Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989, (Hardcover)

<p><i><b>2026 Eisner Award Nominee--Best Academic/Scholarly Work</b></i></p><p><b>A comprehensive English-language history of a beloved medium, </b><i><b>Manga's First Century</b></i><b> tells the story of the artists and fans who built a cultural juggernaut.</b> </p><p>Manga is the world's most popular style of comics. How did manga and anime--"moving manga"--become ubiquitous? <i>Manga's First Century</i> delves into the history and finds surprising answers. </p><p>In fact, manga has always been a global phenomenon. Countering essentialist myths of manga's emergence from the deepest wells of Japanese art, author Andrea Horbinski shows it was born in the early 1900s, a hybrid form that crossed single-panel satirical cartoons popular in Europe and America with the Edo period's artistic legacy. As a medium, manga initially focused on political commentary, expanding to include social satire, children's comics, and proletarian art in the 1920s and 1930s. Manga's evolution into a medium embracing complex, long-form storytelling was likewise driven by creators and fans pushing publishers to accept new, radical expansions in manga's artistic and narrative practices. In the 1970s, innovative creators and fans empowered a new breed of fan-generated comics (<i>d&amp;#333;jinshi</i>) and established robust audiences of adult, female, and queer manga readers, while nurturing generations of amateur and professional creators who continue to enrich and renew manga today.</p>

• Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989, (Hardcover)
• Author: Andrea Horbinski
• ISBN: 9780520403987
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2025-10-28
• Page Count: 448