Manga is being constantly misunderstood as one set style. I wrote to thank her for her thought-provoking feedback and offer some sort of response: I was just interested if you shared any of my concerns, as I haven’t read anything but postive comments about manga from you.”

I worry that perhaps manga will suffocate originality in comics the same way that Marvel and DC have for so long. If someone wants to become a comic book artist, surely they should start by teaching themselves how to draw from real life rather than following step-by-step pages in a book. I love creating comics, or ‘sequential art’, as my tutors prefer to refer to it. is also plagued by horrible imitations of the form - why the big eyes?! I get a horrible feeling in my stomach when I think about manga. Pupils that started the course heavily inspired by manga never seem to move very far away from it, it is a constant battle between them and the tutors. It turned out that she was studying illustration and explained further: Any style, whether it be manga or Marvel, can restrict experimentation and originality within an artform.” There is a visual style that prevails throughout.

But, as she put it, “Surely manga is constrained simply by the fact that if you see manga, you know it is manga. She wrote to me that she found it hard to believe my comment that “manga in all their true diversity are comics unconstrained, uncompromised, unleashed.” She admitted that she had not read a huge amount of manga. Recently, I received an interesting enquiry from a woman who has been reading my articles as research for her dissertation investigating the British comics market from the female perspective. Mangaphobia: Don't Make Those Manga Eyes At Me!

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