I've been reading a lot of stuff recently, both Eastern and Western, and I noticed an interesting thing. Comic books tend to be a LOT busier than manga. Color obviously plays a role in this (not having to color things lets you skip out on background detail, which in turn puts more focus on the character), but text is another thing - comic books are very wordy. Characters sometimes spout entire paragraphs of dialogue, which slows the reading pace down quite a bit. Also, comics often try to cram a lot more frames into every page, most likely because the pages themselves are much larger, but it also makes reading them not as smooth as manga. Whenever I read manga, I feel like my eyes are gliding from page to page effortlessly, while reading comics is more like reading books.
I feel like this larger and more colorful format, while much more impressive visually, actually hurts comics, and that's not even mentioning printing costs.
I've been reading a lot of stuff recently, both Eastern and Western, and I noticed an interesting thing...
Its as if different cultures developed comics over time based on how the audience reads ands buys it. People here don't read it in cheap magazine tankobans they read it on paper that's meant to last more than a day. Not even mentioning the fact that you're ignoring the original language it's in or how often it needs to be updated. This is even more retarded than usual east vs west threads.
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>People here don't read it in cheap magazine tankobans they read it on paper that's meant to last more than a day
I mean, judging by the sales, people here don't read it full stop.
>Not even mentioning the fact that you're ignoring the original language it's in or how often it needs to be updated
Not sure what you mean. I was just wondering if there's something to be learned from manga's faster pace. You really don't notice how quickly time passes when you read it, meanwhile modern comics give us stuff like this. Reading this shit was legitimately uncomfortable.
>this thread AGAIN
Some manga can be very busy and wordy too though.
HxH comes to mind. I remember trying to read Fire Candy and the artwork was way too busy for me to follow. So it's really up to the author
I think it culturally american comics are trying to do more natural flow of conversation instead of getting to the point.
What comic is the picture on the right from?
>People here don't read it
Clearly.
I don't really care about modern manga I prefer to read comics but also coincidentally not all modern comics, my face is of Cat now
i don't think those scenes are really comparable.