>>5753380Because less than one percent of popular things things created go global. There are hundress, thousands of incredibly talented artists from many countries. Many of those artists you almost certainly haven't heard of, despite being just as deserving of fame as the comtemporary artists that are famous
Jesper Ejsing, Rebecca Guay, Hajime Soryama, Anna Paveela, Arthur Yuan, Blake Rottinger, Drew Tucker, Raymond Swanland, Mads Ahm, Livia Prima. And these are only the painters I know of. Anyone actually familiar with sequential art can give you some lesser known sequential artists, I am sure
This isn't a matter of muh anime or muh weebery. There's only so much room in pop culture.