REUTERS/Pichi Chuang Once you board the plane, you'll find Hello Kitty designs everywhere — even the toilet paper is covered in the cartoon. Hello Kitty headrests. REUTERS/Pichi Huang ...

Participants of Hello Kitty Con during its opening night on Oct. 29, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. Stefanie Keenan—Getty Images The first question is of course, why doesn’t she have a mouth.

Iconic Sanrio character Hello Kitty is to be made into a motion picture from New Line Cinema By ADAM S. LEVY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 20:27 EDT, 5 March 2019 | Updated: 20:35 EDT, 5 March 2019 ...

For Japan's Sanrio Company Ltd., the worldwide purveyor of everything Hello Kitty, its steady outpouring of cute-cat merchandise constitutes more than a product line; with more than 20,000 items ...

How Sanrio Turned Hello Kitty Into a Food Superstar From food trucks to wine, the brand’s most famous character is everywhere by Zan Romanoff Feb 28, 2018, 6:32 AM PST ...

To many people’s surprise, Hello Kitty didn’t start as a cartoon. Yuko Shimizu, a Sanrio illustrator, drew her as a decoration for stationery, tote bags, cups and other small accessories in 1974.

Pictures: Hello Kitty fan packs tiny flat with 50,000 of the cartoon collectibles Horse trainer Natasha Goldsmith, of Exeter in Devon, got hooked on the cartoon character as a teenager and has ...

In the time since the first simple coin purse was sold in Japan back in 1974, Hello Kitty has become a multibillion-dollar empire. A retrospective in Los Angeles celebrates the beloved cartoon cat.

“Hello Kitty is not a cat,” Jill Koch, the senior vice president of marketing and brand management at Sanrio, the creators of the iconic cartoon, told Today. “She’s actually a little girl.” ...

The cartoon has inspired artists such as Tom Sachs, whose Hello Kitty sculpture stood near Manhattan’s Park Avenue in 2008, and detractors, such as the author of the satirical kittyhell.com blog.

"Hello Kitty is not a cat," Christine R. Yano, an anthropologist and the author of Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific, told the L.A. Times on Wednesday, Aug. 27.