What is Manga Drawing?

The word Manga derives from two characters that mean "informal drawing"; its characteristics are: printed in black and white, with exaggerated features or characteristics, simple lines, large eyes.
Japan always has a thousand-year-old tradition in graphic arts, especially painting and writing. Along with the development in Europe and the United States, the influence of the comic also came to Japan, applying the style own to create their own editions of it, although following the western model, like the dialogue balloon around the year 1913.
By 1930 war-themed comics appeared, prelude to World War II. During this war, the occupation troops prohibited the publication of this material.
After the war and before the discouragement of the population by the signing of the unconditional surrender of Japan, people begin to take refuge in entertainment activities to alienate themselves from their reality.
This gives rise to several magazines, such as paid libraries, in which their artists, despite not being well paid, had total creative freedom, creating volumes of about 150 pages. The other magazine, the most important, is the Red Book, a publication of about 200 pages, with red covers, low-quality paper, and black and white printing.

It is in this magazine where Ozamu Tezuka, a medical student and admirer of Walt Disney, with characters with large eyes, simple lines, with a fluidity of History similar to that of the cinema, and the introduction of printed sound effects, publishes “the new island of the Treasure”, which sold at one time about 800,000 copies.
Later he goes to Tokyo, where he publishes what is considered the model of the Japanese manga: Astroboy.
However, given the great diversity of genres and styles, Manga is more used to refer to Japanese comics, regardless of style and theme.