4 Quotes & Sayings By Frederik L Schodt

Frederik L. Schodt is an independent scholar and author. His research interests include Japanese pop culture, media history, and Japanese comics, and he has contributed articles to over a dozen publications on such topics as the manga/anime manga translator Gengoroh Tagame and his popular comic book series Barefoot Gen . He is also one of the founders of the international comics festival Japan Expo and the publisher of the Japanese comics magazine Manga Action.

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Japan is the first nation in the world to accord 'comic books'--originally a 'humorous' form of entertainment mainly for young people--nearly the same social status as novels and films. Frederik L. Schodt
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Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality. Frederik L. Schodt
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Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either. Frederik L. Schodt