Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics

Part of Schodt's motivation for writing it was to introduce manga to English speakers.

It also includes translated excerpts from Tezuka's Phoenix, Keiji Nakazawa's Barefoot Gen, and Riyoko Ikeda's The Rose of Versailles, and the Reiji Matsumoto short story "Ghost Warrior".

was enthusiastically reviewed in the mainstream and comics press and received a prominent endorsement from Stan Lee.

In 1996, Stone Bridge Press published Schodt's "sequel" to Manga!

In the introduction to this book, Schodt states that a Japanese bistro in Berkeley, California took its name from Manga!