Manga ComicsGraphic Narrative

History Manga is comics, painting, drawing, sketch or caricature.

The Japanese word derived from the way decorating prints and

other art forms. Nowadays used outside of Japan with the meaning

as a Japanese comic book.

Manga has evolved from a combination of Ukiyo paintings

and the Eastern style of drawing, and took its current form shortly

after World War II. Manga is printed mostly in black and white,

not counting the covers and possibly the first few pages.

Popular manga are adapted to anime movies and series.

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The word manga was in common use after the

publication in the nineteenth century Hokusai’s Manga,

containing drawings from sketchbooks

sorted famous Ukiyo artist, Hokusai.

However, I jig (funny pictures) drawn in the

twelfth century by various artists, contain many manga-looking

elements such as emphasis on story and simple, artistic lines.

When Japan has opened for the

world in the mid-nineteenth

century (Meiji era), began to

bring Western artists to teach

their students the principles of

Japanese painting and creating

the image. In its current form,

manga start existing after World

War II.

In the twentieth century, the word manga began to relate mainly to the book, which in Japanese culture is treated differently than in the United States. Manga is the art

form and simultaneously the popular literature. Like its American counterpart, manga has been criticized as

contained violence and sexual themes, but there are no legal prohibitions that would try to limit what can be drawn in the manga, not counting the obscure laws

relating to all published materials, speakers, obscene works that generally should not be sold. This freedom has allowed artists to draw manga for every age group and for

each subject.

Japanese American

In Japan, manga is drawn, written

(vertical text) and printed from right to left. When the titles are translated into other languages ,

graphics and layout were reversed in a

process called ‘flopping’ so that books can be read from left to right. However, various

authors, such as Akira Toriyama, did not agree on a way to

modify their works, and wished to

maintain the foreign versions of the

original format from right to left.

Japanese manga has gained immense popularity and is being translated into many languages.

As a result of pressure fans and creators, more publishers began

offering size from right to left, and the format from left to right

disappeared, not counting exceptions.

This example shows manga in a format read from left to right This example shows

manga in a format read from right to left