Friday's topic on NPR's On the Media was titled "Manga Diplomacy." It's a 7 1/2 minute interview with Roland Kelts (Japanamerica) that addresses the way Japan is acknowledging the potential and power of comics even in the political sphere. Beyond that, the brief segment hits on a few issues that have come up in our class discussions: demand for a "nitty gritty" definition of manga, difference of what is on the page versus what the reader projects onto characters, and brief explanation as to why cell phones are becoming a vehicle for comics.
You can access the link here:
http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2007/09/28/06
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Definitely interesting, and I can see its relevance to our next group of texts--not only forcing people to take the medium seriously, but using its unique attributes and role as well. I've been trying to figure out how to fit this into class--turns out Americans are working on "Manga Politics" too! http://slate.com/features/reagan/default.html
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