I Won a Prize!
The Loot!
So on a whim I signed up for Darkhorse's Manga Month giveaway. Nobody actually wins these online raffles! Well I won something, haha. So thanks Dark Horse for some free manga. Not only that, a special part of the prize is a copy of Berserk, autographed by Kentaro Miura! Also included is Dark Horse's 20 Years of Manga Mug, and copies of Blade of the Immortal: Blood of a Thousand, Gantz #1, and Eden: It's an Endless World! #1. These all look awesome and might make me want to read more manga.
Curse your devious marketing ploys!
They didn't notify me ahead of time, so I got home to this box from Dark Horse sitting on my porch. The labels identified it as containing 50 copies of the Dark Horse Spring catalog. It was sent to my name, so I thought maybe for some reason they decided I'd be a good recipient for catalogs, haha. I had totally forgotten about the contest.
I was definitely pleasantly surprised!
East Meets West: Anime and Manga of American Superheroes
I'm Lovin It!
There's more to an art form than the medium itself. Some subject matter lends itself better to a particular style. I'm sure you could do a landscape of a spring meadow with a sculpture, but surely an impressionist watercolor is better suited. That's a bit of a stretch, as different painting styles really can't be segregated that way, and there's an exception to every rule. In the plastic arts (wikipedia) this may not be so clear cut. Even in literature, it becomes difficult to make divisions along the lines of content being paired with style.
Serialized illustrated work seems to have taken an interesting evolutionary path. Compare the American comic book and Japanese Manga industries. While there are standouts, the American comic book is often about a costumed super hero. Sometimes there are secret identities, but more recently they have taken a back seat to the main course: heroes vs. villains. Crazy fights in worldy and other places with amazing powers. All of this done in beautifully drawn and colored artwork. These are amazing to behold.
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