Manga Recon Show #009: Schedule of a Weekly MangaKa
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OP & ED: Theme from Blazing Transfer Student, "Blazing Transfer Student" by Toshihiko Seki.
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Manga Adaptations Discussion:
- Haruhi Suzumiya
- InuKami
- .hack//XXXX
- Gurren Lagan
- Family Complex has a great description of eye surgery, couched in a very boring regular story. Here's my review.
- Peach Pit was hospitalized recently
- Who is Kazuo Koike?
Dai Gaku Manga
Published by: The Osaka Institute of Art
Burning Pen! Screaming Pen! Blue Flame!
by Kazuhiko Shimamoto
http://users.skynet.be/mangaguide/au1729.html
Blog post about the horizontal gutters being wider than the vertical gutters in manga.
I was talking about good and bad paneling examples from One Pound Gospel and S.A.. I can't find the S.A. example, but here's a nice sequence from One Pound Gospel:
Then on the Next Page:
Mr. X talks about Mampu
Hikaru No Go paneling where the "camera" is placed below the board. In this sequence, Akira is playing Go on the internet.
I mention the School of Visual Arts. (Pratt is also good.)
Unimpressive art in an autobiographical comic that made all the critics' top ten lists:
In Japan, a bad run is a circulation of 50,000. In the U.S. a great circulation for manga is 5,000 - even though we've got four times the population.
The Yasha Craig Ape is from Grappler Baki.
Link to AWO's coverage of Lady Snowblood. It's at 37:28 - 57:52 in their show.
Kochikame has been around forever!
What are ikimen?
Bakuman
OP & ED: Theme from Blazing Transfer Student, "Blazing Transfer Student" by Toshihiko Seki.
View Larger
Manga Adaptations Discussion:
- Haruhi Suzumiya
- InuKami
- .hack//XXXX
- Gurren Lagan
- Family Complex has a great description of eye surgery, couched in a very boring regular story. Here's my review.
- Peach Pit was hospitalized recently
- Who is Kazuo Koike?
Dai Gaku Manga
Published by: The Osaka Institute of Art
Burning Pen! Screaming Pen! Blue Flame!
by Kazuhiko Shimamoto
http://users.skynet.be/mangaguide/au1729.html
Blog post about the horizontal gutters being wider than the vertical gutters in manga.
I was talking about good and bad paneling examples from One Pound Gospel and S.A.. I can't find the S.A. example, but here's a nice sequence from One Pound Gospel:
Then on the Next Page:
Mr. X talks about Mampu
Hikaru No Go paneling where the "camera" is placed below the board. In this sequence, Akira is playing Go on the internet.
I mention the School of Visual Arts. (Pratt is also good.)
Unimpressive art in an autobiographical comic that made all the critics' top ten lists:
In Japan, a bad run is a circulation of 50,000. In the U.S. a great circulation for manga is 5,000 - even though we've got four times the population.
The Yasha Craig Ape is from Grappler Baki.
Link to AWO's coverage of Lady Snowblood. It's at 37:28 - 57:52 in their show.
Kochikame has been around forever!
What are ikimen?
Bakuman