Mckee notes

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens. Consider Literary and story talent are not only distinctively different but are unrelated, for stories do not need to be written to be told. The material …

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Ki-Sho-Ten-Ketsu

Ki-Sho-Ten-Ketsu, the structuring principle of manga story telling Hirohiko Araki’s “Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga”

Mangaka as Graphic Novelist

Inio Asano → Mangaka using graphic-novel sensibilitiesTaiyo Matsumoto → Fine-art + literary mangaJiro Taniguchi → European graphic novel rhythm inside manga formChris Ware → Graphic novelist using manga-like pacingAdrian Tomine → Literary minimalism aligned with seinen manga