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Manga Wallpapers

Posted by admin on November 19, 2008

One of the biggest comic books in Japanese history are manga comics. You have read about them and seen them in cartoon animation adaptation. Now you can have them on your PC desktop wallpaper. Manga wallpapers are currently the leading animated wallpapers that everybody is downloading. In Japan you will find that Manga comics are the in thing and people of different ages and sizes are reading them. It has received an international cult following that has everybody looking for more manga products. These wallpapers make an excellent addition to your already existing collection of anime wallpapers.

Manga wallpapers are also three or two dimensional and look good on your desktop no matter the character. Manga comics can be dated back to the Second World War; however nobody is sure if they had been created before that. The comic brings in a variety of action-adventure, romance, sports and games, historical drama, comedy, science fiction and fantasy, mystery, horror, sexuality, and business and commerce, among others.

Many people like the Manga wallpapers because they get to put up their favorite manga comic book character such as Naruto, Kakashi, Sasuke and Sakura. You get to also put up the babes of manga comics as well as the different character of Manga comics.

You can always download these wallpapers from various websites online. They are often free and are usually found if you Google the word Manga. You will like the colors they portray and the vibrant look that comes with manga comics. These wallpapers also showcase Japanese art and many characters from the thousand of manga comics that are a big hit in the US nowadays. Try these wallpapers and enjoy a look through some of the history of Japan and how it has changed.

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How to Draw Basic Manga 2

Posted by admin on October 11, 2008

This “How to Draw Basic Manga” series was made so most of you manga enthusiasts can learn to draw by watching the whole process being done on video. It takes practice. As every manga artist earned his/her success by having his/her unique styles of drawing, all of us should also strive to come up with our own manga style. God bless manga and YouTube!

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How to Draw Basic Manga 1

Posted by admin on October 11, 2008

This “How to Draw Basic Manga” series was made so most of you manga enthusiasts can learn to draw by watching the whole process being done on video. It takes practice. As every manga artist earned his/her success by having his/her unique styles of drawing, all of us should also strive to come up with our own manga style. God bless manga and YouTube!

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Manga And Anime Art Exhibition

Posted by admin on August 18, 2008

The Napa Valley Museum’s new exhibition: Manga and Anime: An Exhibition of Popular Cartoon Art  is now showing. Co-sponsored by the Nichi Bei Times newspaper of San Francisco, the exhibition includes examples of Manga art from the newspaper’s recent Manga Art Contests, as well as art from the judges of those contests

The “Manga and Anime” exhibition at the Napa Valley Museum provides a snapshot of the current Manga and Anime scene. Viewers will see gifted amateur and professional art work, learn about the high points of Manga history, and gain some insight into the cross-cultural phenomenon that is Manga

The exhibitons runs from August 15th If you’d like more information visit the Napa Valley Museum website.

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Manga Novel For World Of Warcraft

Posted by admin on August 17, 2008

With the success of the bestelling Warcraft: The Sunwell Triology comes a new manga novel set in the Warcraft Universe.

Warcraft: Legends is a series of stories featuring both new and familiar heroes that will well and truly keep you entertained as these manga writers and artists allow us to travel through different stories with them.

Some of what you will find:

The Journey: The arrival of a group of adventurers with promises of gold and excitement will disrupt a simple farmer’s life in ways unimaginable as he takes a nightmarish ride into Scourge-ridden Andorhal.

Trag Highmountain, the courageous Tauren who first made an appearance in Warcraft: Shadows of Ice, finds himself reborn…as one of the Undead.

If you’re looking for some World Of Warcraft Manga then this book may be for you: Warcraft: Legends

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Add Manga Drawings To Online Stories

Posted by admin on August 12, 2008

With just a quick search of the internet nowadays you’ll see that with each passing day more and more people the world over, from young adults to the older generation are submitting their own anime/manga story somewhere online. Whether it’s fanfiction based on their favourite character or their own original story, it stands to reason that some of these novice and sometimes professional writers would also like some illustrators.

So if you write your own anime/manga stories and want to add some images or if you’re interested in illustrating a favourite story you’ve just read online, then now is the time to get into drawing your own manga characters. With new additions everyday there is bound to be someone out there that would be interested in your illustrated additions to their stories or reading and viewing your own creations.

By taking a little time to look around at places like the Fanfiction Archive or Fanfiction.Net and I’m sure it won’t be long before you find someone interested in your manga drawing

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Will Drawing Manga Improve Literacy?

Posted by admin on August 11, 2008

While for many, drawing Manga may just be a favourite hobby it seems that Manga artists are becoming even more in demand. I was reading Daily Yomiuri Online the other day and in an article� they were discussing the benefits of Manga to help improve the literacy levels of today’s youth.

With the growing concern over flagging book sales, particularly within the younger age groups, publishers are now actively seeking manga artists to illustrate the covers of novels. These in turn are then being sold at convenience stores.

“We thought that maybe we could get people to read well-known works perceived as tough reads by turning them into manga and selling them at convenience stores,” East Press’ Kosuke Maruo said.

Perhaps now manga will grace the covers of many popular and main-stream novels. You can read more about this here

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