Is manga overtaking American comic books in popularity?
Is manga overtaking American comic books in popularity?
Christopher Russell
Evan Kelly
It did awhile ago user
Kevin Brown
It already had, but now it's undeniable.
Even in America manga has seen an explosion in popularity in the last 2 or so years.
Joshua Powell
FOR THE LAST TIME, YES
Ryder Gonzalez
not to go all east v west, but theres just more variety in eastern material, where most western comics are super hero stuff
Eli Myers
They have been since like the early 2000's
Parker Lopez
We're well past that, the big turds just don't want to admit it
Henry Russell
Oliver Cooper
Western comic books are too busy being "diverse" and pushing LGBTQ agendas. Comic Books got woke and are going broke.
Julian Myers
The bigger issue is just that every comic company is aiming for the same 3 demographics.
Namely:
>Self-hating middle aged white dudes who want to prove that they're good allies in between huffing nostalgia farts
>Boring American women
>Twitter SJWs
It turns out that these groups aren't actually that big, so appealing exclusively to them isn't such a great idea.
Manga understands that there exist people outside of these groups, so publishers offer something for everyone, whether it's tweens looking for fun action, women looking for romance and drama, men looking for serious action, all sorts of sexualities, history buffs, gun nerds, fucking fishing enthusiasts, rock climbing buffs, you fucking name it.
Kayden James
>Even the graphic novels section is like 60% manga
Justin Sanchez
>The bigger issue is just that every comic company is aiming for the same 3 demographics.
I wonder why specifically the west does this. Japan (and even other parts of Asia) seem to have figured out that pandering to niches or other audiences is profitable. Why does the western comics industry keep itself chained to mass appeal and/or faggotry even though it doesn't pay?
Ian White
Why don't you make a new topic for once?
Isaac Gutierrez
>Why does the western comics industry keep itself chained to mass appeal and/or faggotry even though it doesn't pay?
Laziness and maintaining their control.
The big 2 don't really care about comics as an industry, they only care about maintaining ownership of their IPs so they can use them to make profits elsewhere (mainly in movies).
In Asia most of the big comics are at least partially owned by their creators, if not owned outright.
Even in fucking China, creators tend to own their comics and can make an actual living off of their work being popular or getting adapted to some other medium.
Lucas Young
sauce on the artist?
Xavier Reed
jcm2
Chase Howard
cool. thx
Tyler Myers
>overtaking
It did decades ago, user. Where the fuck have you been?
Jeremiah Price
No. You're a retard if you think that's the main issue with DC and Marvel when American comics have way WAY bigger issues
>Status quo never changing so every story feels boring and paint by the numbers
>reliance on decade old IPs that have just grown stale
>Price of comics in general are too high
>Art quality has hit rock bottom
>writing is even worse
>nothing but Superhero stuff as far as the eye can see
None of that has anything to do with LGBT shit and is because the owners of the comic book IPs are lazy and p
Henry Watson
Trust me when I say that capefags will find more and more ways to cope with their dying industry.
Just look at Death Battle threads and how they insist that power levels=quality.
Dominic Carter
Even if the Big Two marketed to broader demographics, created new stories in limited-run single-author formats or serial anthologies, slashed their prices by turning to B&W newsprint, and put their stuff in grocery checkout lines and gas stations, do you really think Americans would read them? When they can just scroll on their phones while out, and switch their brains off to reality shows at home?
There's simply too much stigma around comics on the home front.