RIP Keiji Nakazawa. Barefoot Gen remains one of the greatest masterpieces ever created in the medium of comic books.
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Manga is a virtual image.
Manga is sentimental.
Manga is resistance.
Manga is masturbation.
Manga is eccentric.
Manga is pathos.
Manga is destruction.
Manga is arrogance.
Manga is affection.
Manga is kitsch.
Manga is a sense of wonder.
Manga is…
there are no conclusions yet.
Osamu Tezuka (via tezukainenglish)
Sorry to hear this; I still need to read the entire manga. The movie was magnificent and I can only assume that the comics surpass it.
You know why, over in Japan, there are so many women drawing manga? Because in the 1970s, an editor named Junya Yamamoto decided that his girls’ manga might sell better if they were drawn by young women rather than middle-aged men, so he hired a bunch of young female artists. Okay, that wasn’t the only reason women took over shojo manga. The other reason was that these women were all totally awesome at drawing manga. But if Yamamoto hadn’t been there to scoop up their work, they probably would have drawn less, or focused on the small-press world rather than the big publishers, or given up on comics. Instead, the manga industry got amazing artists like Moto Hagio, Keiko Takemiya, Riyoko Ikeda, and Yasuko Aoike. Admittedly, Moto Hagio is probably only the second-greatest manga artist ever, but only because it is literally impossible to beat Osamu Tezuka.
Shaenon Garrity, All the Comics in the World: Sexism (via ladiesmakingcomics)
Now see, here’s a quote I actually like from that very same article I brought up yesterday.
Gyo - Junji Ito
One of the few mangas I’ve read that legitimately nauseated me.
Wanna know the perfect recipe for shitting your pants? I’ll tell you anyway: Read this manga while listening to Delirium Cordia by Fantomas.
News! - Viz announced that they will be releasing Shotaro Ishinomori’s Link To The Past manga that originally ran in Nintendo Power in the 90s! The manga will be collected into 1 volume, to be released in May. This will be the first Ishinomori manga title in print that we’ve seen in quite some time. I’ll post more info as it’s released!
!!!! It is time
trill
Love is love, and manga is manga.
Tsugumi Ohba, Bakuman.
See/read more in my post on early shōjo manga at danmazurcomics.com:
"The revolutionary material produced in the 1970s by the “Year 24 Group” — the first major wave of women mangaka – was a culmination of aesthetic and thematic developments of the previous 50 years. I don’t think the term “genre,” as we generally use it, fits here; for me, shōjo manga, as it has evolved, embodies a broad, complex aesthetic category, one that can accomodate many genres — maybe we can call shōjo a gender of manga (regardless of the biological gender of its creators or readers — see Itō, Kimiō, When a “Male” Reads Shōjo Manga).Shōjo represents an example of the power of a marginalized aesthetic, one of those cases in popular culture where a form designed to reinforce a power structure (in this case the gender roles of girls and women in Japan), can expose the conflicts and contradictions within that structure and have a destabilizing effect.”
Fascinating reading and worth checking out for the spectacular illustrations alone.
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Congealing out of the same miasma of post-war transgressive fiction as Yukio Mishima and Osamu Dazai, no word comes to mind as a descriptor for Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s comics as “vengeful”-against parents, lovers, bosses, but nothing and no one moreso than decorum. The first page of Abandon the Old in Tokyo is an illustration of a man taking a shit, and from there we can only expect the worst: murder, infidelity and sickness become stalwart visitors of Tatsumi’s sour, claustrophobic vision of mid-century Tokyo. There is a borderline viscous quality to Tatsumi’s meek and pallid men and his rigid layouts contain his stories in a singularly oppressive atmosphere; we watch scenes swell, erupt and exhale as the panic of the moment attempts and fails to escape the panel that contains it. Angular and paranoid, these are deeply insidious, at times comically bleak stories that ask what you wouldn’t give to not be human any more, if only just for a moment’s time.
We’re doing our best comics of the decade list over at Loser City! I got to gush out about Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Moto Hagio! Check it out! You’re sure to approve!!!!!
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