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Kofi Bazzell-Smith is an artist, professional boxer, and the first professor of manga practice in the US, working as faculty at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

 At RIT he teaches a studio art course on manga drawing and storytelling and runs a summer study abroad course in Japan.

Kofi's work intersects Japan's globalizing efforts through popular culture and the rising academic interest in comic studies. 

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