SPECIAL REPORT The Impact of Japanese Comics and Animation in Asia By Ng Wai-ming Photo : © Fujiko Pro‚ © Nintendo‚ © SANRIO CO.‚ LTD. Japan is a manga superpower. It has replaced the United States as the world’s largest exporter of comics and animation. In Asia‚ Japanese comics and animation have been very popular and influential from the 1980s to the present. Nowadays‚ almost all Asian nations have their own editions of Japanese comics and their televisions show Japanese animated series
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Thesis Statement This is my thesis statement -- while American animation and Japanese animation both have their virtues‚ the style of American animation‚ in general‚ has a significant amount of higher quality. Where to Begin? Where to be Going? To begin with‚ one of the major problems that has hindered American animation is budget and time constraints. On the other hand‚ in Japan‚ anime has been allowed to flourish all over. When it comes to animation‚ it seems that Hollywood simply does
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considerable contributions to multimillion-dollar entertainment companies such as Marvel and DC comics are attributed to her film studies in college and of course - shear talent. According to DC Comics‚ she also became well known for a popular humor column called “You’ll Be Sorry” which was featured on Comic Book Resources. Soon after she got the opportunity to write for Bongo Comics writing The Simpsons comic scripts‚ which then ushered her into mainstream writing for DC Comic’s “Deadpool”. “In the years
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Publications dipped their hands into different genres to write comics about. Some of the genres include: horror‚ Westerns‚ humor‚ funny animal‚ men’s adventure-drama‚ giant monster‚ crime‚ war comics jungle‚ romance‚ espionage‚ medieval‚ Bible‚ and sports comics. Goodman began to use his company’s logo‚ the Atlas News Company‚ on comics so he could distribute them better. This made Timely Publications’ comics more commonly known as Atlas Comics instead of the usual Timely Publications. Atlas started to
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understand that the terms “comics” and “graphic novels” describe a medium rather than a genre. The difference is that a genre is a type of story‚ with certain rules that it must follow in order to fit into that genre. “Westerns‚” “mysteries‚” “romances” are examples of genre. A medium is a form of expression like movies‚ novels or poetry. Essentially‚ a medium is just a blank slate with no rules governing what it can be used to do. Until recently (the last 10-20 years)‚ comics in North America were
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The Beano “Comics are becoming the new pop art. The new post modern communication. This is not just comics‚ but a new breathtaking new multi-media format. Comics are the new culture.” (Kapur) The development of comics is extremely important – firstly because it is a massive industry but also because it has huge cultural implications. An example of this is that in most movies based on fictional characters there is a ‘bad guy (or guys) that are trying to take over the world or trying to destroy
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In reviewing Charles Simic’s latest collection for the New York Times‚ Katha Pollitt briefly (and importantly) mentions his work as a translator of Serbo-Croatian poets‚ including Vasko Popa and Ivan Lalic. I adore Popa’s work‚ but am unfamiliar with Lalic’s‚ beyond the poems Simic included in his anthology of Serbian poets‚ The Horse Has Six Legs. Another star from this anthology‚ whose name I don’t often see mentioned (certainly not as frequently as Popa’s) is Aleksandar Ristovic. In his introduction
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that propaganda could get around was through comics‚ something that was widely used throughout the western countries. Conveying anti-Communist messages from characters or the over arching plot of the story. Many famous comic book companies took this towards their advantage throughout the tension of the war. Colliding art and literature influenced by the war into one for a way of media and reflecting the conflicts going on. The Cold War influenced many comics and was thought as "consistently propagandistic"
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Marvel Comics vs. DC Comics Which one is better? Comics‚ they are the earliest form of entertainment for kids and adults and they are still entertaining up to today. Though there are many publishers of comic books nowadays‚ Marvel Comics and DC Comics the most known today all over the world. Despite Marvel’s vast number of comics‚ DC Comics; in my opinion though‚ might be just as good as Marvel Comics. I think Marvel comics is the best for me‚ because when I was growing up‚ I enjoyed the Spider-Man
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"whimsical pictures‚" in 1814 to describe his woodblock prints. With the end of Japanese isolationism in the 1850s‚ American and European comic artists
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