... before and during Tezuka’s time, beginning with the twelfth-century scroll painting Chōjū giga (The Animal Scrolls), the oldest surviving work that is frequently discussed through the lens of comics, and its influence on Tezuka. It looks at some of the important figures...

... when some cartoon-friendly periodicals were dying. Not to mention that the increasing indecisiveness of politicians made for uninteresting drawings. These trends had a lot to do with the weakening of Japanese political cartoons, which led to the present state of the profession. chōju giga Japan...