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...similar process goes on in the mass-media arts. Comic books, for instance, are not a peripheral affair in Japan as they are in America. Known as manga, they are a gigantic publishing industry and, sociologically, a fascinating one. Seventeen different comic magazines and 30 volumes of manga collections are issued monthly by Tokyo's main publisher, Kodansha. The comic book is as important a dream mechanism in Japan...
That is not an exaggeration. Manga, Japanese comic books, are more adult and more insidious than TV. Unlike the pulpy, stapled American product, manga are well bound and published in paperback size. The drawings are cinematic, displaying heroes and heroines in explicit sexual and military-war adventures. In recent years, manga have grown into a billion-dollar publishing venture. Doraemon, an atomic-powered robot cat, makes Garfield look like something the human dragged in. Created in 1970, Doraemon has now appeared in a 26-volume collection with sales of $50 million. In 1980 Akira Toriyama sold 15 million copies...
...double with bath). Dinner for two at several good restaurants should cost $15 to $20, while the beach cafes will serve a lunch of fried fish, paella, salad and a jug of wine for half that. Farther up the coast are Puerto de Mazarron and La Manga del Mar Menor, which has a new casino and two championship golf courses. In most villages there are summer festivals, many celebrating the lively local folk arts...
...photograph produced in your May 19 issue of Emile Gauguin is a startling contrast to the slim young man, the Tahitian son of Paul Gauguin, whom I sketched in Tahiti upon my return from the Gambier Archipelago in 1929. My book, Manga Reva, The Forgotten Islands, is the story of that six months I spent in the Gambier Archipelago. The drawing is in the collection...
...Vita Manga Est. Last week the menthol drive reached its peak of intensity, proclaimed by full-page ads that touted every gimmick that adman can conceive and machine execute. Philip Morris (Marlboro, Parliament) launched Alpine on a national scale, billed it not only as a long, low-tar, lightly mentholated cigarette with "the longest filter yet," but as one of the few cigarettes since Camel to come in a package with a picture on it (of an Alpine mountain). Brown & Williamson, whose "Thinking Man" Viceroys thoughtlessly slumped 20% in the first quarter, clawed back with two new filters: the mentholated...