Themes and Issues in Asian Cartooning: Cute, Cheap, Mad, and Sexy

by John A. Lent

Today, comic art is the favorite reading fare for millions of Asians, and is a government-sanctioned, value-added product, as in the case of Korean and Japanese animation. Yet not much is known about Asian cartooning.
Themes and Issues in Asian Cartooning uses overviews and case studies by scholars to discuss Asian animation, humor magazines, gag cartoons, comic strips, and comic books. The first half of the book looks at contents and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879727799
• ISBN13: 9780879727796
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Popular Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"