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Where manga comes from
From 1814. Katsushika Hokusai published the Hokusai Manga, books of quick sketches of people, animals and everyday life. “Manga” then meant something like “sketches made as they come”.
1947. Osamu Tezuka’s New Treasure Island (made with Shichima Sakai) borrowed from films: close-ups, sudden angles and actions spread over many panels, so the page moves like a camera.
Kishōtenketsu, the four-part shape of a yonkoma (introduce, develop, turn, bring together), goes back to four-line Chinese poems.
1993. Scott McCloud counted the kinds of cut in comics and found that manga uses “aspect to aspect” — the eye wandering round a place or a mood — far more than Western comics.
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