MonkeySee

Quote of the Day:
(from The Basement Tapes, a weekly column by Joe Casey and Matt Fraction)

Watching the awkward attempts to tap into that girl market with ill-conceived American comic book "equivalents" is like watching a virgin fumbling with a bra clasp. Chalk another one up to American greed. "If they can do it so well, shouldn't we be able to do it ten times better...?" ...that's the biggest failing in the American monkeysee manga trend, honestly. It's not just the format, dummy. It's not just the art. Big eyes on Mary Jane or 300 black and white pages of ROBIN in a 7x5 format would be like wearing a beret and striped shirt and expecting to be embraced as a native Parisian-- it's shallow, superficial, and most of all, crass and naive. Medium and message; form and content. Same old narrow thinking as always.

Amen.