New McCloud coming out next year.

If you're into the nitty-gritty of comics, Scott McCloud's coming out with Making Comics next year, which looks like it's going to delve into the details of the sort of thing I'm doing with my manga essays, although his focus is on American and European comics, for the most part.

Mangatalk: part 2

This is again nothign formal, just tossing something up to see what people have to say. This is in response to kate_nepveu's comments here comparing Fullmetal Alchemist to Saiyuki.

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Part 3

OK, I have NOT uploaded any examples of what I was originally talking about - amateur artists - because of that whole "not wanting to look like I'm ripping someone apart when they didn't expect it" thing.

So this is a slightly different question - what similarities and differences do we see between Japanese shoujo and OEL shoujo?* The pool of candidates I have here is a slightly biased one, being books that I have on my shelves currently, because I recently took all the manga whose art I didn't like and put it in a box to go to Half-Price Books. :D

* We're ignoring that purists will claim it's not true shoujo if it's not Japanese. Maybe not, but it's borrowing heavily from Japanese shoujo, and thus I'm using the term. So, bleeah.

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Going to bed now. Eagerly await morning and the flood of OMG U DUN NO WUT UR TALKIN ABOUT LJ notifications. XD no, really, I loved all of the comments on yesterday's posts - they were *all* thoughtful and informative