/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3865101
Anon, Image Comics did to the comics industry what Gainax did to the anime industry; the fact they're the only ones who still publish Howard Chaykin's utter schlock proves how wrong you are.
>>3865569
It's funny you mention capeshit's inaccessibility because Japan has a term for decades-old multimedia franchises that hasn't quite caught on yet in western media studies discourse: media mix. Artists and authors do their own runs on critically acclaimed manga all the time, they just get overshadowed by the toys, themed cafes and restaurants, as well as video game, television and film tie-ins. You don't notice it all because you don't live there, and despite publishers' best efforts, prospective international markets are still subverted by scanlation groups distributing their work for free, often years in advance. By the time official translations get licensed, it usually takes months in between releases anyway, and that's only for the most popular runs! As an /m/ fan I can't even begin to tell you the number of gundam manga that'll never see official translations, let alone an english digital release.

>>3865101
Anon, Image Comics did to the comics industry what Gainax did to the anime industry; the fact they're the only ones who still publish Howard Chaykin's utter schlock proves how wrong you are.
>>3865569
>>3870131
>Not true for all but the art can be really poor in most popular ones, or from what I've seen anyway.
It's funny you mention capeshit's inaccessibility because Japan has a term for decades-old multimedia franchises that hasn't quite caught on yet in western media studies discourse: media mix. Artists and authors do their own runs on critically acclaimed manga all the time, they just get overshadowed by the toys, themed cafes and restaurants, as well as video game, television and film tie-ins. You don't notice it all because you don't live there, and despite publishers' best efforts, prospective international markets are still subverted by scanlation groups distributing their work for free, often years in advance. By the time official translations get licensed, it usually takes months in between releases anyway, and that's only for the most popular runs! As an /m/ fan I can't even begin to tell you the number of gundam manga that'll never see official translations, let alone an english digital release.