Manga

They’re young, talented and self-assured. Women manga artists from Germany are succeeding: Their publishers note rising circulations, the fan community is growing. A stroll through the German manga scene reveals how diverse this genre is.Les mer ...

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.Les mer ...

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.Les mer ...

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.Les mer ...

I 2006 tilbrakte Dirk Schwieger et år i Tokyo og fortalte om opplevelsene sine i den interaktive tegneseriebloggen "Moresukine". Nå har nedtegningene kommet ut i bokform, og det var tid for en samtale blant kolleger om bakgrunnen for dette prosjektet – Titus Ackermann, selv tegner og skaper av tegneseriemagasinet "Moga Mobo", stilte spørsmålene.Les mer ...