Manga

My freshman seminar ended last week. One of the mangaka that we read is Ishinomori Shotaro. I just put in an order for the 500 volume Ishinomori daizenshu (complete works) that has just started coming out. It will be published at the rate of about 40 volumes every three months during 2006-2008.

Here are some resources in the manga collection related to Ishinomori Shotaro — Continue reading

Alison Raab’s MS thesis, “Manga in Academic Library Collections: Definitions, Strategies, and Bibliography for Collecting Japanese Comics,” Continue reading

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.

During the first session of the seminar I introduced three early mangaka who were very influential both as cartoonists and also as teachers of the next generation of Japanese cartoonists. The Cartoon Research Library manga collection includes works by and/or about these mangaka. Continue reading

This quarter I am teaching a freshman seminar Continue reading

The excellent and profusely illustrated reference book about manga, Manga Design by Wiedemann, Julius (ed.) & Masanao Amano (Taschen, 2004), contains brief essays exploring the creativity and artistry of 135 manga artists. A list of the mangaka included in this book is available at:

http://akira.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/hc/node/view/364

The manga collection is growing! Continue reading

Bungei‘s Summer 2005 issue (Volume 44 Number 2) focuses on Shiriagari Kotobuki しりあがり寿 Continue reading