N.Y. museum opens to media exhibition on manga, featuring over 600 drawings

The Brooklyn Museum in New York on Wednesday gave a media preview of an exhibition focusing on manga as an art form, featuring more than 600 original drawings by popular manga artists.Conceived by the de Young Museum in San Francisco as a traveling exhibition, Art of Manga will open to the public from Saturday through Jan. 31. The Brooklyn Museum says it is rare for so many original manga drawings to be displayed together.Art of Manga features booths dedicated to 10 manga artists, including Tetsuya Chiba and the late Fujio Akatsuka, described on the museum's website as "foundational manga a…READ FULL ARTICLE