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The classic text by renowned manga expert in a beautiful new casebound edition, with a new foreword and afterword by the author.
This landmark book, first published at the height of the manga boom, is offered in a hardcover collector's edition with a new foreword and afterword.
Frederik L. Schodt looks at the classic publications and artists who created modern manga, including the magazines Big Comics and Morning, and artists like Suehiro Maruo and Shigeru Mizuki; an entire chapter is devoted to Osamu Tezuka. The new afterword shows how manga have evolved in the past decade to transform global visual culture.
“The best introduction to manga I have ever read.”
—Will Eisner, creator of The Spirit
“The informally encyclopedic Dreamland Japan—the result of Schodt's 16-plus years of studying manga—not only makes it easier to understand the art form but also says a good deal about Japanese culture…this is an authoritative reference of the different categories of manga, popular titles and publishers.”
—Publishers Weekly
“The definitive survey of the Japanese comic book mindscape...”
—Alvin Lu, The San Francisco Bay Guardian
“Panoramic”
—Wired
"Schodt gives readers a sense that manga is a vast ocean in Japan with genres undreamed of in American comics. Dreamland Japan is recommended for all comic fans—not just for the historical information, but because Japan has truly understood that comics are only limited by our imagination."
—Ed Sizemore, MangaWorthReading.com
"No one knows more about this world and conveys it with such warmth and unpretentious insight than Frederik L. Schodt, and the timing of this collector’s edition is ideal: as Schodt notes in his new afterword, manga, Japan, and those of us interested in both are undergoing radical transformations. Luckily, we have this kick-ass book to guide us."
—Roland Kelts, author of Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the US
Frederik L. Schodt is a translator and author of numerous books about Japan, including Manga! Manga!. He often served as "God of Manga" Osamu Tezuka’s English interpreter. In 2009 he received the The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette from the Japanese government for his contribution to the introduction and promotion of Japanese contemporary popular culture.
CONTENTS
Preface to the New Edition
1 Enter the Id
What Are Manga?
Why Read Manga?
2 Modern Manga at the End of the Millennium
What's in a Word?
The Dojinshi World
Otaku
Are Manga Dangerous?
Freedom of Speech vs. Regulation
Black and White Issues # 1
Black and White Issues #2
Do Manga Have a Future?
COVERS OF MANGA MAGAZINES
3 The Manga Magazine Scene
CoroCoro Comic
Weekly Boys' Jump
Nakayoshi
Big Comics
Morning
Take Shobo and Mahjong Manga
Pachinko Manga Magazines
Combat Comic
June
Comic Amour
Yan Mama Comic
Garo
4 Artists and Their Work
Hinako Sugiura
King Terry
Z-Chan (Shingo Iguchi)
Yoshikazu Ebisu
Kazuichi Hanawa
Murasaki Yamada
Suehiro Maruo
Silent Service (Kaiji Kawaguchi)
Akira Narita
Shungicu Uchida
Shigeru Mizuki
Emperor of the Land of the Rising Sun
Criminal Defense Stories
Fancy Dance (Reiko Okano)
Tomoi (Wakuni Akisato)
Naniwa Financiers (Yuji Aoki)
Yoshiharu Tsuge
Banana Fish (Akimi Yoshida)
Milk Morizono
The Way of Manga (Fujiko Fujio*)
Doraemon (Fujiko F Fujio)
King of Editors (Seiki Tsuchida)
A Declaration of Arrogant-ism
AUM Cult Comics
5 Osamu Tezuka: A Tribute to the God of Comics
The Human Dream Factory
Mighty Atom and Astra Boy
The Three Adolfs
Princess Knight and Thkarazuka
Blackjack
Phoenix
Jungle Emperor
6 Beyond Manga
Nausicaa and the Manga-Anime Link
Manga Artist as Film Director
The Manga-Novel Nexus
Information Manga
Manga Artists and Computers
7 Manga in the English-Speaking World
English-Language Manga Publishers
Manga Made in America
Fan Power
Networking
Beyond Fandom
Appendix: Manga in English
References and Recommended Readings
Index