Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga Vol. 1
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- File Type: PDF
- File Size: 26.5 MB
- Book Language: English
- Total Page Count: 146
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Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga Vol. 1
Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga Vol. 1 is a digital manga comic by Koji Aihara and Kentaro Takekuma. This English-language PDF includes an English adaptation by Yuji Oniki and is available as an instant download.
The volume combines illustrated lessons, comic dialogue, fictional accounts, and satirical commentary about manga creation. Its opening material focuses on pen names, artistic style, professional ambition, and the imagined consequences of choosing a name.
This digital edition contains installments originally published in PULP Vol. 5, No. 5 through Vol. 6, No. 5.
Book Overview
Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga Vol. 1 is a comic and manga-focused work by Koji Aihara and Kentaro Takekuma. The English adaptation presents the creators’ story and art in a humorous, deliberately exaggerated format.
The book introduces manga-related ideas through lessons and fictional situations. It considers how a pen name can shape an artist’s public identity and how ambition can influence creative decisions.
What You’ll Discover Inside
- Illustrated lessons about manga and manga artists.
- A discussion of choosing and using a pen name.
- Four comic commandments for pen names.
- Fictional manga confessions about professional identity.
- Satirical ambitions involving manga, anime, merchandising, and public office.
- Installments originally published in PULP.
Why This Book Matters
The volume treats manga as both a creative practice and a subject for comic examination. Its lessons and fictional examples make artistic identity, naming, style, and professional ambition part of the work’s central subject.
For readers of manga and archival comics, this edition preserves an English presentation of installments associated with PULP. It also documents the collaborative production of the English-language release, including adaptation, lettering, design, and editorial roles.
Book Details
| Title | Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga Vol. 1 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Koji Aihara & Kentaro Takekuma |
| Story & Art | Koji Aihara & Kentaro Takekuma |
| English Adaptation | Yuji Oniki |
| Touch-Up Art & Lettering | Susan Daigle Leach |
| Book Design | Izumi Evers |
| Publisher | Vie Communications, Inc. |
| Credited Publisher | Seiji Horibuchi |
| Publication Date | November 2002 |
| Edition | First printing |
| Series | Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga |
| Original Publication | PULP Vol. 5, No. 5 through Vol. 6, No. 5 |
| Format | |
| File Type | |
| File Size | 26.5 MB |
| File Size Bytes | 27822920 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 146 |
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