Differences Between, manga and comic books

I've always wondered about the major differences and preferences of people when it came to comics and manga. I've never actually read a comic to be honest, mostly because just looking at how many issues and alternatives for even one superhero makes my head spin. Western comic books  read from left to right, while in the other hand manga reads from right to left. "Manga" are Japanese comic books. The word literally means "whimsical drawings" in Japanese, while comic books or simply comic.The term comic book arose because the first the first book sold as a comic book reprinted humor comic strips. Manga is different from American comic books in many ways, which is why it is sometimes translated as graphic novels. Comic books in America tend to be colored, sold in thin booklets, and written for a teenage male audience. Manga is almost always black and white, serialized in manga collections before being sold in bound books, and has many different genres appealing to many different audiences. There are romantic manga for adult women, mob dramas for older men, cute fantasy comedies for young girls, and much, much more. Just about everyone in Japan reads manga, and there is something to suit every taste.

Other things worth mentioning is the contrast of art style between japanese manga and western comic books. They are just – different, aren’t they? Japanese manga goes for cuteness style. It is very expressive, both in artistic terms and in expressing human emotions, but it sacrifices realism. Seriously, eyes are bigger than the nose? Eyes bigger than the mouth? Eyes covering half of the face? Not to mention that they don’t look like normal human eyes too. It’s beautiful however, in its own way.

Western comic books devote much of their time to realism and use artistic license sparingly which results in an art that much resembles real life. But it’s not very expressive. You can say that western comic books sacrifices expressiveness for realism.

REFERENCES

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comicbooks
[Draft] By: Richard Jeremy G. Yatco