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"There is no guarantee that the future of comics will be Japanese, but manga keeps a good head start at the head of the market"

Selection N°101 Mangasia by Paul Gravett

Small pause in our series of files to discover comics and discover comics (while waiting to discover manga of course) to tackle a work which will be impossible to circumvent in June 2018. A large exhibition of 281 original drawings and 200 books, plus facsimiles and objects related to this industry will be in Nantes from June to next September. reading and leafing through the 300 pages of this impressive exhibition catalogue, published last October, took me some time to be able to tell you about it, and today I offer you an overview of this very rich book.

The author Paul Gravett explores the history and major themes of Asian comics in , China & Korea, the three main historical producers, but also Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and North Korea. This work of curation is doubled by comments on the situation of the internal country or in relation to its neighbours which make it possible to better understand how the medium evolved ( distractions, official propaganda, act of resistance, questioning on society, porosity of cultures and influences...) It is interested in the definition of the word manga, what it encompasses and what could have been the first works qualified as such or of its influences in the various countries. And finally to the profession and what it implies. Also rich in its iconography, it is above all a picture book composed of many unpublished material. Of course, for the enlightened amateurs and the great readers of manga, several passages will be familiar to them on the Japanese authors who made the history of the comic strip, but you will be surprised, like me, in front of the immensity of the stories to which we do not have access.to complete this visual exploration, we will find chronologies and maps as well as selections on the objects around the medium.

The presentation and the articulation around themes may seem a little confusing when reading the book, it should be kept in mind that the book accompanies the exhibition and that it is very interesting to read it in disorder by picking here and there while letting oneself be carried by the images before returning to the text in its continuity. Only book that takes seriously the question of Asian comics outside manga and gives a fascinating light for those who love the genre. In any case, it's been several weeks since I've had enough of looking through it, I can't wait for the exhibition!

Mangasia by Paul Gravett, Off-Collection Edition, 2017

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Images from the album © Paul Gravett/Hors-collectionCover illustration : Kitaro the repellent ©

? BONUS ?Juste below the excerpts of the album, I propose you a selection of favorite manga ⬇️

We can also read Sonny Liew's very good Charlie Chan Hock Chye who presents the history of Singapore through a series of plates, research and covers drawn in the different styles of the cartoonist Charlie Chan Hock Chye (fictional character that allows Sonny Liew to pay homage to several great cartoonists and broaden his subject)

But also, our selection of essential manga:

GTO of Tôru Fujisawa Minetaro Mochizuki's Nausicaä from Wind Valley Ayako of by Kazuo Koike & Kazuo Kamimura Gen d'Hiroshima by Keiji Nakazawa Saburo Ishikawa's Sacred Granny Good night Punpun d'Inio Asano Dragon Ball of Toriyama at Glénat Seraphim: 266,613,336 Wings of and Mamoru Oshi Akira of Wet Moon by Atsushi Kaneko The panorama island of Le Gourmet solitaire by Jirō Taniguchi and Masayuki Kusumi A Life in the Margins of by Osamu Phoenix Tezuka Junji Itõ Spiral 's Kazuo Kamimura Divorce Club Sex & Fury of Bonten Tarô Shigeru Mizuki's NoNoBâ Sunny of Taiyô Matsumoto Chiisakobé of Minetarô Mochizuki

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