How to draw and make Manga

Manga begins dominating the Japanese entertainment industry since 1950s. Manga is the Japanese name for Comics. In Japan, Manga is originally printed in Manga Magazines, a magazine that consists of compilations of mangas from different manga artist or mangaka. This magazine has hundreds of pages and about the size of a telephone book. The mangas in the magazines are all serials that will be continued in the next issue. Manga has a very wide genre, including action-adventure, romance, sports and games, historical drama, comedy, science fiction and fantasy, mystery, horror, sexuality, and business and commerce, and a lot more. If a series in the magazine is successful, collected chapters may be republished in paperback books called Tankobon. It will be published under it's own title. These days, when a manga is considered a favorite, it will be made into Anime after, or even during it's run immediately.

The first man or mangaka that was held responsible for the identity and character of today's Manga is Osamu Tezuka. Osamu Tezuka created the distinctive large eyes in manga, which will forever be manga's unique visualization style, inspired by cartoons of the time, like Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse and Bambi. Tezuka- sensei's most success manga is Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atom in Japan). Astro Boy is the basic of all manga and become the inspiration of other mangaka after that. The storytelling, the flow, the big eyes- long leg characters, is all Osamu Tezuka's doing. Since it was Tezuka- sensei that first created this style, therefore it was appropriate that the Japan's entertainment industry called Osamu Tezuka as the God of Manga.

Today, manga is not only a comic book for the Japanese, but it's a powerful entertainment media for the world. Manga generates Anime (Japanese animation) and has become one of the commodities of Japan. Manga is a living proof that, art and comic books CAN feed a country.