Join us for a special conversation at California College of the Arts (CCA), featuring Art of Manga exhibition artist Tagame Gengoroh on Saturday, October 25, 2025 at 7pm. This conversation highlights Tagame’s work as a gay erotic artist and is moderated by Justin Hall, professor of comics at CCA. Click here for tickets and further details.
Plus, don’t miss our second Cosplay Day at the de Young celebrating manga! Come dressed as your favorite character, enjoy themed activities, snap photos, and connect with fellow fans. Learn more.
About the speakers
Tagame Gengoroh calls himself a “gay erotic artist” and has long focused his manga work on love, both physical and emotional, between men. More recently he shifted hearts, minds, and attitudes in Japan with the powerful, award-winning manga My Brother’s Husband, which explored the process of reconciliation in a family with a member who held homophobic preconceptions. In 2018, My Brother’s Husband won a Will Eisner Hall of Fame Award for Best US Edition of International Material — Asia.
Justin Hall is the first Fulbright scholar of comics, a professor of comics at California College of the Arts, and the co-organizer of Pride in Panels: SF Queer Comics Festival as well as the curator of international exhibitions of comics art. He created titles including True Travel Tales, Hard to Swallow, and Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers, and has stories in Houghton Mifflin Best American Comics, Best Erotic Comics, and more. He edited the award-winning collection No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics and was producer of the award-winning documentary of the same name.
