This Month
Asian tourists are avoiding Japan. The reason might surprise you
A viral manga prophecy predicting a massive earthquake on July 5 has led to slashed flights and emptied Mount Fuji trails – rattling the tourism industry.
May
Farewell, Alex: conceited, boomer (cartoon) banker
After 38 years, the comic strip is bowing out. Both sharply satirical and acutely anthropological, it got right inside the pinstriped world of high finance.
September 2022
How Alex cartoon creators find the funny side of finance
The creators of Alex are cartoonists not bankers, but they’re uncannily good at skewering the world of finance. What’s their secret sauce? The answer: lunch.
March 2022
Rare Marvel comic book sells for $3.2m
This first edition, in which the publisher recorded the payments he owed to the illustrators, is in remarkable condition for a publication dating to 1939.