Manga-Verse: Origins of Manga

Every manga enthusiast knows the Great Wave. Far fewer know the man who drew it, or that "manga" was a printed word a century before anyone drew a comic book. This is where modern manga came from. Ten mangaka, Edo through Showa. Twenty-one works. More than four hundred pages of woodblock prints and illustrated books, chosen one at a time, all of them public domain. READ THE ORIGINALS Full-bleed pages from the actual books and print series. Katsushika Hokusai's 36 Views of Mount Fuji. Utagawa Kuniyoshi's ghost stories. Kitao Shigemasa's scenes of everyday Edo life. And Kawanabe Kyosai, who signed his work "demon of painting" and meant it. WHERE YOUR FAVORITE MONSTERS CAME FROM Oni, yurei, tanuki. Here they are in the prints where they were first drawn, centuries before they reached the page you know them from. SIX EXPANSIONS, FIVE OF THEM INCLUDED Classic Manga's bold halftone. Origami's…