Comments on: I was finally on NPR http://www.comicsbeat.com/2008/07/21/i-was-finally-on-npr/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:33:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: Xenos http://www.comicsbeat.com/2008/07/21/i-was-finally-on-npr/#comment-43725 Xenos Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:39:02 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2008/07/21/i-was-finally-on-npr/#comment-43725 As much as I love manga, I am disturbed at how a foreign import is outselling the domestic. While foreign novels or even films are read and viewed, they simply don't dominate the market the way manga seems to be dominating the sub-market or sub-medium of graphic novels. As much as I love manga, I am disturbed at how a foreign import is outselling the domestic. While foreign novels or even films are read and viewed, they simply don’t dominate the market the way manga seems to be dominating the sub-market or sub-medium of graphic novels.

]]> By: CT http://www.comicsbeat.com/2008/07/21/i-was-finally-on-npr/#comment-43724 CT Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:13:08 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2008/07/21/i-was-finally-on-npr/#comment-43724 The numbers from the NPR piece also caught my eye, and <a href="http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/07/20/domestic-vs-foreign-in-graphic-novels/" rel="nofollow">made me fill in the blanks as to why domestic graphic novels aren't moving</a>. The numbers from the NPR piece also caught my eye, and made me fill in the blanks as to why domestic graphic novels aren’t moving.

]]> By: Sphinx Magoo http://www.comicsbeat.com/2008/07/21/i-was-finally-on-npr/#comment-43723 Sphinx Magoo Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:31:12 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2008/07/21/i-was-finally-on-npr/#comment-43723 Congrats on being on NPR! Hopefully this will be the first of many times. As for foreign novels, doesn't the Harry Potter series count? After all, Mrs. Rowling's from Scotland! ;) And Tolkien and C.S. Lewis certainly weren't American. Maybe Brits and Scots aren't considered foreign... ;) Congrats on being on NPR! Hopefully this will be the first of many times.

As for foreign novels, doesn’t the Harry Potter series count? After all, Mrs. Rowling’s from Scotland! ;) And Tolkien and C.S. Lewis certainly weren’t American. Maybe Brits and Scots aren’t considered foreign… ;)

]]> By: Torsten Adair http://www.comicsbeat.com/2008/07/21/i-was-finally-on-npr/#comment-43722 Torsten Adair Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:09:06 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2008/07/21/i-was-finally-on-npr/#comment-43722 They don't buy a lot of foreign novels? Sacre bleu! Exhibit A: Oprah's "classics" book club: Love in the Time of Cholera One Hundred Years of Solitude Anna Karenina Daughter of Fortune (All of which, because of the Big O, were instant bestsellers.) Then there are the classics, like Thomas Mann and Pablo Neruda. Newer authors like Paolo Coelho(!), Haruki Murakami, Mikhail Bulgakov, Orhan Pamuk, and (ahem) Marjane Satrapi. They don’t buy a lot of foreign novels?

Sacre bleu!

Exhibit A: Oprah’s “classics” book club:
Love in the Time of Cholera
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Anna Karenina
Daughter of Fortune
(All of which, because of the Big O, were instant bestsellers.)

Then there are the classics, like Thomas Mann and Pablo Neruda. Newer authors like Paolo Coelho(!), Haruki Murakami, Mikhail Bulgakov, Orhan Pamuk, and (ahem) Marjane Satrapi.

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