We’re having major flooding in my city, so I’m heading to the mayor’s office this morning to help handle the phones. In the meantime, there’s plenty of good stuff to read on the web:
In this week’s Flipped column, David Welsh looks at how some of his favorite series are holding up over the long haul.
Christopher Butcher at Comics.212.net has some reactions to manga-ka Mimei Sakamoto’s condemnation of moe-addicted otaku as losers and pedophiles. With so much of this material in Japan, it’s inevitably coming over here as scanlations. The question is, will mainstream publishers pick it up unedited, either because it’s profitable or because fans insist on complete authenticity? If they do, all hell’s gonna break loose; if they don’t, it still comes over as scanlations. Chris’s piece is a thoughtful reaction to Sakamoto’s entertaining rant. Read ’em both.
Pata looks at the most popular anime in Japan and who is watching them, and his results touch on the issues mentioned above.
Seven Seas has posted an interview on their site with Madeleine Rosca, creator of the upcoming release Hollow Fields.
Newsarama has more on those Tokyopop YA novels.
The globalization continues: A Russian comic book festival features manga-inspired works and S&M teddy bears. I’m not sure if this is one of the manga-inspired comics, but it certainly could be:
Petrushevskaya creates her characters with a few broad strokes: big-haired women speaking about the minutiae of everyday errands with such urgency that the comics are almost exhausting to read.
