Manga-influenced, Globalisation or just mere co-incident?

Often we heard people saying students from the same college carry the same style. I guess this is something unavoidably common. With the blooming of internet, there is hardly anything absolutely new. People interact, share, download and copy, imitate and modify...like the common saying: the world is flat.


It is not by intension that I put the following images together so that to prove my points, just that my interest has lead me to juxtapose the images together and try to search for something in common. The following images are done by the hot-cake- illustrators in the States. What did you see? Manga-influenced? Globalisation or just mere co-incident? Maybe simply because most of them were nurtured by the same soil and water.


Image courtesy of Yuko Shimizu


Image courtesy of Koren Shadmi


Image courtesy of Dongyun-lee


Image courtesy of James Jean



Image courtesy of SAM WEBER


Image courtesy of Dan Park


Image courtesy of Tomer Hanuka


Image courtesy of Goni Montes


Image courtesy of Marcos Chin


Image courtesy of Andrew Archer