languages_spoken_or_written hajime kazu
The history of comics has followed different paths in different cultures . Scholars have posited a pre - history as far back as the Lascaux cave paintings . By the mid - 20th century , comics flourished particularly in the United States , western Europe ( especially in France and Belgium ), and Japan . The history of European comics is often traced to Rodolphe Töpffer ' s cartoon strips of the 1830s , and became popular following the success in the 1930s of strips and books such as " The Adventures of Tintin ". American comics emerged as a mass medium in the early 20th century with the advent of newspaper comic strips ; magazine - style comic books followed in the 1930s , in which the superhero genre became prominent after Superman appeared in 1938 . Histories of ___MASK65___ comics and cartooning ("") propose origins as early as the 12th century . Modern comic strips emerged in Japan in the early 20th century , and the output of comics magazines and books rapidly expanded in the post - World War II era with the popularity of cartoonists such as Osamu Tezuka . had a lowbrow reputation for much of its history , but towards the end of the 20th century began to find greater acceptance with the public and in academia . Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems . With one or two minor exceptions , each sound in the ___MASK65___ language ( strictly , each mora ) is represented by one character ( or one digraph ) in each system . This may be either a vowel such as "" a "" ( hiragana  ); a consonant followed by a vowel such as "" ka "" (  ); or "" n "" (  ), a nasal sonorant which , depending on the context , sounds either like English " m ", " n ", or " ng ", or like the nasal vowels of French . Because the characters of the kana do not represent single consonants ( except in the case of  " n "), the kana are referred to as syllabaries and not alphabets . The term " manga " ( kanji : ; hiragana : ; katakana : or ) in Japan is a word used to refer to both comics and cartooning . " Manga " as a term used outside Japan refers to comics originally published in Japan . In contrast to the hiragana syllabary , which is used for those ___MASK65___ language words and grammatical inflections which kanji does not cover , the katakana syllabary usage is quite similar to italics in English ; specifically , it is used for transcription of foreign language words into ___MASK65___ and the writing of loan words ( collectively " gairaigo "); for emphasis ; to represent onomatopoeia ; for technical and scientific terms ; and for names of plants , animals , minerals , and often ___MASK65___ companies . Discourse ( from ___MASK18___ " discursus ", " running to and from ") denotes written and spoken communications such as : Hajime Kazu (  ) is a shnen manga artist most famous for her work Mind Assassin . The creator mainly writes and draws action manga . Her latest work was in the magazine Jump SQ . . She was born in Tokyo and raised Kanagawa . An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art , practicing the arts or demonstrating an art . The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only . The term is often used in the entertainment business , especially in a business context , for musicians and other performers ( less often for actors ). " Artiste " ( the ___MASK26___ for artist ) is a variant used in ___MASK54___ only in this context . Use of the term to describe writers , for example , is valid , but less common , and mostly restricted to contexts like criticism . Kanji , or " kan ' ji ", are the adopted logographic ___MASK98___ characters (') that are used in the modern ___MASK65___ writing system along with hiragana and katakana . The ___MASK65___ term " kanji " for the ___MASK98___ characters literally means " Han characters " and is written using the same characters as the ___MASK98___ word '.