One thousand years of manga

The origins of manga

The magic of the scroll: from the earliest caricatures to the onset of the comic strip

The birth of the Japanese print: the golden age of caricature

The dawn of a new type of caricature: Japan opens up to the West

The rise of the comic strip to the second world war

Tezuka Osamu: the "god" of modern manga

Manga today

Selected portraits of manga artists

From the manga to anime: the work of Studio Ghibli

Reciprocal influences

Glossary

Timeline

Our ancestors the mangaka

Chronology

Recent statistics from Japan

Selected bibliography.