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Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga NONE, Collector's Edition
Author(s): Frederik L. Schodt (Author)
- Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
- Publication Date: 7 Feb. 2012
- Edition: NONE, Collector's
- Language: English
- Print length: 360 pages
- ISBN-10: 1933330953
- ISBN-13: 9781933330952
Book Description
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.
Frederik L. Schodt, based in San Francisco, is fluent in Japanese and author of many works about Japan.
Editorial Reviews
Review
The best introduction to manga I have ever read.”
Will Eisner, creator of The Spirit
The informally encyclopedic
Dreamland Japanthe result of Schodt’s 16-plus years of studying manganot 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…”
Panoramic”
“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 fansnot 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.”
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“The best introduction to manga I have ever read.”
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“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…”
―
“Panoramic”
―
“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.”
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About the Author
http://www.jai2.com/Welcome.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik_Schodt
