Luis Sopelana: Thank you for your kind reply, I hope I didn't sound antagonistic or anything by reposting you. Your skeets were the closest that I could recall t any discourse of the sort, hence my "I'm not sure now." And yes, excellent points. Focused efforts always fare better than pipe dreams.

where is this western comics vs manga discourse. Are you trying to trick me?? I don’t see it. Anyway, comics are good for you.

I thought the bits and pieces of the discourse I saw were in reference to this but I'm not sure now. bsky.app/profile/zack...

@debaoki.bsky.social had a good thread going on another site about US-based artists who want to break into manga. They don't want to make comics, they want to make manga. They want to be in Shonen Jump. Which is an almost impossible goal to reach. And ABSOLUTELY requires fluency and living in Japan.

It's not a Western comics versus Japanese comics discourse, at least not from me. It's about a growing number of Western artists who only see success as publishing comics in Japanese in Japanese magazines. They want to appear in Shonen Jump, which is an almost impossibly high bar.

Instead of making exactly the comics they want and marketing them to a Western audience, their dream is to be read by a Japanese audience.

Thank you for your kind reply, I hope I didn't sound antagonistic or anything by reposting you. Your skeets were the closest that I could recall t any discourse of the sort, hence my "I'm not sure now." And yes, excellent points. Focused efforts always fare better than pipe dreams.

Oh, not at all. And my post was widely misunderstood, by people thinking it is about an art style. Which it is not...

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