Curated category
Manga distributors
- Dark Horse ComicsDark Horse Comics was founded in Milwaukie, Oregon, in 1986, and it began not with investors or a corporate mandate but with the proceeds from a chain of…
- ShogakukanShogakukan operates as a Japanese state-owned enterprise under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
- KodanshaKodansha, the largest publisher in Japan, began not as a publishing house but as a spin-off of a public speaking society.
- Kadokawa ShotenKadokawa Shoten no longer exists as its own company. On the 1st of October 2013, it became an internal division of Kadokawa Corporation.
- Viz MediaViz Media commands nearly a quarter of the graphic novel market in the United States, yet the company traces back to a single man from Tokushima Prefecture…
- HakusenshaHakusensha is a Japanese publishing company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and it was born out of one of Japan's most powerful media empires.
- Central Park MediaCentral Park Media Corporation got its name from a corner. The company's offices sat at 250 West 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan, right on the edge of…
- Studio ProteusStudio Proteus was a company born from a single conviction: that Japanese comics belonged in American hands. Toren Smith founded it in San Francisco in 1986…
- TokyopopTokyopop arrived in 1997 with a bold claim: that American teenagers, and especially teenage girls, were hungry for Japanese comics.
- Glénat ÉditionsGlénat Éditions began not in a boardroom but in the imagination of a student named Jacques Glénat, who in 1969 launched a comics fanzine called Schtroumpf…