From: blissNO@SPAMcalifornia.com   
      
   On 14 Apr 2007 03:08:28 -0700,"mangaKITTY",  wrote   
      
   > And by domestic I mean american.  I'm not sure if these phrase is   
   > accepted but I heard it used.  I found a few american authors that have   
   > done good work at the sacramento anime con but none that were main   
   > streme and very popular.  How about you?   
   >   
      
       American manga are called "comics" or funny books or better for   
   the adult intended comix and my favorite American comix was the   
   Overland Vegetable Stagecoach.  I don't like mainstream which gives   
   us the fantasies of super power and super villany. Mainstream many   
   years ago gave us work much closer to manga.  Examples that spring   
   to mind at once include the following excellent comics of many years   
   ago which come closer to manga than anything currently being drawn.   
        Dick Tracy with his grotesque villians,   
       Joe Palooka with his usual cast of comedic characters,   
       Terry and the Pirates,   
       Gasoline Alley,   
       Mutt and Jeff   
           But sheer surreality, the Little Hitchiker, Toonerville   
       Trolley nd even before I was around, the Krazy Kat and company.   
       If you go down to the the Sacramento Public Library and   
       search in the stacks you might find the earliest compilations   
       of KK which I read(along with S.J.Perlman and a lot of other   
       stuff) there back in the 1950s while in HS.   
      
       But I am sure we have newsgroups dedicated to those varieties   
   of graphic story telling however this one is about Japanese comics   
   and that is why it is called rec.arts.manga.  We like graphic stories   
   made originally by and for Japanese and maybe those of a few other   
   Asian-Pacific cultures.   
      
       If you want to discuss the American graphic story works please seek   
   out the appropriate group.   
      
       later   
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