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AN academic believes he has found a way to understanding the communist state of North Korea: by reading its comic books. Heinz Insu Fenkl, a literature professor at the State University of New York who describes himself as an American-Korean, produces English translations of the hard-to-find graphic novels, which are called "gruim-chaek" in North Korea.

a landmark measure justifying manga's status in the publishing sector and its value for readers in Taiwan.

under the old restriction barring the national library from putting comic books on open shelves, the library gave away the comics it collected to local libraries until recent years.

However, the Australian law is very vaguely worded, and I fear it’s going to cause as much harm as it may cause good. For example, from an academic’s perspective, it’s clear that one of the problems of this legislation is that it will have a very strong chilling effect on Australian scholars interested in studying anime, manga, slash, and yaoi, or even other forms of sex/uality, because of the sheer possibility that clicking on a link, ordering a movie or manga, or even purchasing an academic book or reading a journal article on the subject might expose one to an image that could be interpreted as “child pornography” under Australian law.

would have established the catagory of "nonexistent youth"

The banning of fictional depictions of child abuse would likely be as meaningless as the banning of fictional depictions of car chasing with the aim toward reducing motor vehicle accidents in real life.

If content alone was the issue, war footage and horror films should be banned as well.

What excited him most, however, was not access or audience or fluidity. Size matters, he said. He'd always dreamed of a way to enlarge his drawings so that readers could appreciate each and every detail in his work. "Costs a lot physically, but if you can just touch the screen and enlarge an illustration? Wow." A few days later, a writer friend at a dinner party in Manhattan told me of an older author he knew who was reading more now--mainly because of her new e-reader'sfont-size enlarger. Ed Chavez, Marketing Director for Vertical, Inc., publishers of Japan-related books and manga, agrees that screen size counts a lot. "The iPad takes care of the limited screen of the iPhone, which adds an element most have not considered in Japan: a new platform for manga distribution."