Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics
1983 book by Frederik L. Schodt
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Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics is a 1983 book by Frederik L. Schodt. Published by the Japanese publisher Kodansha, it was the first substantial English-language work on Japanese comics, or manga, as an artistic, literary, commercial, and sociological phenomenon. Part of Schodt's motivation for writing it was to introduce manga to English speakers.[1] The book is copiously illustrated and features a foreword by Osamu Tezuka. It also includes translated excerpts from Tezuka's Phoenix, Keiji Nakazawa's Barefoot Gen, Riyoko Ikeda's The Rose of Versailles, and the Leiji Matsumoto short story "Ghost Warrior".
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| Author | Frederik L. Schodt |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Kodansha |
Publication date | 1983 |
Manga! Manga! was enthusiastically reviewed in the mainstream and comics press and received a prominent endorsement from Stan Lee.
In 1996, Stone Bridge Press published Schodt's "sequel" to Manga! Manga!, Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga. In the introduction to this book, Schodt states that a Japanese bistro in Berkeley, California, took its name from Manga! Manga!
Contents
- Foreword by Osamu Tezuka
- A Thousand Million Manga
- Themes and Readers
- Reading, and the Structure of Narrative Comics
- Why Japan?
- 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
- The Spirit of Japan
- Paladins of the Past
- Modern-Day Warriors
- Samurai Sports
- Flowers and Dreams
- Picture Poems
- Women Artists Take Over
- Sophisticated Ladies
- The Economic Animal at Work and at Play
- Pride and Craftsmanship
- Mr. Lifetime Salary-Man
- Mah Jongg Wizards
- Regulation versus Fantasy
- Is There Nothing Sacred?
- Social and Legal Restraints
- Erotic Comics
- The Comics Industry
- Artists
- Publishers
- Profits
- The Future
- The New Visual Generation
- Challenges for the Industry
- First Japan, Then the World?
