From: blissNO@SPAMcalifornia.com   
      
   On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:54:55 +0900,Miles Bader,  wrote   
      
   > "Aje RavenStar"  writes:   
   > > Are there any graphic stories of US origin - whether 'manga'   
   > > style or otherwise -  that have been translated, imported, and had any   
   > > success in Japan, and which ones?  Not offerings from the big dogs like   
   > > Disney, DC, Marvel - we'll assume those, since they have the money and   
   > > marketing to push product at will instead of demand driven - but less   
   > > mainstream things, such as Elfquest.   
   >   
   > Have even the "big dogs" had _any_ success in Japan with comics /   
   > graphic stories (companies like disney have been successful in other   
   > ways)?   
      
       Pre-WW II, major newspaper comics like Bringing Up Father and   
   other American-originated stories had a wide presence.   
      
       This is related in one or more of the books on Japanese graphic   
   story telling and its evolution from the original Japanese religious   
   scroll art.   
               Adult Manga - Sharon Kinsella © 2000 - SFPL* Subtitled   
       Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society   
      
           Manga Manga - SFPL* - Frederick Schodt   
      
           Japanese Dreamland SFPL* - Frederick Schodt   
      
       * SFPL indicates that I dug the book out of the stacks at the   
   San Francisco Public Library.   
      
   > What I find depressing is the way classic well regarded stuff like   
   > Tintin has essentially been turned into a source of bland images on bath   
   > towels in Japan... (and I emphasize _bland_ -- there are lots of great   
   > scenes from Tintin books that I'd personally love to have on a bath   
   > towel, but they never, ever, choose those ones :-( ).   
   >   
   > -Miles   
      
       later   
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