Meanwhile in Japan.

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Meanwhile in Japan.

• Just as the graphic novel was finding a place
  in American bookstores and among the literary
  public, American audiences were discovering the
  rich and varied tradition of manga or playful
  pictures the Japanese form of the comics. Manga
  had expanded rapidly after WWII and as the
  initial audience for manga got older, manga
  stories became more adult and more serious.

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Manga factoids

• By the year 2000 just under 50 percent of
  everything published in Japan was a comic.
• In Japan, comics account for about 30 percent of
  all money made from the sale of printed matter.
• Just under a 100 comics magazines a month are
  regularly published, most running about 500 pages
  or more each issue. This includes 10 weeklies.

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Osamu Tezuka father of Manga

• Out of the ashes of Japan just after WWII the
  Japanese picture story is reinvented by Osamu
  Tezuka who goes on to become the prinicpal figure
  in starting both the industries of manga and
  anime.

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Shojo Manga

• Using representational schema derived from his
  favorite theatre company, an all female troupe,
  Tezuka founds a type of manga especially directed
  towards girls and women.

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• About 40 percent of what is sold in bookstores
  today as a graphic novel is a translation of
  shojo manga. The audience for these is primarily
  teen-age girls and young women.

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Josei Manga

• As girls get older they graduate to josei or
  young womens manga. These feature stories
  about love and career, difficulties in
  establishing a young womans independence,
  together with doses of sensual erotica and
  romance.

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Yaoi Manga

• As the american audience for shojo grows
  older, forms of manga popular in Japan but not
  yet common in the U.S. are finding their way into
  the market. Some publishers are experimenting
  with popular forms of housewives manga such as
  yaoi, or boylove comics which feature love
  stories between boys for women readers.

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Rumiko Takahashi

• The richest manga artist in the world is
  Rumiko Takahashi the author of highly successful
  manga/anime series including Ranma ½, Maison
  Ikkoku, and InuYasha. Her income varies between 4
  to 6 million dollars a year. Her book sales run
  in the hundreds of millions.

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Rumiko Takahashi
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Clamp

• Ageha Ohkawa, Tsubaki Nekoi, Mokona, Satsuki
  Igarashi

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• http//www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2006-06-28/vi
  deo-inside-the-clamp-studio

• Link to Clamp Studio Video

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• More than 92 million tankoubon copies sold as of
  the end of 2006.

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