Garo (magazine)

Garo (Japaneseガロ) was a Japanese manga magazine, which was founded in 1964 and published monthly. It was characterized above all by its alternative and experimental manga publications.

History

The magazine was founded in July 1964 by Katsuichi Nagai, because the genre of Gekiga, realistic manga for an adult readership, was more successful. The Gekiga illustrator Sanpei Shirato helped Nagai in the founding of the magazine and published there from the first edition of his success work Kamui - the (if Carlsen is Kamui Gai - to published by the same artist under the name Kamui ), which played in feudal Japan and was created socially critical. The magazine was named after a character from the Kamui.

The first issue of Garo appeared in September 1964 in B5 format with 130 pages and cost 130 yen. She had a circulation of 8,000 copies.

Besides Gekiga as Kamui - the Garo is also dedicated to new, young manga illustrators who received no chance of a release of other magazines. For example, Yoshiharu Tsuge, particularly the autobiographical and surreal trains had in his manga. By those very artists the magazine quickly found attention and has been recognized as unique.

The magazine had from the 1960s such an impact that the manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka in 1967 en experimental magazine founded, the COM.

1971 Garo had its highest circulation of 80,000 copies per issue. In the 1980s, the popularity of the magazine, however, declined in the mid- 1980s was the edition number only 5,000. When the founder of the magazine, Katsuichi Nagai, 1996 died, a setting of the magazine seemed closer, which is why some authors switched to other magazines such as AX. The early 2000s, the Garo was finally set.

Former Employees

Alternative Manga COM (manga magazine)
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