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MangaBlog » Blog Archive » Awash in Naruto again? — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:13:31 +0000

[...] Society. Danielle Leigh recommends vols. 1 and 2 of Kieli and has a more nuanced reaction to vol. 1 of Wild Animals at Comics Should Be Good! Leroy Douresseauz reads vol. 1 of Speed Grapher at The Comic Book Bin. [...]

By: Danielle Leigh

Danielle Leigh — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:19:59 +0000

thanks, Pedro for the clarification!

By: Pedro BouÃ§a

Pedro BouÃ§a — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:42:35 +0000

â€œOrangeâ€ is by Benjamim, a continental chinese.

Note also that Hong Kong has got its own comics tradition - and most chinese comics published on the US come from there (like all the one Geoff mentioned). Benjamim and his peers come from a different place.

Best,
Hunter (Pedro BouÃ§a)

By: Danielle Leigh

Danielle Leigh — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:44:36 +0000

Good point, Geoff. I know Tokyopop is putting out some colored Chinese work, the first of which just got solicited and is called "Orange" (I *think* it is Chinese...or maybe its Taiwanese? I need to check on this...

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:49:38 +0000

It is also interesting to me that most of the manhua ( Four Constables, Chinese Hero, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and Storm Riders for example) I have encountered has been colored work, whereas the majority of manga and manwha is black and white. I think this probably contributes to its scarsity because it is so much more expensive ( i think) to publish color comics vs black and white. Since it costs more to publish, the collections are smaller and page count matters. At the same time, I wonder if some of the companies do this deliberately to set themselves apart from the more common manga and manwha.