Helen McCarthy, alongside Frederik L. Schodt and Jonathan Clements, is responsible for some of the very first English-language writing on Japanese manga (comics) and anime (animation). She wrote The Art of Osamu Tezuka, the first book in English on the most acclaimed mangaka (comic illustrator), and with Clements she co-wrote The Anime Encyclopedia, the definitive anime film and TV guide.
McCarthy’s latest book, The Manga Bible, is a comprehensive introduction to manga, not only profiling the key mangaka but also examining the manga industry and the field of manga studies. The book is broadly chronological, and there are also sections on the most popular manga genres. Each chapter is fairly concise, though The Manga Bible lives up to its title and covers manga from every conceivable angle.
Schodt’s book Manga! Manga! first introduced Japanese comics to Western readers, and he translated Toshio Ban’s The Osamu Tezuka Story. Manga Design (revised as 100 Manga Artists), by Amano Masanao and Julius Wiedemann, reprints extracts from significant manga. Recently, manga scholar Eike Exner has written two revisionist histories of the subject, Manga and Comics and the Origins of Manga.
McCarthy’s latest book, The Manga Bible, is a comprehensive introduction to manga, not only profiling the key mangaka but also examining the manga industry and the field of manga studies. The book is broadly chronological, and there are also sections on the most popular manga genres. Each chapter is fairly concise, though The Manga Bible lives up to its title and covers manga from every conceivable angle.
Schodt’s book Manga! Manga! first introduced Japanese comics to Western readers, and he translated Toshio Ban’s The Osamu Tezuka Story. Manga Design (revised as 100 Manga Artists), by Amano Masanao and Julius Wiedemann, reprints extracts from significant manga. Recently, manga scholar Eike Exner has written two revisionist histories of the subject, Manga and Comics and the Origins of Manga.