Manga

De er unge, talentfulde og selvbevidste. Kvindelige manga-tegnere fra Tyskland har succes: forlagene konstaterer stigende oplag, fangruppen vokser. Et strejftog gennem den tyske mangascene viser, hvor mangfoldig genren er.læs mere ...

In December 2009 in Kyoto, the first international conference of the International Manga Research Center of Seika University took place. A key demand: to finally apply the interculturality of comics to comic studies as well.læs mere ...

15 years ago, no one would have seriously thought that Japanese comics would one day spread all over the globe. Today, they are part of young people’s daily lives to such an extent that their visual language is even used in German sex education: a manga story entitled “First Love, Safety First!” promotes the use of condoms, and the Ministry of the Interior of the Bundesland North Rhine-Westphalia makes use of the manga style to educate about right-wing extremism.læs mere ...

The manga boom began in the 1990’s with the breakthrough success of a few shojo and shonen manga series. Since then, a major market has developed in which about 80 percent of sales in the trade consists of manga. German fans quickly began to draw manga themselves, bringing about the emergence of an entirely new scene that had nothing in common with the traditional comics scene.læs mere ...

Dirk Schwieger opholdt sig i 2006 et år i Tokyo og berettede om det på sin interaktive comic-blog ”Moresukine”. Nu er optegnelserne udkommet som bog. Det er tid til en samtale mellem kolleger om baggrunden for dette projekt – Titus Ackermann, der selv er tegner og ophavsmand til tegneseriemagasinet ”Moga Mobo”, stillede spørgsmålene.læs mere ...