Frederik L. Schodt

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Frederik L. Schodt (born January 22, 1950 ) is an American author, critic and translator. The subject of his specialist books and translations are mangas , Japanese comics.

With his book Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics , the first English-language textbook on Japanese comics, he was instrumental in popularizing manga outside of Japan. The work is considered to be standard literature on the subject and is described by subsequent authors as "groundbreaking and influential" , as the "foundation of western research on manga" . Schodt also worked for a while as a personal translator for the major manga artist Osamu Tezuka , who also wrote the foreword for Manga! Manga! wrote. Since then, Schodt has written other books and specialist articles on manga. He also translated some Japanese novels and manga series into English.

In 2000 he was awarded the Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize for his services , and in 2009 he was also awarded the Order of the Rising Sun , 4th grade. His translation of The Four Immigrants Manga by Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama from 1931 was nominated in 2000 for the "Pen West USA translation Award".

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Reference books
  • Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics (1983)
  • Inside the Robot Kingdom: Japan, Mechatronics, and the Coming Robotopia (1988)
  • America and the Four Japans: Friend, Foe, Model, Mirror (1994)
  • Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga (1996)
  • Native American in the Land of the Shogun: Ranald MacDonald and the Opening of Japan (2003)
  • The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the Manga / Anime Revolution (2007)
  • Professor Risley and the Imperial Japanese Troupe (2012)
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Individual evidence

  1. a b Jaqueline Berndt, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (ed.): Manga's Cultural Crossroads . Routledge, 2013. p. 262.
  2. Toni Johnson-Woods (Ed.): Manga - An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives . Continuum Publishing, 2010. p. 2.
  3. ^ Ronald Steward in Manga's Cultural Crossroads . P. 29.
  4. ^ Paul Gravett: Manga - Sixty Years of Japanese Comics . Egmont Manga and Anime, 2004. pp. 7, 9.
  5. Helen McCarthy: A Brief History of Manga . ILEX, 2014. p. 44.
  6. Fred Patten: Watching Anime, Reading Manga - 25 Years of Essays and Reviews . Stone Bridge Press, 2004. p. 146.
  7. Patten, 2004. p. 40.