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

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

Horbinski, Andrea

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Literary CriticismGeneral SociologyJapanese History

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 0520403991
ISBN13: 9780520403994
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Oct 28 2025
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

2026 Eisner Award Award Winner--Best Academic/Scholarly Work

A comprehensive English-language history of a beloved medium, Manga's First Century tells the story of the artists and fans who built a cultural juggernaut.

Manga is the world's most popular style of comics. How did manga and anime--moving manga--become ubiquitous? Manga's First Century delves into the history and finds surprising answers.

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 (dōjinshi) 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.

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