Rebelde is a Mexican

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 series, published by ¡Ka-Boom! Estudio

¡Ka-Boom! Estudio

¡Ka-Boom! Estudio is a Mexican comic book company and creative team formed by artists, illustrators, designers, animators and writers.Founded in 1994 by Oscar González Loyo, Oscar González Guerrero and Susana Romero.-Publications:...

, based on the telenovela

Telenovela

A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

 of the same title. The comic was first published April 2006

2006 in comics

-January:*January 1, 2006: Newsweek offer a look back at 2005 through editorial cartoons. *January 2, 2006: The Cincinnati Enquirer cartoonist Jim Borgman starts a blog to detail his creative process...

. The series' art was advertised as being based on the style of Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

, but evidently it doesn't have the same format, art style, or structure, thus leading to believe that there is the possibility that the producer Pedro Damián

Pedro Damián

Pedro Damián is a Mexican actor, television producer and director, who was executive producer for two teen telenovelas, Clase 406 and Rebelde, distributed within and outside Mexico.-Acting:...

 referred to it as manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 only as a publicity stunt to attract a larger audience, aided by the fact that Ka-Boom! Estudio has never produced a single Manga work before, focusing only on American style comic.

The artistic team is formed by Rebeca Soriano, writer; with art (in the first 2 issues) by Jorge Reséndiz, inks by Eridan Zumaya and color by Guillermo Piña; writing direction by Susana Romero; art direction by Oscar González Guerrero

Oscar González Guerrero

Oscar González Guerrero, born January 17, 1926 in Mexico City; is a comic book artist mostly known for his co-creations Hermelinda Linda and Zor y Los Invencibles...

, and the direction and editing of the project by Oscar González Loyo

Oscar González Loyo

Oscar González Loyo, born April 11, 1959 in Mexico City; is a comic book artist, author of Karmatrón y Los Transformables. He is also founder and CEO of ¡Ka-Boom! Estudio...

. Future artists in the series will be Horacio Sandoval

Horacio Sandoval

Horacio Miguel Sandoval Pérez is a comic book artist, member of ¡Ka-Boom! Estudio.- Career :His first professional assignment was as the artist of Los Pequeños Muppets , Los Picapiedra , Los Pequeños Picapiedra and Tom and Jerry.He worked as the artist for Editorial Toukan's...

(pencils) and Ricardo Nava (inks).