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In the 1960s, the Japanese manga culture expanded its readership to young people. While this expansion of readership strengthened the commercial nature of manga, it also gave rise to experimental and radical works that took literature and art as their reference points. In particular, as the discourse of self-expression, according to which literature or art should express the author’s self, flourished in Japan, some manga artists tried to express their selves through the medium of manga. Among them, Nagashima Shinji was one of the most popular comics artists of the time. He produced many stories about manga artists. In Fūten, published in the late 1960s, Nagashima used himself as the model for the protagonist, a technique that is reminiscent of the tradition of the autobiographical novel in the modern Japanese literature. This paper focuses on the new cultural intersection of self-expression and self-representation in the manga culture in the 1960s, focusing on the production and reception of Fūten. Referring to the cultural contexts, such as the development of manga as a youth culture, the popularization of self-expression, and the increase of paratexts about manga artists in the comics magazine COM, this paper will clarify the cultural and media environment in which Fūten was produced and received as a self-representational text.