Industry Guests of Honor

Glenn Kardy is the founder of Tokyo-based Manga University, one of the world's leading publishers of English-language lifestyle manga, including the acclaimed How to Draw Manga series, the award-winning Manga Cookbook collection, and the Kanji de Manga language-learning lineup.

Originally from California, Glenn has lived in Japan since 1995 and has had the good fortune of working with and befriending professional comic artists, animators, musicians, entertainers, athletes, academics, and eccentrics on both sides of the Pacific.

Yukio Onishi is an illustrator, artist assistant, book layout designer, and occasional art editor living in Chiba, Japan. Yukio wrote and illustrated Manga University’s How to Draw Manga: The Female Figure, How to Draw Manga: The Male Physique, and How to Draw Manga: Focus on Faces, and was one of three artists who contributed to How to Draw Manga: Basics and Beyond! Yukio’s artwork is also featured in Kana de Manga Special Edition: Shortcuts and Konnichiwa: Let’s Learn Japanese!

Yukio’s other interests include cooking, gardening, and binging TV series—mythologies and medieval fantasies. If it has Vikings, dragons, magic, or horseback battles, Yukio will watch it.