*RANT*<P>I went to this comic-convention thingie yesterday here in Aussie-land. I walk in and whats the first, last and most overwhelming thing i see? Manga, Anime, all this shit. No offence to any fans of Anime or Manga but it is really starting to irk me. Everyone is copying Anime & Manga styles, almost everyone is bringing out manga influenced comics. What happened to the uniquenss of comics? The first famous quasi-manga stylist was good 'ol Joe Mad. But now his style has become more his own and less Manga, i really like his newer work.
Then the lads like Chris Bachalo who have this crazy cartoony, vibrant, & highly detailed work. Which is mostly unique from artist to artist and it dosent get half the recognition of all this cruddy manga that is now coming outta the wood work.
Plus most of these rip-offs seem to interpret all those Anime's & Manga's with the shithouse storylines.<P>This reminds me of when Jim Lee was like THE artist for comics and everyone sorta leaned toward his style, with those ridiculously long legs and solemn faces. He made Wolverine tall, I mean c'mon, he's supposed to be short, hairy and unloved. Jim displayed him as some straping (tall) lad.<P>Ugh... ahh i feel better. Rant over.<P>Love me, hate me, flame me then bag me.
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I found JESUS!!!
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Manga, Anime & the gutter
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Micro_chimp
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i agree with that! Theres way too much manga styled shyte. Its getting way to over the top but its not just the manga style wich is getting a heavy work out its the traditional american comic stuff all the heros look the same bar the costumes theyre all over muscley and broody even the storys dont differ much!
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by mean^ween:
<B>*RANT*<P>I went to this comic-convention thingie yesterday here in Aussie-land. I walk in and whats the first, last and most overwhelming thing i see? Manga, Anime, all this shit. No offence to any fans of Anime or Manga but it is really starting to irk me. Everyone is copying Anime & Manga styles, almost everyone is bringing out manga influenced comics. What happened to the uniquenss of comics? The first famous quasi-manga stylist was good 'ol Joe Mad. But now his style has become more his own and less Manga, i really like his newer work.
Then the lads like Chris Bachalo who have this crazy cartoony, vibrant, & highly detailed work. Which is mostly unique from artist to artist and it dosent get half the recognition of all this cruddy manga that is now coming outta the wood work.
Plus most of these rip-offs seem to interpret all those Anime's & Manga's with the shithouse storylines.<P>This reminds me of when Jim Lee was like THE artist for comics and everyone sorta leaned toward his style, with those ridiculously long legs and solemn faces. He made Wolverine tall, I mean c'mon, he's supposed to be short, hairy and unloved. Jim displayed him as some straping (tall) lad.<P>Ugh... ahh i feel better. Rant over.<P>Love me, hate me, flame me then bag me.
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</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Adam Warren came before Joe Mad; and several existing works of manga had long been published in America before Joe Mad even picked up a pencil. Mad's not as innocent as you're painting him to be. He's aping two artists that have worked or still do work for Capcom's design team, Bengus and Akiman. The only psuedo-manga comics that I've seen in publication now is the Dreamwave Production stuff from Image (Dark Minds, WarLands, etc.); anything else is real manga, and there's not that much of it out there. There's hundreds of comics being published these days that do not in any way use manga styles.<P>There's a wide variety of books out there today, manga's just a part of it, and it really isn't spilling over into 'american' art anymore than any othere 'style' of comic.
<B>*RANT*<P>I went to this comic-convention thingie yesterday here in Aussie-land. I walk in and whats the first, last and most overwhelming thing i see? Manga, Anime, all this shit. No offence to any fans of Anime or Manga but it is really starting to irk me. Everyone is copying Anime & Manga styles, almost everyone is bringing out manga influenced comics. What happened to the uniquenss of comics? The first famous quasi-manga stylist was good 'ol Joe Mad. But now his style has become more his own and less Manga, i really like his newer work.
Then the lads like Chris Bachalo who have this crazy cartoony, vibrant, & highly detailed work. Which is mostly unique from artist to artist and it dosent get half the recognition of all this cruddy manga that is now coming outta the wood work.
Plus most of these rip-offs seem to interpret all those Anime's & Manga's with the shithouse storylines.<P>This reminds me of when Jim Lee was like THE artist for comics and everyone sorta leaned toward his style, with those ridiculously long legs and solemn faces. He made Wolverine tall, I mean c'mon, he's supposed to be short, hairy and unloved. Jim displayed him as some straping (tall) lad.<P>Ugh... ahh i feel better. Rant over.<P>Love me, hate me, flame me then bag me.
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</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Adam Warren came before Joe Mad; and several existing works of manga had long been published in America before Joe Mad even picked up a pencil. Mad's not as innocent as you're painting him to be. He's aping two artists that have worked or still do work for Capcom's design team, Bengus and Akiman. The only psuedo-manga comics that I've seen in publication now is the Dreamwave Production stuff from Image (Dark Minds, WarLands, etc.); anything else is real manga, and there's not that much of it out there. There's hundreds of comics being published these days that do not in any way use manga styles.<P>There's a wide variety of books out there today, manga's just a part of it, and it really isn't spilling over into 'american' art anymore than any othere 'style' of comic.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by micro_chimp:
<B>i agree with that! Theres way too much manga styled shyte. Its getting way to over the top but its not just the manga style wich is getting a heavy work out its the traditional american comic stuff all the heros look the same bar the costumes theyre all over muscley and broody even the storys dont differ much!</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>
This is something that has plagued the superhero genre for decades. It's not a recent thing, you're just now recognizing it. Only way you're going to get newer stories and such is by stepping out of the genre and reading something else. Try a crime comic, or a horror comic, or a science-fiction comic. There's a lot of good stuff out there, just pick something up. =)
<B>i agree with that! Theres way too much manga styled shyte. Its getting way to over the top but its not just the manga style wich is getting a heavy work out its the traditional american comic stuff all the heros look the same bar the costumes theyre all over muscley and broody even the storys dont differ much!</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>
This is something that has plagued the superhero genre for decades. It's not a recent thing, you're just now recognizing it. Only way you're going to get newer stories and such is by stepping out of the genre and reading something else. Try a crime comic, or a horror comic, or a science-fiction comic. There's a lot of good stuff out there, just pick something up. =)