/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.5028629]

What makes something look like manga? Pic related for example, it's fairly standard fantasy subject matter but is still instantly identifiable as "manga." Is it just on account of the line itself or is there more to it?

[Anonymous No.5028643]

Soul

[Anonymous No.5028647]

not positive, but nips have thin and frequently broken outlines versus burger comics with solid thick outlines. nips seem to go for more gray, especially with screentones, while burgers seem to push things more to black.
also it's not in color.

[Anonymous No.5028663]

>>5028629
If you just showed me this I would've assumed it was an early Morbius page.

[Anonymous No.5028670]

looks like a euro strip

[Anonymous No.5028681]

>>5028629
one of the worst example you could get for a looks like manga, the others would be shinchan, sazaesan, maruko and the shit osamu did

[Anonymous No.5028699]

>>5028629
The term manga just means it's from japan, french artist draw sometimes comics that have the same format / art style as manga but arn't.

For instance, nausicaa is a manga but the format is more a european one.

Usagi Yojimbo is an american comic (autor is from the US / japan roots) but is not a manga even tho the format is the same.

Plus, nausicaa is fairly old (and the only manga Myazaki draw ) , you could look at akira the same way imo.

[Anonymous No.5028711]

There are living beings, capable of human speech, that think nausicaa looks western. And even some that think pic related looks like manga.
Please remember this whenever you take advice from /ic/

[Anonymous No.5028724]

>>5028711
>my opinion is always right

[Anonymous No.5028730]

>>5028629
Black and white
Highly detailed background with very simplistic characters
Big eyes
Thats all it takes to have a hit manga

[Anonymous No.5028732]

>>5028711
I personnaly think that colored version of usagi looks like shit.

You can take a look at "Soil", wich is a manga with a very define style, you cannot tell if it's from an american comics or something else

[Anonymous No.5028743]

>>5028711
Funny thing is, why do some of these people think Nausicaa looks western but don't think the same for something like Berserk as well? Sometimes I see Nausicaa being confused with an european comic but the same doesn't seem to happen with Berserk despite being even more influenced by western art styles like Escher and using more black than Miyazaki art.

[Anonymous No.5028772]

>>5028743
?

[Anonymous No.5028779]

>>5028724
Only most of the time.

[Anonymous No.5028799]

>>5028743
berserk doesn’t look western at all
I guess you could think it reminiscent of woodblock prints if you saw a panel with a castle and no people in it, but you’re retarded if you think the characters themselves are in any sense whatsoever not pure manga
the only people who think berserk is “more western” are fags ashamed of liking weeb shit

[Anonymous No.5028840]

>>5028663
funny you say that because the design of nausicaa was influenced by moebius

[Anonymous No.5028845]

It's like Japanese comics are still trying to make Movies using comic pages. While Scott McCloud's book Understanding Comics says that technique is also used in American comics, I have yet to see it actually as I just got into American comics yesterday.

I also discovered that USA mainstream comic industry had other comic genres that aren't Superhero but was actually stomped out of existence because of Government censorship via Comic Codes Authority.

[Anonymous No.5029374]

>>5028845
>government censorship
Boy do I have some news for you, the government had nothing to do with the CCA
That was the publishers/printers choosing to censor themselves before anyone else tries to do it.
If you didn't have the CCA sticker most printers wouldn't print, distributors would ship, and comic shops wouldn't stock you. Most affected series (Eerie, Creepy, etc.) resorted to loopholes like printing in B/W and naming themselves "magazines" but they didn't last long.

Could you imagine what could've been?

[Anonymous No.5029382]

>>5029374
>could have been
if the market was there, someone would have printed and sold them

[Anonymous No.5029395]

>>5028663
>>5028629
I also thought it was Moebius, doesn't look like manga to me.

[Anonymous No.5029401]

>>5029395
It looks more like european comics

[Anonymous No.5029534]

>>5029374
You're acting as if the 80s never happened. Of course, we could have had more.