About

Bartkira is a fan art project featuring crossover recreations of the Akira manga and anime film with characters from The Simpsons.

Origin

On April 1st, 2013, the Bartkira Tumblr^[2] blog was launched by artists Ryan Humphrey and James Harvey, highlighting illustrations of comic panels from the Akira manga redrawn with characters from The Simpsons (shown below).

Spread

On April 5th, 2013, the website Bartkira.com^[4] was launched, which features completed Simpsons-Akira crossover artwork. Within two years, the project accumulated three volumes of Bartkira manga comics. In May 2014, Bartkira was featured in an art show at Floating World Comics in Portland, Oregon.^[6] On January 11th, 2015, Redditor JustAsLost submitted the Bartkira website to the /r/movies^[5] subreddit.

Animated Film Project

On November 19th, 2014, animator Kaitlin Sullivan launched the Tumblr^[3] blog Bartkira Road Show to promote the Bartikira group animation project. On July 4th, 2015, Sullivan uploaded a trailer for an upcoming Bartkira animated film to Vimeo (shown below). The following day, the Bartkira Roadshow YouTube^[1] channel reuploaded the video. In the coming days, the trailer was reblogged by several news sites, including The Daily Dot,^[7] The Verge,^[8] AV Club,^[9] Anime News Network^[10] and UpRoxx.^[11]

Various Examples

Search Interest

External References