From: miles@gnu.org   
      
   "mangaKITTY"  writes:   
   > Well what I was talking about is the Japanese style comic known as   
   > manga but created by american authors.  Not like superman or bad man,   
   > But like Yoko Molitov's NecrOphilia.   
      
   I think everybody actually knows what you mean, but many have their own   
   preferred usage of terms like "manga", and will flame endlessly before   
   admitting that there is any subjectivity involved.   
      
   I _personally_ use manga (in english) to just mean "stuff from japan",   
   but I don't pretend to have much basis for that preference other than it   
   seems the most useful to me[*].   
      
   [*] Even though many american artists copy popular japanese drawing   
   styles, they always seem to feel more like a pastiche than anything else   
   -- there are vast numbers of subtle cultural influences on a person's   
   work that are very difficult to copy successfully.   
      
   -Miles   
      
   --   
   Suburbia: where they tear out the trees and then name streets after them.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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