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Japanese
Manga Comic Symposium to be Held at Pomona College
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Japanese manga comics have swept the country. Manga is one
of the fastest growing segments of the American publishing
industry, and over the course of two years, sales soared
from $60 million to $110-140 million. While manga used to
occupy a few bottom shelves at the neighborhood Borders or
Barnes & Noble, it now easily takes up a full wall—with
shôjo girl, shônen boys, supernatural, and even horror manga
all in full translation. Manga, the hottest trend in comic
books in America, is related to Japanese anime with its
stylized big-eyed characters.
On Friday, February 17, the Pacific Basin Institute at
Pomona College will host the symposium “Marauding Rabbits,
Starry-Eyed Girls, Battling Boys, ‘Ordinary Ladies’:
Japanese (American) Manga in Review.” This event is open to
the public and free of charge.
 Stanley Sakai, the creator of the long running and highly
successful samurai rabbit Usagi Yojimbo series, will provide
a step-by-step demonstration of how a manga story is written
and drawn. Also featured is Frederik L. Schodt, the premier
scholar on manga in English and author of the seminal, Manga!
Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics (1983) and Dreamland
Japan: Writings on Modern Manga (1986). Kinko Ito, professor
of sociology at the University of Arkansas, will speak to
the genre of ladies comics, its emergence in the 1980s to
its newest trends in the 21st century. Matthew A. Thorn,
associate professor at Japan’s only department of comic art
at Kyoto Seika University and an expert on girls’ shôjo
manga, will round out the program.
The symposium will be held from 1:30-5:30 p.m. in Hahn 101
(420 N. Harvard Avenue, Claremont) and is organized by the
Department of Asian Languages & Literatures; co-sponsored
with Pacific Basin Institute. For further information
contact Lynne Miyake at (909) 621-8931.
The Pacific Basin Institute is dedicated to expanding and
enhancing comity and shared knowledge among the nations and
cultures that face the Pacific. A valued study, media
production and research center for the distinguished, PBI
also offers books, film series and lecture programs to a
general as well as academic audience. Since the turn of the
past century Pomona College has been a leader in Asian
Studies among American universities. Visit Pomona College on
the web at www.pomona.edu
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Marauding Rabbits, Starry-Eyed Girls, Battling Boys,
'Ordinary Ladies': Japanese (American) Manga in Review
Friday, February 17, 2006
1:30 – 5:30 p.m. Hahn 101, Pomona College
Schedule
1:30 Introductory Remarks: Lynne K. Miyake (Department of
Asian Languages & Literatures, Pomona College)
1:40 Introduction: Mage Macchione (Classics Major, Pomona
College)
1:45-2:30 Frederik L. Schodt (Conference Interpreter,
Translator, and Freelance Writer)
“The Manga Way”
2:30 Introduction: Tom Bayles (Japanese Major, Pomona
College)
2:35-3:10 Stan Sakai (Manga Artist and National Cartoonists
Society Award Winner)
“Creating Comics, Making Manga”
3:10 Introduction: Chen Jiang (International Relations
Major, Pomona College)
3:15-3:50 Kinko Ito (Department of Sociology, Anthropology,
& Gerontology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
“Japanese Ladies' Comics: Now and Then”
3:50 Introduction: Julia Fields (Asian Studies Major, Pomona
College)
3:55-4:30 Matthew A. Thorn (School of Cartoon & Comic Art,
Kyoto Seika University)
4:30-5:30 Open Discussion
5:30 Buffet Dinner (hall outside Hahn 101)
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