From: michaele@nsg.nsg.com.au (Michael Edwards)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Re: The Amazing World of Japanese Comics (Sydney Australia)
Keywords: good!
Date: 31 Aug 92 00:53:33 GMT
Organization: Network Solutions Group / GEC Alsthom, Sydney

In article <1992Aug30.093316.23697@ccsd.uts.EDU.AU> 
axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au writes:
>
> michaele@nagisa.nsg.com.au (Michael Edwards) writes:
>  >There are about twelve display boards with a combination of history and 
>  >types described.  There is a table at each of these boards with plenty of 
>  >manga of the type described.  
>
> There were about 22 displays.  Let's see if I can remember them (as you
> said, there was a LOT of manga there, ..., a drop in the ocean compared
> to a comiket, of course.  One of the displays had photos of a comiket,
> BTW).

OK, OK, OK!  I was to busy reading the manga to remember little details
like that :-)

> 1. Intro -- 4 significant ways in which manga differ from comics,
>   Posters for Morning and Mr. Magazine. On table:  Mangajin (lots).

and Manga, Manga, Manga by the truck loads... [OK 20 copies :-)]

>   were all a week or two old.  NB: there was nothing of questionable
>   content (eg. YJ, BJ) on this display, or anywhere else throughout the
>   exhibition.  In fact, a display dealing with the all-important
>   Ultraviolent manga genre was completely missing!  Still, you can't
>   have everything.

Very rational due to the normal coverage manga gets in the Western World in
fact the dj who introed the report where I heard about this first comments
where about the S&M content of a large proportion of manga.  Not good
publicity whether its true or not.  The report was better...

[BTW You must of missed some there were some of the sex stuff floating
around :-)]

> 3. Tezuka Osamu -- bio, how he pioneered the format, popularity.
<bits deleted>
>   a good incentive for me to buy them.  Anyway, now I know why this guy
>   is so highly regarded.

Me too

> 8. Gag and humor manga -- on table:  Chibi Maruko-chan, Joy (by the
>   guy who does Wing Half in Afternoon), plus Taiho shichau zo 1-2 and
>   AMG! 1-3.  Interestingly, Fujishima's stuff seems to have been
>   selected for the exhibition in early '91, as the AMG flyer only
>   mentions 3 volumes for AMG.  (There were many more titles on
>   the table, but I can't remember them.)

The flyers for this expo where put together January 1991 so are a little
out of date :-)  Did you notice that the headings of the AMG flyer said Oh!
My Goddess even though there on the reproduced covers on the same page had
Ah! My Goddess??

> 11. Historical manga -- something else that was fairly new to me.
>  The display explained the various subclasses of this genre
>   (clinically accurate, accurate + artistic licence, vaguely
>   historically based).  Some of the volumes here were enormous,
>   some came in ornamental boxes.

This stuff was the most interesting [after catching up with AMG 2 &3 :-)]

> There were more displays than listed here, those are just the ones that
> spring to mind.  You could drag volumes away to a comfy chair and sit
> there and read them at your leisure.  Why don't they have this facility
> at our local bookshop!!

Hey I'd be happy if they'd just stop putting the plasic covers on!  [Mind
you if they ordered in more copies of Afternoon than they do at the moment
I'd be even happier!  They seem to sell out within hours of arriving :-(]

> I recommend this exhibition to anyone.  I spent the best part of the
> day there.  However, it leaves Sydney on Sep.4.

Said to be travelling around Australia...

Michael
--
standing by the cig machine who did i see           Michael J. Edwards 
in lurex and terylene she hypnotised me             michaele@nsg.nsg.com.au 
i asked her name and she said it's 
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