Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
A Note on Images
Introduction
Prologue: The Historical Origins and Changing Meaning of "Manga" up to 1923
1. "Popular in Society at Large": The First Talking Manga
2. "Listen Vunce!": The Audiovisual Revolution in Graphic Narrative
3. When Krazy Kat Spoke Japanese: Japan's Massive Importation of Foreign Audiovisual Comics
4. From Asō Yutaka to Tezuka Osamu: How Manga Made in Japan Adopted the Form of Audiovisual Comics
Epilogue: The Myth of Manga as a "Traditional Mode of Expression"
Appendix: List of Foreign Comics in Japan, 1908-1945
Brief Chronology
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author