Manga on the funny page

by Katrina Kuntz

In other comics news, some North American newspapers will begin carrying manga-style comic strips in the Sunday funnies in hopes of attracting a younger audience. Beginning in January, some large-circulation newspapers such as the LA Times, the Denver Post, the Vancouver Sun, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and the Detroit Times, will run two American-written manga strips, “Van Von Hunter” and “Peach Fuzz.”

“We want to bring more features that appeal to a younger readership, and many of the comics we carry have an older following,” wrote Kirk LaPointe, managing editor of The Vancouver Sun, in an email published by the Associated Press.

DECEMBER 2005