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Comics and the Origins of Manga challenges the conventional wisdom that manga evolved from traditional Japanese art, and reveals how Japanese cartoonists in the 1920s and 1930s instead developed modern manga out of translations of foreign comic strips like Bringing Up Father, Happy Hooligan, and Felix the Cat.
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Comics and the Origins of Manga, Eike Exner
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- Released
- 2021
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- Title
- Comics and the Origins of Manga
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Eike Exner
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 248
- ISBN10
- 1978827229
- ISBN13
- 9781978827226
- Series
- Rating
- 4.55 out of 5
- Description
- Comics and the Origins of Manga challenges the conventional wisdom that manga evolved from traditional Japanese art, and reveals how Japanese cartoonists in the 1920s and 1930s instead developed modern manga out of translations of foreign comic strips like Bringing Up Father, Happy Hooligan, and Felix the Cat.