Forum - View topicManga that get released first as graphic novels volumes akin to albums in Europe esp before 1980?
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Samuknight
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I am reading Tintin right now and have read Asterix the Gaul and Lucky Luke over 4 years prior.And from how these series are formatted as well as other European comics I'm looking into thats not in English, the European market outside Britain seems to release their series in what they call "albums". Basically ever new story gets published as the equivalent of one Tankoban volume instead of compiling a batch of older chapters into a series of single books and the format gets released several times a year if not even annually (or in some longer running series like Asterix, even every few years) rather than the bi-weekly to the monthly schedule thats the norm for Manga. non-British European comics have been doing this since as early as the 1930s (earlier depending on what your definition of an ongoing series is).
So I'm wondering if there's any manga series that is released by a manner similar to the album format? In particular before the 80s prior to the importation of American and other comics into Japan as a niche market that subsequently influenced later mangakas on their stories? For sake of question, I'm asking officially published stuff not dijonshis and other fan-made or amateur stuff published outside of official store chains and markets. Indie stuff so long as they got officially copyrighted by the Japanese government do count as far as ththe context of this question. |
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Alan45
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According to Wikipedia (yeah I know) Tintin was published in newspapers as a serial and Asterik the Gaul and Lucky Luke were both published in magazines before compilation. This would make them akin to US newspaper comics like Prince Valiant, Calvin and Hobbes or Bloom County. I'm fairly sure some of the manga we have received here that is presented in four panel strip format also had initial publication in non comic publications.
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