manga

[danohu]

I mentioned I was translating an article on manga; it's now online. Essentially it's an eminent French academic - and manga fanboy - explaining why manga is so popular in France

I'd be fascinated by what people make of it; not just emmav and the rest of the manga fans, but also the larger crowd who love Transmetropolitan &c. Because a good chunk of the argument is precisely what Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison, and Alan Moore have spent decades grumbling about, and fighting against: the fact that a lot of Western superhero comics are really, really bad - slow-paced, unimaginative, unable to imagine readers who aren't boys or nostalgic men. And I'm not convinced that's true any more: manga may be more inventive than mainstream comics, but is it really more inventive than all the fringe stuff that's popped up since the 80s?

Comments

[megamole.livejournal.com]

"The French baby-boomer generation who grew up in the 1970s had, like their Japanese counterparts, had been reading comics since childhood."

Zigackly.

[oedipamaas49.livejournal.com]

doh! thanks.

[That one looks like it got inserted by an editor. There are other booboos which are my fault, though]

[emmav.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'll have to have a read when I get a chance, thanks for posting this ^_^

[katzenfabrik.livejournal.com]

Hello! I don't think we've actually met but we seem to have mutual friends and your posts are interesting. Mind if I add you as a friend?

[oedipamaas49.livejournal.com]

I'd be delighted.