Some final notes and observations following "Comics Worlds and the World of Comics" in Kyoto. I had a great time, learned a lot, and was quite impressed in general. The amount of fail was surprisingly small for an academic gathering (a few people excepted), and several presentations gave me some very helpful pointers and new ideas.
My apologies for the prolonged silence. Work on my PhD project, the new website for Japanese Studies, manga translations, lesson plans, our uni's next Japan Week, and the manga library has been utterly insane for the last couple of months.