The Japanese market for manga is worth hundreds of billions of yen and is a crowded field for many young Japanese illustrators to break into. And if you¡¯re coming from overseas, there are even more obstacles.
Fredric Toutlemonde, however, has been successful in tackling those obstacles. Ten years ago, the French amateur cartoonist launched Euromanga, a small publishing company whose aim was to introduce European comics to Japanese readers.
¡°For the first four years, I put out a magazine of the same name,¡± Toutlemonde tells The Japan Times. ¡°Now I only publish books, about four to six volumes a year.¡±
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