Who Is the Author of a Comic?

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Comics are often extremely collaborative, many owned by companies, not individuals, so who are the real authors? How do we define author in the case comics? Does Frank Miller or Joh Romita Jr bear the responsibility of visuals in Superman Year One? How did a Gisèle Lagacé comic almost have its cover redrawn and recolored by the printer? What is an auteur, a mangaka, a gensakusha? Why should we, as audience, fans, or professionals, care?

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Sarazanmai Series Review: A Pain in the Shirikodama

Anime

Sarazanmai

One day, Kazuki Yasaka, Toi Kuji, and Enta Jinnai accidentally break the statue of Tokyo’s Asakusa district’s guardian deity. This act awakens the long sleeping prince of the Kappa Kingdom who immediately turns the trio into kappas and assigns the boys a mission. In Asakusa, people have been turning into mysterious zombie-like creatures, and to break the spell, Kazuki, Toi, and Enta, in their kappa forms, must retrieve the transformed person’s shirikodama. Unfortunately, obtaining a shirikodama requires one of the three to reveal a secret of their own.

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