How To Draw Manga

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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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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