Danica Davidson
April 12, 2021 
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is offering a virtual event this year, and they’re excited to announce that mangaka Nagata Kabi will be joining them.
Kabi is the creator of My Alcoholic Escape from Reality, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness and My Solo Exchange Diary. My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness and My Solo Exchange Diary have both been published by Seven Seas, with My Alcoholic Escape from Reality being released by Seven Seas next month. Her newest manga is Straying Warrior Kabi Nagata: Go Gourmet!, which debuted in Japan in February and has not yet been licensed.
Featured guests at #TCAF2021!
We at #TCAF are so excited to announce featured guest Nagata Kabi (@gogatsubyyyo)! Her latest work, My Alcoholic Escape from Reality, is out this May from Seven Seas Entertainment. pic.twitter.com/QOtXnTcqYR
— TCAF The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (@TorontoComics) April 5, 2021
They explained further, going into detail on how Kabi debuted her work on pixiv and quickly gathered a following:
More about Nagata Kabi:
Born in 1987, Nagata Kabi first uploaded her manga on her experience with lesbian escort services to the popular art-sharing site pixiv, where it received nearly five million views before being published in print as (cont.)
— TCAF The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (@TorontoComics) April 5, 2021
My Alcoholic Escape from Reality will be released by Seven Seas in May 2021. She is currently serializing Wandering Warrior: Nagata Kabi—Go Gourmet! in the online magazine webAction.
— TCAF The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (@TorontoComics) April 5, 2021
Kabi’s publisher Seven Seas was also pretty excited.
In case you missed it, this is WONDERFUL news! We're so happy that Nagata Kabi-sensei will be a featured guest at virtual #TCAF2021 next month! Read all about it in the thread below~ https://t.co/ZE7mnMtuAb
— Seven Seas (@gomanga) April 7, 2021
Toronto Comics Arts Festival will take place May 8-15.
Source: Toronto Comic Arts Festival Twitter
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, and its sequel, Manga Art for Intermediates, with professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
