Makoto Wada ( 和田誠 , b. 1936) is best known as an illustrator whose work has adorned the pages of writers as diverse as Shinichi Hoshi,...

Superhero comics usually rely on familiar character types and formulaic plots of good overcoming evil and restoring the status quo.  ...

Jimmy T. Murakami , whom Giannalberto Bendazzi has called one of the “Globe Trotters of Animation”, began  The Insects (aka Insect...

This 15-minute stop motion animation is an important landmark in Japanese animation history.  A Wonderful Medicine ( ふしぎなくすり , 1965) ...

The fantastic world of Shigeru Tamura ’s illustrations and animations is a curious combination of science fiction landscapes with 19th and e...