This is probably old news to a lot of people, but cleolinda posted some linkspam a while ago, and one article in particular really caught my eye ( Read more... )

So after about fourteen hours of reading about anime and manga and their impact on western culture, it seems the definition of "manga" most people like to use is "that stuff that's better than traditional American comics." Manga isn't quintessentially Japanese to most people [there exists both European and American "manga"] and it's obviously not ( Read more... )