Les Cités obscures from Peeters and Schuiten have won this year Japan media art award so they have good taste :-)
Nice, that comic is from 80s, and it's not japanese. So despite that it's an anual award, it awards works from previous years: it works more like the nobel than like the oscar, in terms of the period of time to be considered in the award. That's a good sign to me.
One can see that the oscar is part of the film industry (if it encourages the quality also improves the profits of the industry). And if some awarded movies are really good, yo also can consider another awards like the sundance film festival or like the Berlin film festival, that seems to work a bit different on that respect. My question was more in the sense if there are those kind of differences between the manga awards.
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About the pace problem...
In this project we don't want to read alone a good completed comic; we want to share our impressions with other and to enrich our reading with other's impressions... But some of us read faster/slower than other, and some of us want to read 2 or more volumes per week, and other 1 volume per week, but . If some people read fast, maybe they won't want to wait to know what happens next. But nobody wants his reading spoiled. To face this problem, we have set up a rule about the time to share our impressions, not about the reading pace:
You can't comment a chapter assigned for a future week. You only can comment a chapter assigned for the present week, according to the schedule.
This rule would let the people read at their own pace, and still everybody would be able to share their impressions about the chapters of the respective week when the thread of that chapters comes. This could be a convenient rule if the serie is short; because you won't have to wait much to share your impressions. But, when the serie is a long one, at some point, the rule could begin to be a problem:
"I already read the volume 13, but in the thread they go only in volume 5. I will have to wait a month to be able to talk to anyone about this fantastic panel..." Possibly when the thread for volume 13 comes, a month later, the fast reader will have lost the will to share or the feelings produced by the chapters one month ago, etc...
I have thought in a way to have the collecting reading and, still at the same time, to let everyone read at his own pace, and comment at his own pace. It's simple: lets suppose we are going to read Planetes, which has 4 volumes. We could open a thread for each volume since the first day, and replace the rule above by this one:
In the thread for volume n, comments about chapters belonging to volume n+1 or more won't be allowed.
As I say, a thread per volume will be opened since the first day; and all the threads will remain opened for a concrete period of time, say 2 months. After that period all the threads will be closed for ever. Then the reading will be a collective one because in a period of 2 months a group of people meet to read and comment the whole series, and because the reading has a start date and a deadline. Between those two dates, everyone will be able to read at his/her own pace and to write his/her comments and impressions at his/her own pace, and every one will be able to read and comment the posts of the other people in a way that his/her reading will be not spoiled. (It will be ones decision if one reads the comments about yet not read chapters). (Also, notice that one can use the quotation to make a faster reader to come back upon his/her posts of a volume already read by him/her)
What do you think?
