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Another process video from our Christmas project!
https://youtu.be/LAkZYhaNTzk From sketch to final version, here's a process video of a Christmas Cake panel from our 2026 Christmas manga project. By Robin A. White. Created on an iPad Pro using Procreate app.
Behind the scenes with our new Christmas project
This month we’re releasing a new manga booklet as a free outreach resource for churches, missionaries and ministries in Japan. The booklet features a Waypoints Christmas story, plus (on the flip side) a new, original cartoony Christmas story set in modern times. We're planning to start taking...
Gallery Nani Exhibit (Video)
Throughout September 2025, Drawbridge director and artist Robin White had some of his work on display at Gallery Nani in Seto (near Nagoya), along with work by Stephen McCranie, in an exhibit called “The Story Behind the Story.” Gallery Nani is run by a missionary couple there who use this space...
Drawbridge Creations Annual Report 2026
Thank you for your interest our ministry! At Drawbridge Creations we create manga to bridge the gap between Jesus and Japan. Here’s a brief update about what we’ve been up to the past year and where we’re going in 2026. Waypoints: Our ongoing web manga series featuring short stories adapted from...
Artist Intro: Kyo Wakame
As most of you may know by now, we recently partnered with ZOE Japan to produce a manga called “Don’t Give Up!” Today we want to introduce the artist who illustrated this story for us: Kyo Wakame. Kyo Wakame is an illustrator who lives in Hokkaido, in the northern part of Japan. She’s been drawing...
Drawbridge Creations 2025
It’s been way too long since this blog has been updated! So here’s what’s been going on with our ministry in the past year or so. In late 2023, after 2+ years of online manga content, we published our first printed manga — a short booklet featuring one of the stories from Waypoints, our online...
Waypoints Artist Intro: Masumi Noda
As we come to the end of 2023, we’re currently working on the final Waypoints manga of the year — a Christmas story we’re releasing online on December 14. Today, I want to introduce you to the artist for this story, a new collaborator, Masumi Noda. Masumi Noda is a Japanese artist who studied...
Waypoints Artist Intro: Igor Cicarini
One thing we’re grateful for at Drawbridge Creations is the wealth of talent we’ve been privileged to work with on our current manga project Waypoints. Besides myself, five artists have illustrated our stories, helping us to create 16 short manga so far. Every artist has brought something...
Face to Face
The past couple of years, Covid-19 has limited our in-person interactions with the missionary and church communities here in Japan. Many events were cancelled or online only. On the one hand, this gave us plenty of time to focus on creating manga and building our online presence. On the other, it...
Empowering Christian Artists
This is the third post in a blog series re-introducing our ministry. Parts one and two are HERE and HERE. As we shared before, the vision of Drawbridge is to use manga to... To reach the unchurched, resource the Church, and empower Christian artists, in order to bridge the gap between Church and...