FPI on French Manga Publishing Fears Using an ActuBD.com article as a springboard, the Forbidden Planet International blog puts into wonderfully plain and sensible English the idea that's been lingering for a couple of weeks now that the election of Segolene Royal to the French presidency could have potentially negative consequences. Something to read and issue on which to keep an eye. The same piece mentions a resistance to manga by French BD shops that I hadn't heard full articulated, either.