Gekiga 劇画

This is a Club for all who like Gekiga. Gekiga (jap. dramatic pictures) is a japanese comic movement which started in the 50s as a counterpart to the popular Manga for children. The word is credited to Tatsumi Yoshihiro, he first drew comics for children, but then he wanted to create stories for the adult audience, from 1957 on he called his comics not Manga but Gekiga (see video). You can read more here. Over time Gekiga became more popular and began to influence the mainstream (Shounen Manga). In 1967 bigger publishers began to launch magazines for the adult audience - "the comiclike escapism of shounen manga paired with adult content and detailed drawings of Gekiga" - the so-called Seinen Manga replaced more and more Gekiga, as a result Gekiga became less and less common. Only a few artists, like Saitou Takao (Golgo 13), call their works Gekiga nowadays. Tatsumi Yoshihiro and the creation of Gekiga