Comics Global History – Links

Here are some links to blog posts and online articles on various topics relating to the international history of comics:

 

MANGA:

Ryan Holmberg — read all Holmberg’s Comics Journals articles on pre-war manga, early Tezuka, gekiga, Garo, etc… a brilliant comics scholar!

 

Pre-war manga:

Ippei Okamoto
http://helenmccarthy.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/the-attraction-of-ippei-okamoto/

Rakuten Kitazawa

http://comicsforum.org/2014/06/14/manga-studies-2-manga-history-shimizu-isao-and-miyamoto-hirohito-on-japans-first-modern-manga-artist-kitazawa-rakuten-by-ronald-stewart/

Noboru Oshiro
http://futoiyatsu.wordpress.com/articles-in-english/the-tomato-red-planet/

Bontaro Shaka
http://helenmccarthy.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/unknown-in-english-6-bontaro-shaka/

Katsuji Matsumoto

http://www.tcj.com/the-mysterious-clover-matsumoto-katsuji-douglas-fairbanks-and-the-reformed-modern-girl/

 

50s mangaa,  gekiga and Garo:

Matsuhito Matsumoto:

http://www.tcj.com/proto-gekiga-matsu/moto-masahikos-komaga

 

Yoshiaharu Tsuge:

https://www.academia.edu/8403048/FETUSES_IN_THE_SEWER_A_comparative_study_of_classic_1960s_manga_by_Tatsumi_Yoshihiro_and_Tsuge_Yoshiharu

http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2012/01/the-incident-at-nishibeta-village-a-classic-manga-by-yoshiharu-tsuge-from-the-garo-years/

Yoshiharo Tatsumi:

https://www.academia.edu/8403048/FETUSES_IN_THE_SEWER_A_comparative_study_of_classic_1960s_manga_by_Tatsumi_Yoshihiro_and_Tsuge_Yoshiharu