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Paul Gravett: Article - Gekiga: The Flipside Of Manga

200610161230Paul Gravett on gekiga:

During the traumatic recovery after World War II, Japanese children escaped into Osamu Tezuka’s Disney-inspired manga as the perfect pre-TV entertainment. Manga books were pricey, so people took to hiring them from pay libraries. It was through demands from older customers that a very different strain of much darker, more socially engaged comics developed, inspired by new realist cinema and literature.

[Link via Journalista]

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2 Responses to “Paul Gravett: Article - Gekiga: The Flipside Of Manga”

  1. Anime Planet » Paul Gravett: Article - Gekiga: The Flipside Of Manga Says:
    10/16/06 at 2:10 pm

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  2. Pete Bangs Says:
    10/17/06 at 4:33 am

    Is there anything this man doesn’t know in the world of comics? Makes me proud to be British.

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