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This began as a kind of bibliography, but I found the list was composed mostly of writings I either disliked or didn't care much about, so I've stripped it down to a few recommendations. Here is the very brief list of the only works published in English that I can enthusiastically recommend—three works by two authors: 1986 Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics. Updated paperback edition. Foreword by TEZUKA Osamu. New York: Kodansha International. The only exhaustive English overview. It's dated, but it remains a must-have—or rather the must-have—for anyone seriously interested in manga. 1996 Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. An excellent follow-up to his earlier primer, and another must-read. 1999 "Dimensions of Desire: Sex, Fantasy, and Fetish in Japanese Comics." In Themes and Issues in Asian Cartooning: Cute, Cheap, Mad and Sexy. John A. Lent, ed. Bowling Green, Ohio: Popular Press. This is the only scholarly article on manga that I really like at all, and is a wonderful contrast to the many scholarly articles that portray manga readers as dupes. I strongly recommend instructors to use this article in their courses. |