Regarding the Sept. 8 article "Manga viewed as vibrant info conduit": I guess I should be happy to see any kind of story regarding manga appearing in The Japan Times, but the coverage of the recent 2008 Manga Summit left a bad taste in my mouth. Why weren't there any images of manga artists at the summit? Who were the big names in attendance?
As it was billed an "international" summit, comments from non-Japanese artists were to be expected, but why were there no interesting quotes from Japanese artists? Manga is still largely a Japanese-only art form. There's one benefit from all this: I'm more intent on going to next year's summit just to find out what was left out of the story.
curtis hoffmann
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