PW Comics Week - 11/15/2005
Publisher's Weekly Comics Newsletter (11/15/2005)
DMP Manga Mixes Things Up
By Kai-Ming Cha -- 11/15/2005
DMP talks about how they are trying to expand into new areas with their products and genres of manga. I still can't help to shed a little tear when I see Worst mentioned, but hey, at least it is still getting mentioned in pub articles.
Literary Manhwa from Korea
By Kai-Ming Cha -- 11/15/2005
This is the first time I've heard of Buja's Diary or another company putting out manwha, but I must say that the premise of the book sounds very interesting. Much more interesting than most of the manwha I've read from the the more prominent publishers.
The stories in Buja's Diary document the emotional lives of Koreans in stories set in the countryside and in the cities. In his gentle, emotional narratives, O creates the image of a compromised landscape. In one story, a boy witnesses his mother sell sexual favors to a local farmer in order to help her impoverished family survive. In another story, a man remembers his father, who was taken by the Communists, and then witnesses his son being branded as one. Still another revisits the 1980 Kwanju uprising when a town demonstration was met by the South Korean military.
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O's vignettes were written from the late 1980s to the early 1990s, hailing back to a time when Japanese comics were considered contraband. O's work reflects little if any of the current prevalent Japanese manga visual style. The opening story is drawn in black and white wash, while the closing story, told from the perspective of a young girl, alternates between her childish drawings and O's graphic depictions of the story's actual events.
I'm going to have to find this one.
DMP Manga Mixes Things Up
By Kai-Ming Cha -- 11/15/2005
DMP talks about how they are trying to expand into new areas with their products and genres of manga. I still can't help to shed a little tear when I see Worst mentioned, but hey, at least it is still getting mentioned in pub articles.
Literary Manhwa from Korea
By Kai-Ming Cha -- 11/15/2005
This is the first time I've heard of Buja's Diary or another company putting out manwha, but I must say that the premise of the book sounds very interesting. Much more interesting than most of the manwha I've read from the the more prominent publishers.
The stories in Buja's Diary document the emotional lives of Koreans in stories set in the countryside and in the cities. In his gentle, emotional narratives, O creates the image of a compromised landscape. In one story, a boy witnesses his mother sell sexual favors to a local farmer in order to help her impoverished family survive. In another story, a man remembers his father, who was taken by the Communists, and then witnesses his son being branded as one. Still another revisits the 1980 Kwanju uprising when a town demonstration was met by the South Korean military.
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O's vignettes were written from the late 1980s to the early 1990s, hailing back to a time when Japanese comics were considered contraband. O's work reflects little if any of the current prevalent Japanese manga visual style. The opening story is drawn in black and white wash, while the closing story, told from the perspective of a young girl, alternates between her childish drawings and O's graphic depictions of the story's actual events.
I'm going to have to find this one.