After reading the latest Tilting at Windmills at Newsarama and learning about how manga moves (or doesn’t) at the shop owned by columnist Brian Hibbs, I thought it might be interesting to hear from other comics retailers on the topic of manga for a future installment of Flipped.
Does it sell? Does it sit? Do your super-hero readers dabble? Have any manga-only customers started to show up? Do you market your shop as selling manga? Have you decided against adding manga to your stock? Do you wish publishers would take a break with all the new releases?
Any perspectives are welcome. I know whatever I put together would be entirely anecdotal, but, in my world, “comprehensive” is a synonym for “too much work,” and Ed Cunard promised me I could be as lazy as I wanted. And Ed, as a person with dogs, knows that promises are not to be made lightly.
So, if you feel like it, drop me a line at DavidPWelsh at yahoo dot com, and let fly. (Also, please feel free to tell me if this topic has been broached several hundred times before by minds much wiser than I, and that I should really, really reconsider.) Thanks!