Japanese pop culture

Japanese manga artist Kamentotsu, who goes by his pen name and wears a mask in media appearances, draws his four-panel strip comic 'Koguma's Cake Shop' at his workspace in Tokyo, Japan October 8, 2020. Picture taken October 8, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato
Global Economy

For manga's striving artists, success lurks online

Publishers squeezed by the rise of the internet can see an artist’s audience potential out in the open