OEL, MIC, M-O-U-S-E… For those who are still wondering what to call non-Japanese manga, there’s an interesting debate going on right now at Wikipedia over whether to retitle their Amerimanga article.
For the record, I scoffed at “global manga” but I have come to see its usefulness because its so inclusive. Amerimanga is too narrow—do we have to call The Dreaming Australimanga? Of course the term “Amerimanga” refers to the venerable magazine of that name. My daughter ordered a used copy from Amazon a couple of years ago. I picked it up the other night and was impressed by the quality and the artists—Amy Ganter had a story in there. But I would suggest the Wikipedia entry should just cover the magazine and redirect to a more inclusive term for non-Japanese manga.
I was looking at that and here is one of the problems with Wiki…anyone can add to it:
//Other Amerimanga magazines are still in publication today, including EigoManga’s SakuraPakk and RumblePakk titles; Purrsia Press’s Manga Maximum; Mangazine; and Shoujo. International magazines of the same type include Britain’s MangaMover and Sweatdrop; the Australian publications Xuan Xuan and Oztaku; and the Canadian magazine Kitsune.//
That entire paragraph should be removed.