Japanese comics commonly known as manga are a global sensation. Critics scholars and everyday readers have often viewed this artform through an Orientalist framework treating manga as the exotic antithesis to American and European comics. In reality the history of manga is deeply intertwined with Japans avid importation of Western technology and popular culture in the early twentieth century. Comics and the Origins of Manga reveals how popular U.S. comics characters like Jiggs and Maggie the Kat