Art from 'Cruella the Manga: Black, White, and Red,' Viz Media To coincide with the Disney live-action feature film Cruella, we discover where it all began for Estella – a young fashion designer in 1970s London whose obsession with rising to the top of the industry leads her down a path of growing cruelty. A trio of wily scammers and thieves, they liberate wallets and valuable pieces from their former owners, but Estella is harboring a different ambition for her boundless creativity – the fashion industry. A naughty girl with a defiant streak against authority, this is Estella's life on the streets with her best friends and partners-in-(petty)-crime, Horace and Jasper. Gifted with talent, innovation, and ambition, Estella dreamed of becoming a fashion designer, but the world seemed intent on making sure her dreams would never come true. The story of Estella's transformation to Cruella – the untold backstory of where it all began… Oh and, it's fabulously set in London's fashionable 1970's punk rock era. The character arc we have all been waiting for.

This month, VIZ will publish Cruella: The Manga. Villains get to be sassy, they get to be dismissive, and they get to push past the boundaries of polite society that we dare not ourselves.

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