Re: What's your favorite domestic manga

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:54:55 +0900,Miles Bader, wrote

"Aje RavenStar" <whinebucket@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Are there any graphic stories of US origin - whether 'manga'
style or otherwise - that have been translated, imported, and had any
success in Japan, and which ones? Not offerings from the big dogs like
Disney, DC, Marvel - we'll assume those, since they have the money and
marketing to push product at will instead of demand driven - but less
mainstream things, such as Elfquest.

Have even the "big dogs" had _any_ success in Japan with comics /
graphic stories (companies like disney have been successful in other
ways)?

Pre-WW II, major newspaper comics like Bringing Up Father and
other American-originated stories had a wide presence.

This is related in one or more of the books on Japanese graphic
story telling and its evolution from the original Japanese religious
scroll art.
Adult Manga - Sharon Kinsella © 2000 - SFPL* Subtitled
Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society

Manga Manga - SFPL* - Frederick Schodt

Japanese Dreamland SFPL* - Frederick Schodt

* SFPL indicates that I dug the book out of the stacks at the
San Francisco Public Library.

What I find depressing is the way classic well regarded stuff like
Tintin has essentially been turned into a source of bland images on bath
towels in Japan... (and I emphasize _bland_ -- there are lots of great
scenes from Tintin books that I'd personally love to have on a bath
towel, but they never, ever, choose those ones :-( ).

-Miles

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Ningen banji Human beings do
Samazama no Every single kind
Baka a suru Of stupid thing
--- 117th edition of Haifu Yanagidaru published in 1832

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