With the $16.5 million sale of a Pikachu Illustrator card confirming the strength of the nostalgia economy, the auction house is placing manga and anime—long dismissed as subculture—firmly within ...

In a surprising shift in the digital comics' industry, Japan has overtaken Korea as the largest market for Webtoon Entertainment Inc. This development shows a growing interest in the webtoon format ...

Japanese comics and graphic novels, known as manga, have a rich past, a phenomenal present and, perhaps, a transformative future. Now, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco is recognizing the ...

The original term for manga (漫画) can be read as “pictures run riot”. Manga refers to a Japanese visual narrative art form that has grown over the last 100 years to become a global phenomenon.

Akira Toriyama, a Japanese manga artist and creator of the influential Dragon Ball franchise, has died. He was 68. Toriyama's death was confirmed on Friday by his manga and design production studio, ...

Participate in an intensive manga production workshop at Japan's premier technical training school for manga. A studio-based Spring 2026 course in Rochester will teach you the idiosyncrasies of ...