* Deb Aoki talks the manga market in broad strokes as part of the Deconstructing Comics series on comics markets, a series in which I took part a few weeks back.
* Shannon Smith floats the notion that Twitter makes it easier for fans and readers to express their displeasure over corporate policies.
* there's an interesting, short post here from Ryan Holmberg about the effect of manga on alternative comics in India. If that doesn't just sound like an interesting article right out of the gate, I don't know what would.