AbstractFamous for his long-running manga, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Hirohiko Araki has had panels and artwork from the series featured in Western institutions of high art (including the Louvre) and in high fashion collaborations (with Gucci). Manga is the Japanese equivalent to comics and, as such, it is a medium generally regarded as mass-produced entertainment. The inclusion of Araki’s work within such esteemed circles, then, brings the very definition of artistic value into question. Due to the sequential imagery, narrative component, and sales-based nature of graphic literature, which might ordinarily mitigate against its regard as art, its history within museums and canonization within the art world is complex.