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214:, targeting the readers who had grown up with his work and were interested in more mature narratives. He wanted to create a forum for manga artists to publish manga with experimental forms that would not be accepted in the commercial manga industry. The title of the magazine should stand for "Comics, Community and Communication". In a statement published in the first issue of the magazine, Tezuka explained: "It is said that now is the golden age of manga. So shouldn't works of outstanding quality be published? Or isn't the real situation one in which many manga artists are being worked to death, while they are forced into submission, servitude and cooperation with the cruel requirements of commercialism?" The magazine is considered to be one of the only non-commercial alternative to weekly manga mazines besides 31: 244:
The magazine stopped being published with the January 1972 issue, published in December 1971. Ín 1973, there was an attempt to re-start the magazine, but only one issue (August 1973) was published, before it was stopped again due to Mushi Production's bankruptcy.
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was particularly influential in amateur manga circles and was a platform for many aspiring manga artists to publish their first professional work. The magazine eventually went bankrupt and its last issue was published in December 1971.
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In the late 1970s and early 1980s, people around the Meikyū critic circle started new minor magazines like mixing manga criticism with innovative manga with a cross-gender appeal. This contributed to a
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The magazine made a conscious effort to have cross-gender appeal. While the founder and most editors were men, the magazine had many regular female contributors such as
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Many manga artists who submitted work to the "Gurakon" amateur section of the magazine went on to become successful manga artists, among them
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was also an attempt of Tezuka's to boost young talent by motivating readers to submit amateur work to the magazine's amateur section
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community in the region. Some of these zines were sponsored by Mushi Production. The founders of the big doujinshi convention
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and was instrumental in giving women space for experimenting with narrative and form outside of the conventional norms of
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The magazine was influential in amateur manga circles also after its disestablishment in 1971. The amateur section
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The first issue was the January 1967 issue, published in December 1966. Osamu Tezuka and his publishing company
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also submitted work to the magazine, but was not published, as editors did not see her submission until 1971.
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The magazine contained manga series and manga short stories as well as commentaries and manga criticism.
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was around twenty to thirty percent female. In 1969, Mushi Production started the monthly magazine
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for this audience. Despite its short life (it was disbanded again in 1970),
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Japanese visual culture : explorations in the world of manga and anime
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had been active in Grand Companion clubs before starting the critic circle
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and experimental works in manga. Seven arcs of Tezuka's famous series
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Adult manga : culture and power in contemporary Japanese society
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Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime
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was kept alive through various zines for amateur manga such as
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Holmberg, Ryan (2022). "The Life and Art of Yamada Murasaki".
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as one of the reasons why he and others started Comiket.
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came to be influential artists in shōjo manga, like the
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is often credited with influencing the development of
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Index


Phoenix
Avant-garde
manga
Osamu Tezuka
Mushi Production
Japan
Japanese
manga
Osamu Tezuka
Mushi Production
Garo
avant-garde
Phoenix
Mushi Production
gekiga
offset printing
josei manga
Shirato Sanpei
Kamui
Phoenix
Shotaro Ishinomori
Cyborg 009
Tokiwa-sō
Jirō Tsunoda
Hideko Mizuno
Fujio Akatsuka
Fujiko Fujio
Leiji Matsumoto
Hisashi Sakaguchi

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