Illustrating Asia: Comics, Humor Magazines, and Picture Books

ISBN 10: 0824824717 / ISBN 13: 9780824824716

Published by University of Hawaii Press November 2001, 2001

About this Item

used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Seller Inventory # 1447219

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Illustrating Asia: Comics, Humor Magazines, and Picture Books
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press November 2001
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0824824717
• ISBN 13: 9780824824716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: VG
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • lit crit

About this title

Synopsis

Illustrations used for story-telling and mirth-making have enlivened Asian walls, scrolls, books, public and private places, and artifacts for millennia. Often playful and humorous, Asian pictorial stories lent conspicuous elements to contemporary comic art, particularly with their use of narrative nuance, humor, satire, and dialogue.

Illustrating Asia is a fascinating book on a subject that is of wide and topical interest. All of the articles consider cartoon and/or comic art in the historical and social setting of seven South, Southeast, and East Asian countries: India, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, China, and Japan. The contributors treat comic and narrative art―including comic books, comic strips, picture books, and humor and fan magazines―in both historical and socio-cultural perspectives, as well as portrayals of ancient Chinese philosophy, gender, and the enemy in cartoons and comics.

Contributors: Laine Berman, John A. Lent, Fusami Ogi, Rei Okamoto, Ronald Provencher, Aruna Rao, Kuiyi Shen, Shimizu Isao, Shu-chu Wei, Yingjin Zhang.