There is a big difference in art styles between Manga, which uses a graphic vocabulary stylized and American Comics, which tend to be more realistic. There are also a number of serious differences between the two types of comics: cost, creation, diverse audience and genres, presentation and even size.
Creating Manga and its presentation is very different than American Comics. Manga is printed in black and white, while the American comics format are mostly in color. Manga is often smaller than the American comic books. But where the American comics are generally thin like a small magazine, running about 32 pages, manga comics are thick and can be hundreds of pages long, a Mangaka (Manga artist) can produce much more boards per month than his American colleagues.
Manga are often outside an even bigger story and a complete story. Unlike American Comic, which are usually just a collection of cartoon per month in a single, unified story.
In Japan, manga is not considered just for kids unlike the American stereotype. There is about a manga for everyone. That being said, there are three main genres in Japanese Manga: Shonen Manga (Boy's comics), Shojo Manga comics (girl) and Hentai (adult comics).
The strength of the Manga is to have developed in a context that is the opposite Western knows no cultural elitism based on the rule of writing over the image. the Japanese comics prospered with two simultaneous factors: the segmentation that achieves all ages and audiences of both sexes, of all the social classes, and synergy with the animation industry including production, just as segmented this Manga. This double feature is at the origin of the globalization of manga.
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