MANGA Km0

More than 30 years have passed since the arrival of Dragon Ball to the newsstands of our country. It was more than enough time for manga, which was never before popular but that definitely came to stay, to become the main influence of several generations of authors turning it into their natural narrative medium.

In our times, both authors and readers no longer judge works solely by their origin and the concept of manga no longer only covers Japanese works created by Japanese authors for a Japanese audience; it now embraces a much broader spectrum, with hundreds of western authors and readers who have adopted the manga codes as their own.

In this exhibition you will find a sample of some authors trained in our local schools who have made of manga their rallying cry. Thanks to the support of national publishers such as “Planeta” with its “Planeta Manga” initiative, the “Norma Editorial” contest, the commitment to young promises of “LetraBlanka” and so many other small publishers, or even the publishing of the works of foreign authors by Japanese publishing giants such as “Kodansha” and “Shueisha”, have consolidated the union of Eastern and Western comics.

Many terms have been coined in recent years to talk about this phenomenon and its authors, such as “euromanga”, “iberomanga” or “mangañol”. We like to call it Km0 manga or proximity manga.