Comment on How is anime and manga more popular than comics and western cartoons?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 months agoGo to a comic store and ask for some recommendations that prove this take wildly wrong.
Go to a comic store and ask for some recommendations that prove this take wildly wrong.
Right, I don’t doubt that some might exist. But it’s a minority of what’s available.
Also I doubt any of it is serialized as a TV cartoon show in the same sense that animes are made from mangas. But I’d love to be proven wrong :)
There’s actually quite a lot. Forgive the listacle, but, for example: collider.com/iconic-films-based-off-of-comics/
And that’s part of the image problem. Hollywood decided that “based on a comic” wasn’t a selling point if it’s not about superheroes, where it doesn’t need to be state, so they frequently don’t mention it.
That’s interesting, thanks!
vonbaronhans@midwest.social 2 months ago
I dunno “comics” in the US are still mostly superhero stuff. Once you get into the non-superhero stuff it generally gets referred to as “graphic novels”. Maybe that term is used only to separate it from the superhero image, or it may have to do with syndication and release schedules? I’m not entirely sure.
Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
A graphic novel is a comic in longer form. Something like Persepolis that was released in one volume vs something like Watchmen that was released as normal comic books.