Comics pages make room for manga
I don't know how I feel about this. Don't newspaper comics have limited space as it is? Eh, whatever.
Comics pages make room for manga
I don't know how I feel about this. Don't newspaper comics have limited space as it is? Eh, whatever.
Sounds like the creator of that Non Squeitor comic strip will bitch about this like he bitched about webcomics and Scott Kurtz offering his comic to be in newspapers for free.
Actually, they do. I'm looking at the Peanuts comic in my local newspaper and they shrunk it down to a third of its size.
I can't imagine how something a detailed as manga is going to look in newspaper. Especially now that they are colorized
Id prefer it if it was real manga not amerimanga but whatever good way to spread the knoladge about manga
He's right. "In a few years, everyone will know about manga".
Only idiots wouldn't recognize this; even after twenty years of coverage for Anime, the word/concept has just recently begun to diffuse into the minds of Hollywood producers, and only because traditional movies are failing to fill their pockets.
Not that I approve of what they're (MTV, in this case) currently doing, especially ripping off Aeon Flux and trying to use "sex-appeal" to attract testasterone driven males! Pfeaugh! Anime/Manga is good because the stories are good…and the stories are, generally, not done well by amerimanga artists. It's amateurish animitation at best.
Stuart Levy, so that's the guy from the interviews on the GTO DVDs. His Japanese kicks ass…
cool manga in newspapers bad side i hate comic strips i hope they are a page though i still want them to be released in a gn format.
A "full-sized" manga like a WJ series could not syndicate effectively in a newspaper.
20 pages/weekly chapter means about 2 to 3 (a bit under 3) pages per day in a newspaper. Which would likely mean crushing the art down badly, and nonsensical ending scenes (why not take a random 3-page snippet from OP and see if it ends somewhere logical)
A monthly series might work, but still, the differences in art style (namely more vertical space to work with– a comic in the paper's about as wide as a Viz GN page, but one-third the height) would make a poor fit.
cool manga in newspapers bad side i hate comic strips i hope they are a page though i still want them to be released in a gn format.
Actually, this may turn out to be a good thing come to think of it. It might require newspapers to start making more room for comic strips if this has enough popularity. Although, I am not fond at all that American 'styled' comic strips will probably get bumped for this just because of the popularity of Japanese 'styled' comic strips. (goodness knows how difficult it is to get a strip into the paper) Also:
"Intelligencer begin carrying a manga strip called Peach Fuzz in their Sunday comic sections on Jan. 8. Other newspapers in the USA expected to follow suit with manga strips in the coming year.
They use the word 'strip' every time in the article, and that makes me wonder if they're going to use full pages at all.
Peach Fuzz, by Lindsay Cibos, is about a 9-year-old girl, Amanda, who harbors delusions of becoming a princess. She has a pet ferret, Peach.
Amazing.
Yeah, I'm indifferent to this.
Actually, this may turn out to be a good thing come to think of it. It might require newspapers to start making more room for comic strips if this has enough popularity. Although, I am not fond at all that American 'styled' comic strips will probably get bumped for this just because of the popularity of Japanese 'styled' comic strips. (goodness knows how difficult it is to get a strip into the paper) Also:
They use the word 'strip' every time in the article, and that makes me wonder if they're going to use full pages at all.
So what about it makes it manga anymore?
They're using an American artist and series.
They're not using the format we've come to expect for manga (I'm sure a variety of strip-format manga does exist, but it's not what we've grown accustomed to getting).
It's a new set of comic strips, which are syndicated by a different syndicator, and may have more chibis than usual. >=(
The thing I wonder is if they'll have one of those guide things that Shonen Jump has. The average joe who picks up a newspaper and starts reading it without knowing it's manga would probably think, "what the fuck?"