Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History

2023/01/25 by Shawn Gilmore · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Comics and Graphic Narratives #Digital Games and Media #Japanese History and Culture

paper · doi:10.1080/21504857.2023.2167845

openalex publication_date 2023/01/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14

Abstract

Eike Exner’s Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History (2022), as its subtitle implies, sets out to overturn nearly every prior narrative of the interplay between early 20th-century Am...

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