The Incredible-Kien Trung's Blog (^^!): Manga VS Comics

I think you do not fell strange when talking about X-men, Spider man, 1/2 Ranma or Dragon balls books. Half of them are Manga and others are comic so what are differences between manga with comics???

Differences are:

Manga is printed in black and white and comics are popularly printed in full color

Manga is not only usually smaller than traditional comics but also usually printed with digest-size** and half to one third the size of comics

**digest-size = letter size piece of paper is fold in half. The actual dimension of a finished digest-size for publishing is 5.5 x 8.25 inches and this dimension can fluctuate depending on the size of the sheet of paper and the amount of trim

http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/paper/f/digest.htm

Manga books are thick and can be hundred of pages in length. Comic books are normally thinner than manga books and comic books look like the small magazine, can be run about 32 pages

Manga books are frequently apart of an large story so that a complete storyline of manga can run to a thousand of pages. Comic books are often single unified story and collected monthly

Comic books are usually created by a sort of assembly-line fashion that are a writer (story), a pencilier (initial sketch), a inker, a letterer (adds dialog) and a colorist. Manga books are often just only one person who combines all of works above

Manga is usually showed emotion better than comics. If you watch carefully manga and comic, you would see the eye, the hair, specially the clothes of manga are very depth