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At most, various sources mention one or two different conventions, but I couldn't find any extensive type of cataloging. (though, if anyone is aware of such a thing, please let me know)I started trying to make a cross-cultural list like this back when I used to have the forum, but that project seems to have stagnated. This is a research project just waiting for someone to take it up (like oh so many)...

Underlying message: Graphic systems are not universal

one graphic system can influence another one

subjectivity can be encoded in a panel as a whole, shifting the viewpoint of the panel to a member of the fictive narrative.

     (1): Though this is in some part the fault of the manga being drawn in pencil, the characters aren’t drawn in distinct “heavy lines.” The standard theory when creating manga states that one should draw characters with thick, defined lines (heavy lines), and the background with a thin pen such as a mapping pen, causing the characters to stand out from the backgrounds. Drawing the characters and backgrounds with the same quality of line, (often even leaving no space between the two) the characters often seem to get buried in the background.      2: The individual panels are too “complete” as illustrations. This is only true for each singular frame (panel), and there isn’t enough of an attempt to connect one frame to the next, or to guide the reader in following the flow of the manga.

Hiroshi Matsui, a 74-year-old chemistry teacher at a vocational school in Hiroshima Prefecture, said he felt the book "is drawing in children who didn't get a feel for science from textbooks that focus on entrance examinations."

even some highly-acclaimed artists have only a limited number of facial types. Creating a hfully-realized human face from scratch is very hard work, and it's not surprising that artists tend to resort to either shortcuts or other ways of distinguishing characters from each other. So what other ways are there to distinguish characters? The most obvious methods are hair and clothing, body type, and body language.

creating a unique posture and body language for them.

Hair and clothing are tricky because they're very changeable. What a character really needs is an overall sense of style that enables you to identify who they are regardless of what they're currently wearing.

The Traverse Area District Library launched a bi-weekly Manga Book Club last Thursday evening, drawing a dozen enthusiasts of the Japanese illustrated novel.

Manga fans drawn to Japanese comics

That was the case when she dabbled in Fan Manga, which is a fan-drawn comic using existing characters but with newly created storylines. She had entered her work into a National Fan Manga contest that required her to use a manga called "Black Sun Silver Moon." Soon after she entered, she heard from the contest sponsors, TheOtaku.com and the go!comi publishers, that she was one of 15 finalists. Guests at the New York Anime Festival voted on their choices -- and at the ending ceremonies, she discovered her work had won."My fan manga will be published in the back of the actual manga 'Black Sun Silver Moon,' which is every manga fan's dream: to be published in a real one," she says. "I haven't gotten word which issue it will be published in but go!comi said they'd let me know."

Europe has caught the bug, too. In the United Kingdom, the Catholic Church is using manga to recruit new priests. One British publisher, in an effort to hippify a national franchise, has begun issuing manga versions of Shakespeare's plays, including a Romeo and Juliet that reimagines the Montagues and Capulets as rival yakuza families in Tokyo.

Manga sales in the US have tripled in the past four years.

Circulation of the country's weekly comic magazines, the essential entry point for any manga series, has fallen by about half over the last decade.

wanted manga (comics) and illustrations should be subject to regulation for child pornography.