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Has manga lost its true identity?

Manga’s origins lie in illustrated handscrolls from the 12th and 13th centuries, but manga as readers know it today can be ...
Everything can tell a story. The direction of the light can indicate the time of day, a facial expression can convey a mood, ...
One of Japan’s—and the world’s—most beloved art forms is getting a rightful tribute at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Opening in September, “Art of Manga” will array more than 700 drawings by ...
‘Art of Manga’ at the de Young Museum is the first large-scale exhibition of its kind in San Francisco. Pictured above is art work from the Takahashi Rumiko (高橋留美子) manga, ‘MAO’ (MAO マオ). (© Rumiko ...
CLAMP will be holding this exhibit at the National Art Center in Roppongi, Tokyo and will be a large-scale original art exhibition tracing back through CLAMP’s creative activities up until now. The ...
Clip Studio Paint, the industry-standard software for manga artists, is now available on the iPhone. Unlike the iPad version, which is just an identical clone of the desktop app ported over for the ...
For years, all of Kawanabe Kyōsai’s prints and paintings bore the same inscription: Shōjō Kyōsai. The second word, which roughly translates to “crazy studio,” is the name he chose for himself right ...
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Manga launches with a huge 750,000 print run from Scholastic Graphix. Dav Pilkey teams up ...