Almost all manga are drawn in black & white. Colour manga
exist, but they are exceptions, for example manga versions of
anim films which use original animation artwork.
Influences on the development of manga
- Successful works are then republished in collected form, in volumes, with high
printing quality. Author gets royalty.
- Because of this system, popular manga authors end up being very rich.
Early rental library (kashi-hon) period manga.
Pre-war and immediate post-war.
Machiko Hasegawa
(1920-1992)
(Kamen Rider)
Tetsuya Chiba Shigeru Mizuki
(Ashita no Joe, written by Ikki Kajiwara)
Leiji Matsumoto
Go Nagai
Otomo Katshuhiro
60s-70s- The Shojo
manga revolution.
Sanpei Shirato
90s-2000s Jiro Taniguchi
From 'Super Cruel and Terrible
Tales of Mangaka' by Nawoki Karasawa
Shintaro Kago
From 'Disappearance Diary'
Manga by Hideo Azuma in
by Hideo Azuma. -
the style he's known for-
autobiographical manga.
'Lolicon'.
1960s- development of an avant-garde
- The manga magazines 'Garo' and 'Com' focus on formal and
narrative complexity.
-Ryan Holmberg.
(http://comicscomicsmag.com/2010/04/ryan-ho
lmberg-on-the-early-garo.html)
Other important authors published in Garo.
Yoshiharu Tsuge
Yoshihiro Tatsumi Kazuichi Hanawa
Yasuji Tanioka.
Suehiro Maruo
Maki Sasaki
Hanako Yamada
(1970s-present) - The Doujinshi
Movement
'Doujinshi'- self-published comic or magazine.
This genre, unique not only in comics, but in literature itself, are stories featuring
male-male romantic and erotic relationships but consumed and produced exclusively by
women.
It began in doujinshi circles, and grew out of shojo manga. There were some shojo
manga authors like Moto Hagio, Keiko Takemiya who did some stories featuring male
homoerotic relationships. The amateurs picked up on the trope and focussed on making
male-male relationships with characters from popular boys manga.
Reno Amagi.
A Boys Love 'doujinshi'
(self-published comic)
based on 'Lord of the Rings'
characters.
and then there is the whole world of 'echchi', or 'eromanga', that is,
pornographic comics that make up a large part of the manga world, both among
men and women...