Frederik L. Schodt 
Dreamland Japan 
Writings on Modern Manga

This landmark book, first published at the height of the manga boom, is offered in a hardcover collector’s edition with a new foreword and afterword. Frederik L. Schodt looks at the classic publications and artists who created modern manga, including the magazines Big Comics and Morning, and artists like Suehiro Maruo and Shigeru Mizuki; an entire chapter is devoted to Osamu Tezuka. The new afterword shows how manga have evolved in the past decade to transform global visual culture.

Frederik L. Schodt, based in San Francisco, is fluent in Japanese and author of many works about Japan.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

Preface to the New Edition

1 Enter the Id

What Are Manga?
Why Read Manga?

2 Modern Manga at the End of the Millennium

What’s in a Word?
The Dojinshi World
Otaku
Are Manga Dangerous?
Freedom of Speech vs. Regulation
Black and White Issues # 1
Black and White Issues #2
Do Manga Have a Future?

COVERS OF MANGA MAGAZINES

3 The Manga Magazine Scene

Coro Coro Comic
Weekly Boys‘ Jump
Nakayoshi
Big Comics
Morning
Take Shobo and Mahjong Manga
Pachinko Manga Magazines
Combat Comic
June
Comic Amour
Yan Mama Comic
Garo

4 Artists and Their Work

Hinako Sugiura
King Terry
Z-Chan (Shingo Iguchi)
Yoshikazu Ebisu
Kazuichi Hanawa
Murasaki Yamada
Suehiro Maruo
Silent Service (Kaiji Kawaguchi)
Akira Narita
Shungicu Uchida
Shigeru Mizuki
Emperor of the Land of the Rising Sun
Criminal Defense Stories
Fancy Dance (Reiko Okano)
Tomoi (Wakuni Akisato)
Naniwa Financiers (Yuji Aoki)
Yoshiharu Tsuge
Banana Fish (Akimi Yoshida)
Milk Morizono
The Way of Manga (Fujiko Fujio*)
Doraemon (Fujiko F Fujio)
King of Editors (Seiki Tsuchida)
A Declaration of Arrogant-ism
AUM Cult Comics

5 Osamu Tezuka: A Tribute to the God of Comics

The Human Dream Factory
Mighty Atom and Astra Boy
The Three Adolfs
Princess Knight and Thkarazuka
Blackjack
Phoenix
Jungle Emperor

6 Beyond Manga

Nausicaa and the Manga-Anime Link
Manga Artist as Film Director
The Manga-Novel Nexus
Information Manga
Manga Artists and Computers

7 Manga in the English-Speaking World

English-Language Manga Publishers
Manga Made in America
Fan Power
Networking
Beyond Fandom

Appendix: Manga in English

References and Recommended Readings

Index

Über den Autor

Frederik L. Schodt is a translator and author of numerous books about Japan, including Manga! Manga!. He often served as ‚God of Manga‘ Osamu Tezuka’s English interpreter. In 2009 he received the The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette from the Japanese government for his contribution to the introduction and promotion of Japanese contemporary popular culture.http://www.jai2.com/Welcome.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik_Schodt