Comics
AI hologram of Spider-Man creator Stan Lee debuts at Los Angeles Comic Con
[LOS ANGELES] Wearing a green sweater and tan pants against a bright blue screen, Marvel comic book superhero creator Stan Lee will return to LA Comic Con in holographic form to meet fans of his chara...
Webtoon shares soar on Disney investment, web comic venture
The broader partnership comes a month after the two companies announced their initial intent to collaborate
Travellers avoid trips to Japan over viral comic book’s quake prediction
The country’s location in the so-called Ring of Fire makes it one of the world’s most earthquake-prone countries
Sony plans bid versus Blackstone, KKR for US$1.3 billion manga app
Teijin seeks to sell stake in Mecha Comics operator Infocom
World’s top anime site Crunchyroll is Sony’s new money maker
WHEN top anime streaming platform Crunchyroll was first gaining popularity as a pirated-video site in the mid-2000s, Japanese animation was considered a niche form of entertainment, appealing mainly t...
Hit Japan anime genre offers escape, second chances
GETTING hit by a truck doesn’t sound like anyone’s favourite fantasy, but it’s an idea central to an escapist type of Japanese anime exploding in popularity.
Machine magic or art menace? Japan’s first AI manga
THE author of a sci-fi manga about to hit shelves in Japan admits he has “absolutely zero” drawing talent, so turned to artificial intelligence (AI) to create the dystopian saga.
ChatGPT turns to manga in One Piece author experiment
THE AI programme ChatGPT has passed exams, penned news articles and produced code. So perhaps no surprise that “One Piece” author Eiichiro Oda has turned to it for inspiration.
Beloved Japanese manga One Piece heads into final chapter
AFTER 25 years and 490 million copies sold worldwide, the beloved Japanese manga One Piece is entering its final chapter, according to its creator Eiichiro Oda. The manga, which follows the adventure...
Rare copy of first Marvel comic sells for US$2.4m
The book, published in 1939, is known as the 'pay copy', in which the publisher recorded payments he owed to illustrators
