| Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga | |
First English edition of Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga, as published by Viz Media |
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| サルでも描けるまんが教室 (Saru demo egakeru manga kyōshitsu) |
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| Genre | Comedy, Parody |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Koji Aihara, Kentaro Takekuma |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| English publisher | Viz Media |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Big Comic Spirits |
| English magazine | Pulp |
| Original run | 1986 – 1988 |
| Volumes | 3 |
Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga (サルでも描けるまんが教室 Saru demo egakeru manga kyōshitsu) is a parody instructional book by Koji Aihara and Kentaro Takekuma. The series was serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits and in Viz Media's Pulp from May 2001 to August 2002.[1][2] Shogakukan published the manga's three tankōbon volumes between October 1990 and May 1992.[3][4] It is licensed in North America by Viz Media.[5]
Pat King from Animefringe commends the manga for its "excellent parody of the manga industry" and its artwork that "would be right at home in classic issues of Mad Magazine".[6] Johanna Draper Carlson from Comics Worth Reading comments on the "vulgar but funny" adult contents of the manga with its "nudity and various scatological gags".[7] Carlos Santos commends the manga for its "rundown of every major genre, by demographic" and praises the manga above other "How-to Art" books.[8]