Manga! Manga! : the world of Japanese comics / Frederik L. Schodt.
Manga in Japanese means "comics," and comics in Japan are simply the most marvelous multifaceted misunderstood mass-market monster publishing phenomenon ever, anywhere. A multibillion dollar industry ... tens of millions of devoted fans ... thousands of ceaselessly toiling artists, a few o...
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Tokyo ; New York :
Kodansha International,
1983.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Osamu Tezuka
- I.A thousand million manga
- Themes and readers
- Reading, and the structure of narrative comics
- Why Japan?
- II. A thousand years of manga
- The comic art tradition
- Western styles
- Safe and unsafe art
- Comics and the war machine
- The phoenix becomes a Godzilla
- III. The spirit of Japan
- Paladins of the past
- Modern day warriors
- Samurai sports
- IV. Flowers and dreams
- Picture poems
- Women artists take over
- Sophisticated ladies
- V. The economic animal at work and at play
- Pride and craftsmanship
- Mr. lifetime salary man
- Mah jongg wizards
- VI. Regulation versus fantasy
- Is there nothing sacred?
- Social and legal restraints
- Erotic comics
- VII. The comics industry
- Artists
- Publishers
- Profits
- VIII. The future
- The new visual generation
- Challenges for the industry
- First Japan, then the world?
- IX. Selections from Japanese comics
- Phoenix / Osamu Tezuka
- Ghost warrior / Reiji Matsumoto
- The rose of Versailles / Riyoko Ikeda
- Barefoot gen / Keiji Nakazawa.