My brain tends to not make a clear distinction between "comics" and "manga" (when I started getting into the medium a few years back, it was through both Western and Asian comics), so I didn't read Understanding Comics with an eye towards manga-specific bits. Much of what he writes about in there is generally applicable. There is one bit in there where he talks about various types of panel-to-panel transitions (with graphs!) which I think Kate would find particularly interesting.
Re: shojo/shonen, it is true that there is a trend towards shojo techniques in shonen manga; I remember reading an article about it a few years back. (I wish I'd saved a copy, now. Ah, the ephemeral Internet.). I do think that the melding is more extensive in Saiyuki than it is in Bleach, although I am not about to go through all the books and draw up McCloud-esque graphs. CLAMP is also big on the style-mixing; most of their work I can't even tell whether a particular title of theirs is supposed to be shojo or shonen, or what. (Tsubasa is technically shonen, yes? What about xxxHolic?)
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Date: 2005-07-28 03:06 am (UTC)Re: shojo/shonen, it is true that there is a trend towards shojo techniques in shonen manga; I remember reading an article about it a few years back. (I wish I'd saved a copy, now. Ah, the ephemeral Internet.). I do think that the melding is more extensive in Saiyuki than it is in Bleach, although I am not about to go through all the books and draw up McCloud-esque graphs. CLAMP is also big on the style-mixing; most of their work I can't even tell whether a particular title of theirs is supposed to be shojo or shonen, or what. (Tsubasa is technically shonen, yes? What about xxxHolic?)