Clipped from Article: It was during 2012 that the bande dessinée, a European take on the long-form comic book, took significant steps toward popularity in Japan. This made it the perfect time to host the first International Manga Fest in Tokyo. Following the first keynote event, in which Ōtomo Katsuhiro spoke live with a group of young French artists, Urasawa Naoki took the stage for the second panel discussion. He was joined by the famous team of Benoît Peeters and François Schuiten, the scriptwriter and artist for the collection Les Cités Obscures (published in English as Cities of the Fantastic), which won the grand prize in the Manga Division of the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ Japan Media Art Festival. The conversation was wide-ranging, covering topics from story and technique to the differences between BDs and Japanese manga. Read the Rest of the Article
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