Prologue: The Historical Origins and Changing Meaning of “Manga” up to 1923

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Preface xi
5. A Note on Images xv
6. Introduction 1
7. Prologue: The Historical Origins and Changing Meaning of “Manga” up to 1923 13
8. 1 “Popular in Society at Large”: The First Talking Manga 25
9. 2 “Listen Vunce!”: The Audiovisual Revolution in Graphic Narrative 54
10. 3 When Krazy Kat Spoke Japanese: Japan’s Massive Importation of Foreign Audiovisual Comics 96
11. 4 From Asō Yutaka to Tezuka Osamu: How Manga Made in Japan Adopted the Form of Audiovisual Comics 139
12. Epilogue: The Myth of Manga as a “Traditional Mode of Expression” 180
13. Appendix: List of Foreign Comics in Japan, 1908–1945 193
14. Brief Chronology 201
15. Acknowledgments 203
16. Notes 205
17. Bibliography 235
18. Index 243