The first assignment for the manga seminar is Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama’s The Four Immigrants Manga translated, with an introduction and notes by Frederik L. Schodt.
Ohio State’s copy of the original 1931 edition (Manga yonin shosei / Henry Kiyama Yoshitaka 漫畵四人書生 / ヘンリー木山義喬) (published in San Francisco) is from the collections of the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art, Bill Blackbeard, Director.
We’re also reading Scott McCloud‘s Understanding Comics.