other references for comic research

These couple of months has been all work and no play for me. I admit I have been too focused with work, and neglecting my research. but I'm back now and make it up by reading numerous research papers. my brain is officially filled with words, sentences and more words. so, here are the pioneer and other comic researcher from all over the world that helped me so much in understanding about manga comics.

Frederik Schodt (source: http://electricantzine.com/ea1-fred.html)

He is the first american to introduce manga in US. He helped by translating manga comics to english and thus, american has access to reading manga comics. his books, specifically these two titles; Manga! Manga! and Dreamland Japan helped to understand more on the diversity of manga comics. he also had been freiends with numerous japan artists such as Osamu Tezuka! how cool is that ey?

Paul Gravett (http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/10998-paul-gravett/)

Paul Gravett is the writer of sixty years of manga comics, which i have been trying to get hold to for many months. (any ideas where to get this book? it wil cost about rm130 in ebay, might know somewhere more cheaper?) he is also an artist and incredible expert on comics.

will update more soon! hope i ll pass this semester! :)

the main reference for the first part of comic research

to study comics, there are some important names that you should know. in our local context is obviously Prof Muliyadi mahamood. Karna Mustakim, my senior had done comic studies on phenomenology of comics in malaysia. hes from Indonesia and I can say he is really passionate about comics. Go karna!

other names to acknowledge are John A lent, Scott Mccloud, Fredrick Schodt, Will Eisner, and etc. Feel free to add more names!

survey on manga influence on local comic scene: lets ask the PERGHians!

The first part of the interview, is to randomly ask comic activists (bole ke consider activists ek?) from PERGH community. dunno what PERGH is? come and have a visit to the website :) I randomly ask these guys on what do they think of the local artists who adapted manga style in their work. there are many other feedbacks that I got from these guys, but the one I documented is consider the important ones lar. the rest were just spams and merepek2 stuffs. haha

general topic to study: comic studies

I have long decided since the first year of my study to do a comic research. In Malaysia, comic studies are not so popular among researcher, probably because our society does not acknowledge its importance and the role it plays in our culture. so Im going to be one of the minority and study the thing I love most! comic rules!

In the comic page above, I talk about how Prof Muliyadi Mahamood had somehow 'jumpstart' the introduction part of my paper. his points on the influence of 'Japonism' ie manga had on local comic scene helped me a lot in understanding how manga first came to Malaysia. I also like the 'tone' prof muliyadi use in his writings, he is not biased towards any side, he just write for the sake of documenting. His book, 'Dunia Kartun' is informative and plus, there are comic strips in every page. How cool is that?

documenting data: Scott Mccloud style!

Having a hard time focusing on a certain topic. sometimes your too ambitious, or sometimes your just plain clueless. Theehee.

Introduction

This blog is the place where I document all my comic research related stuff. It can be any issues, ideas, or data I have discovered throughout my research on this topic. Feel free to drop any suggestions and ideas. :)