Broken Frontier's Year-End Interviews
Broken Frontier has a number of year-end wrap-up interviews with reps from various comic companies, including:

• CrossGen's Bill Rosemann
• Dark Horse's Lee Dawson
• DBPro's Les Dabel
  
• Image's Eric Stephenson
• Oni Press' departing Jamie S. Rich

Interestingly, when asked which trends this year were important for the industry overall, several interviewees answered "Manga," including CG's Rosemann:

Personally, I loved walking into bookstores and seeing so many young readers looking through shelves and shelves of manga. This is what's going to bring in the next generation of readers and (hopefully) feed them into the direct market like the newsstand racks used to.

I don't know if the success of manga in bookstores will translate into much business for the Direct Market, but it's nice to see other companies acknowledging the gains manga made this year.
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