Who are some current minimalist artists?

Anime: Who are some non-Asian manga artists who have achieved success in the industry in Japan?

• As in artists who have found steady work and actively participate in the anime/manga industry. It isn't uncommon for Taiwanese, Korean or Chinese artists to be active in the doujin scene or mainstream, but despite the popularity of the anime aesthetic in the West there seems to be rarely any artists from outside of Asia who find success in Japan. For example, Thiago Furukawa (under the pseudonym Yuu Kamiya) is one of the few exceptions - he is Brazilian-born but has a few notable productions to his credit. One could say that Fred Gallagher's Megatokyo counts because a volume of it was published in Japan, but it is otherwise unremarkable.

• Answer:

  Well first of all it depends on what you would call success. See it is almost impossible (at least right now) for a non asian mangaka to achieve the kind of success someone like Oda Eiichiro has achieved. So I feel Megatokyo is successful in a way that it has one volume published. But there is one more name which has found greater (comparatively) success than Fred - he is Mark Crilley. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Crilley has an OEL manga (I will come to this) to his name called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miki_Falls. It has 4 volumes published and was received pretty well. You can check it out. You should look for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_English-language_manga or World Manga. OEL stands for Original-English Language manga. Apparently tokyopop is encouraging US authors for manga-style comics and with Kodansha also getting interested means the no. of non-asian mangaka may increase in future.