Categorizing Types of Illustrated Storytelling

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Thu May 04, 2006 11:45 pm

I disagree, MCD. Where one could say "its a manga style" in slang. traditonally, it doesn't matter what it looks like, if it comes from japan its a manga.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Fri May 05, 2006 6:56 am

There is American manga, and then there is even European manga (early "Gipsy" for instance). Manga is not a geographically defined term, although it may have started like one.

Ideal Comics · Post by **Ideal Comics** » Fri May 05, 2006 9:16 am

Off Topic:
McD, You know those things will kill ya.

On Topic:

Face it, to a certain extent, you are both right. in the same way brits keep their engines in their bonnets and smoke fags with their mates on the lift, manga here and there are not necessarily the same thing. Its all a product of the evolution of language, english specifically.

rhys

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Fri May 05, 2006 9:37 am

Ideal Comics wrote:in the same way brits keep their engines in their bonnets and smoke fags with their mates on the lift,

Is my cigar distracting you?

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Fri May 05, 2006 9:52 am

And I suppose we are both right, course me for one will never call big eyes little mouth stylized art-- manga. Because its not, unless it is a japanese comic book. There's also a diffrence if its printed, and mostly consumed in japan. I know there are german and american manga artists in japan, who have gotten some popularity. which again is a diffrent can of worms. as those are japanese comic books.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Fri May 05, 2006 6:22 pm

Manga isn't just big eyes and little mouth, it's big eyes drawn in a specific way, specific shape of face, specific way of drawing other facial features, and in the end, specific manga genres and reoccuring mothives... in other words, a kind of "when I see it, I know it is manga". There are manga artists all over the worls, manga is consumed all over the world, it might've been a Japanese things once, but as soon as it got populat, it wasn't anymore.