Manga is really popular in America. American Comic Books, they don't have a fun name, are a smallish niche market which ironically harbor some of the most iconic figures in America.
Why aren't Comic Books as popular as Manga? Well, there are two very good blog posts discussing the reasons with much more knowledge and insight that I currently have into the situation.
noflyingnotights
So please, comics industry folks? Get it into your heads that manga works more because of the stories than anything else.
And a very long post from Halifax_slasher on Facebook:
The reasons for this change are due for their own essay (tentatively titled "What Went Wrong"), but for now let us note that while there was a time when a single issue of a comic would have Spider-man meet a foe, get defeated by the foe, mope around, become inspired, track down the foe, fight him again, defeat him, and then wrap up a subplot involving Aunt May--in other words, when an issue would contain a complete dramatic arc--nowadays Frank Miller can write entire issues in which Batman never leaves the car.I'll write a long-winded post about the styles of early comic books vs. modern comic books and writing for the trade vs. writing a done-in-one another time.
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