Manga, Comix and PowerLecture 7: March 19, 2003Production, Text, Audience• Questions of power:– Where locate our analysis?– How evaluate competing claims?–Who / What has the POWER?Maus, Part 1 wins Pulitzer in 1992See http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/graphicnovels/spiegelman.htmlSharon Kinsella, Adult Manga• Book Structure:•Intro• History• Production cycle• National Culture• Amateur / Otaku•Editors / Artists• Intellectual Power(see Adult Manga: Culture & Power in Contemporary Japanese Society by Sharon Kinsella)Speigelman• Paper and pen (and computers)• A page as a paragraph• Rhythm / pacing• Density of information• Doing things "only comix can do"See http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/graphicnovels/spiegelman.htmlTsuge "Screwceremony"• Avant-garde• Oppositional•