What's the difference between a manga and a comic?

Every manga is a comic.
Comics that are not from Japan are not manga.

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>>146720215
Fuck off, cunt. We had enough of your shit on /co/

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Made you a graph, OP.

>>146720215
Comics have colour where as manga are black and white. That's all there is to it.

>>146720482
Sweet. Got it. Thanks man :)

>>146720547
Don't use emoticons on /a/.

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This is now a Nagai thread!

>>146720288
This is out of curiosity because of that dude spamming devilman in /co/

>>146720538
Wrong on both accounts.

>>146720558
oh sorry

>>146720538
That can't be right or Cerebus would be considered a manga

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Comics are inferior to manga.

>>146720215
In Japanese "manga" means comic, there isn't a regional connotation.
In English "manga" is an exclusively Japanese subset of "comic".

It's the same thing with "anime", in Japanese it just means generic cartoon, but in English it means a cartoon specifically from Japan.

This is an English imageboard so we use the English language standards.

>>146720593
And you can still continue to fuck off.

>>146720482
Thanks doc

>>146720288
>/co/
what a sad board. cartoons are so shit that they have to resort to dumping manga.

>>146721779
Wew lad,lad wew.

>>146720215
A comic is a manga but a manga is a comic

>>146723271
>cartoons are so shit
Tom & Jerry > 90% of anime and manga

>>146724777
back to your /co/ntainment board

>>146724777
If that was the case, why don't you see anyone posting /co/ shit on /a/?

Because nobody wants that shit.

But /co/fags can't help themselves by pleasuring themselves with superior manga

>>146724777
But Tom & Jerry is an anime, the official Fruits Basket subtitles said so.

>>146724777
Nice trips, Anno

American comics are some of the worst shit I've read in my life.

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>>146725012

>>146720558
:^)

>>146725158
Seriously sometimes I wonder what the fuck did the comic artist think back in 90s.

>>146720288
>/co/
You're the one who needs to fuck off

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>>146720215
Suggested reading.

>>146720538
Two words
Scott Pilgrim

>>146721576
i know this is bait but, it's an equal scale. no comic has ever come close to making me have to use my brain as much as akira or ghost in the shell, yet there's very few comics as cancerous as some of even incredibly popular manga.

>>146720558
:D

>>146724777
True

>>146720215
Marvel is a western company. EVERYTHING that they publish is /co/.

If you're asking about what's characteristic for Japanese comics (manga) compared to western comics (American, French-Belgian), there are some important points.
First of all there are fewer panels, usually 6 panels max. There are many pages often with just two or three panels in manga.
Manga comes out weekly or monthly. French-Belgian comics sometimes comes out yearly or even with years between. This also lower the quality of most manga.
The quantity is much higher in Japan, and the quality is usually lower. You have to sift through a lot of manga to find something good.
Often manga has just a setup with characters and setting, but no actual plan. The mangaka just goes along according to for example popularity polls.
Then of course there is things like characters having little characteristics and same face, but different hair and hair color to distinguish them. Also usually manga is less realistic than western comics.

In terms of aesthetics: storytelling.

>>146724777
Good Tom & Jerry episodes were 60 years ago. He's talking in present tense. You have to compare them with the stuffs from the 60s. Tezuka's manga are still better.