American comic books mostly concentrate on adventure, especially the adventures of super heroes. Japanese manga magazines, on the other hand, tackle a wide variety of subjects that you'd never expect to be shown in graphic form. The magazine called Young Jump published a manga version of the history of the Ig Nobel Prizes (covered previously at Neatorama). Only excerpts are online, and the text is in Japanese, but you can get a idea of how wacky the story is. The above panel shows one of the developers of the Bow-Lingual, a device that translates a dog's barks, accepting an Ig Nobel prize along with his son dressed as a dog. Link to part one; link to part two.
For the uninitiated, manga is an art form which enables those without artistic skills or writing ability to tell stories in printed form.
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I don't get it. Are they supposed to be Asian or White?
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@ted: Yes. (see my previous post)
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