Comics

Scott Adams, Dilbert comic strip creator and Trump fan, dead at 68

Fans can interact with a hologram of Stan Lee in an enclosed booth at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

AI hologram of Spider-Man creator Stan Lee debuts at Los Angeles Comic Con

More than 35,000 comics, spanning back catalogues and ongoing series, will be available via a single subscription, Disney and Webtoon say.

Webtoon shares soar on Disney investment, web comic venture

Greater Bay Airlines and Hong Kong Airlines have both scaled back some flights to Japan this month as officials implore the general public not to give stock to the rumours.

Travellers avoid trips to Japan over viral comic book’s quake prediction

Sony Group’s music arm is discussing an offer with Japanese fund Integral and the suitors are considering acquiring all of Infocom’s shares to take the Mecha Comics manga app operator private.

Sony plans bid versus Blackstone, KKR for US$1.3 billion manga app

Crunchyroll expects the anime industry will have more than 800 million fans globally by 2025 outside markets in China and Japan.

World’s top anime site Crunchyroll is Sony’s new money maker

While traditional anime franchises tend to showcase heroes navigating hostile worlds, isekai focuses instead on a chance at a do-over of life.

Hit Japan anime genre offers escape, second chances

Rootport, a writer who has previously worked on manga plots, entered combinations of text prompts such as “pink hair”, “Asian boy” and “stadium jacket” to conjure up images of the story’s hero in around a minute.

Machine magic or art menace? Japan’s first AI manga

One Piece manga series has racked up more than 100 volumes and smashed sales records since the first instalment appeared in 1997.

ChatGPT turns to manga in One Piece author experiment

A statue of character Monkey D. Luffy, also known as Straw Hat, is displayed at the One Piece anime souvenir shop in Tokyo.

Beloved Japanese manga One Piece heads into final chapter