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American Newspapers to Begin Carrying Manga
jonerik writes to tell us The Associated press is running an article stating that several American newspapers are going to start carrying manga with their normal arsenal of comics. The papers feel that this will help boost their readership amongst a younger audience. The two strips that made the cut are Van Von Hunter, and Peach Fuzz which are both created by American writer/illustrators and are being distributed by Universal Press Syndicate.
Where does the line between manga and comic art exist then, if not by country of origin?
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If it ain't Japanese it ain't manga. They should have picked up Azumanga Daioh.
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How about filling their newspapers with informative and well written articles that don't contain glaring factual errors? It seems like almost every article on a subject I know something about has blatant factual errors in it.
How about publishing the news as it happens? It seems like most of the articles in the New York Times cover things I knew about a week earlier.
How about not using anonymous sources, or at the very least outing the sources if they are proved to have been lying?
How about not pretending there is such a thing as unbiased reporting? Saying "one is lead to believe" instead of "I believe" is just another form of lying.
More to the point: ...which are both created by American writer/illustrators...
I'm sorry. I thought the headline said "Manga" was being added to the newspapers.
Illustrated stories by Americans are called "comics."
And no, it doesn't matter if they are not joke-based. Ever hear of "Prince Valliant", "Sally Forth" or "Spider Man"? This is just more of the same.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
You know, this might be one of the smartest things anyone in the media has done recently. Even if it turns out to be an enormous flop (and I think it might have a chance of succeeding,) at least it's a new direction. They are at least trying to get out of their rut.
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In the 1980s and 1990s Belo bought newspapers across the country.
To quash competition in two-newspaper towns, they paid rediculous amounts for exclusive rights to features like comics and Dear Abby and Ann Landers.
People quit buying the competition and now we have a lot fewer two-newspaper cities.
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Americans take what is brilliant, run it through a lamifying filter and end up with Fitz US style, Nikita US style. End result: lame, politically correct bullshit.
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Considering Harry Potter's success, i'd say yes. Altho I doubt the kids will read the Finances section.
My parents used to buy the newspapers that had the comic strips that I liked. For my father there wasn't much difference between newspaper A or newspaper B, but I _HAD_ to see the comic strips. So he always bought newspaper A for me.
See, newspapers aren't aimed at kids. They're aimed at the PARENTS. The comic strips are just a marketing device, and manga inclusion is just a strategy to keep that market (people don't buy newspapers as often as 10 years ago). Since comic strips like Peanuts don't attract the young people right now, manga in newspapers was bound to happen, sooner or later.
I will never give in manga in newspapers unless it is http://sinfest.net/.
Although it's likely never to happen considering the author, Tatsuya Ishida, has been rejected 11 times by the syndicates.
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You cant HANDLE the Japanese editions?
With weekly Jump magazine weighing in at @ 500 pages the comic section would be bigger than the paper.....
I guess it's not champagne unless it's made in france, either?
Whether its cheap or imitation champagne, youre still going to find it in the champagne section, not housewares.
Manga functions as a classification here. If you saw only examples of the new comics, without names or classification, you would say 'Wow, it's manga.' or at least 'Hey its manga-like'.
The significance to this article is the potentially interesting classification of these new comics. If you disagree with the classification, then it is just not noteworthy to you and you can file it along with the latest baseball scores, or hockey scores, or tennis scores, or soccer scores, or breadmaking tips, or bridge puzzle, or local restaurants found to have slime in their ice machine, or the weekends crappy indie music conerts, or whichever one of these things it is you just dont give a damn about.
Without this potential significance, this would not have been news. You are not permitted to reject something as an article of news because you disagree with its significance. An item is news because it has signifiance to some of its consumers.
Nor are you permitted to reject it as an item of potential significance, because it _is_.