manga arts

What is "Manga " ? I always don't read comics book , because i felt that comics are a fiction story .I couldn't differentiate what's anime and what's manga comic books, until my friend told me about it , manga is a comic book , but anime is a video , where those character are able to move , just like movie , but in cartoon character . Few days ago , my friend introduced to me a manga comic book , I got pretty interested , so i decide dot look into information about manga .

In Japanese, the word manga is the word given to any comic created in Japan. The word has recently acquired the same meaning in English. Manga has become more and more popular over the years, forming an important part of Japanese culture.

Manga are usually written by mangaka , what's mangaka ? Mangaka is a author of the manga .

The first manga can be traced back during 17th and 18th century , those manga are written by the first artist who create manga , name "Hokusai".

One of his many works, Shin Takarajima (New Treasure Island), published in 1947, was an important influence on the manga that we have today in that it was published in a form known as akahon or "red book", a type of cheaply bound comic book, which got its name from the red ink used on the cover. Osamu created longer manga works, reaching 180 pages, matching the length of those that are published in tankobon today. His name was Tezuka Osamu (November 3, 1928 – February 9, 1989) and he has often been considered the "Walt Disney of Japan" or the God of Manga. At the time, akahon were used for the relatively little material that was published for children's entertainment, but with Tezuka Osamu's release, many more akahon were created and sold. The introduction of these short manga stories were mainly the result of the Meiji era's (1868-1912) effort to encourage literacy within Japan. One of Osamu's better-known works is Tetsuwan Atom, better known as Astro Boy, and is still popular today. At that time, magazines would have small cartoons - around fifteen pages in length - that were aimed at both young boys and girls. In the mid 1900s came one man who was a vital part to the process of forming the modern style of manga.

Manga first reached something like its present form in the late nineteenth century.

Some well-known and popular mangaka today include CLAMP, a group of 4 women responsible for writing works such as Cardcaptor Sakura and Chobits; Rumiko Takashi, who wrote Inuyasha; and Akira Toriyama with his Dragonball series. Gekiga were released in Japanese through lending libraries, where works that might have been considered offensive, or in some cases experimental, were tolerated.Today, there are more than 3,000 professional manga artists in Japan, many of whom make their living as assistants to more famous mangaka. This was the term that was given to more serious manga, which were dawn in a more realistic style than manga. Approximately 300 of these professionals are able to make an above average salary from their manga alone .Around the 1960s, gekiga, dramatic pictures, appeared. Today the amount of gekiga has significantly reduced since the 1960s and '70s.

These are the information i found out about the manga . .