier Studio.

The story starts off with De’Aaron partnering with a video game company to develop his first basketball video game. He wears an experimental motion capture suit and a VR head-set to play-test the game. While playing, an accident causes him to transport into the game. He has to harness all of his world-class basketball skills to play his way out of the digital game and return to the real world.

Conversely, the video game’s version of De’Aaron has switched bodies with the real De’Aaron Fox; he is living lavishly in the real world unbeknownst to De’Aaron’s family, friends, and teammates.

The first installment of Swipa The Fox is slated to be released in the Summer of 2021.