The 'ol Sequential Art

As some of you may know, I enjoy the occasional comic book. This includes foreign comics, predominantly Japanese manga, but also the occasional Korean or Italian or French work. Translated into English, of course. Anyhow, with the explosion of manga's popularity around the world the Japanese are now trying to figure out what that really means for them. This article in the Japan Times is pretty interesting, though I think that some of their visual examples are unfortunate.