The current issue of Wired is all about manga – how the industry works and how it conquered America.

Two stories:

• (pdf) How Manga Conquered the U.S., a Graphic Guide to Japan’s Coolest Export, the story of Manga in the US told using Manga.
• Japan, Ink: Inside the Manga Industrial Complex

Read some manga and learn how to draw it in these books, and a favorite from my childhood.

Take a a trip to Japan, it’s beautiful.

Related posts:

• Haikyo (廃墟写真, Haikyo Shashin) – Japan Photography of Ruins
• Paintings from Living Rice – Inakadate, Japan
• Momus – The Norwegian, the Scotsman and the Japanese

posted by Trout Monfalco