[vdsk]

People in France who buy Comics/BD have a completely different aesthetic sense than manga buyers. There is almost no overlap, and manga buyers I know do not even register Comics/BD as an option. Comic artists are also usually very much against the manga aesthetics and seem to go for (imho) ugly designs to differentiate themselves.

[pjerem]

I know a lot of people who read both, it’s not some sort of mutually exclusive tastes. It’s just that they are really different products that only share the fact that they are a succession of drawings arranged to tell a story. Basically everything else is different.

[charcircuit]

Even assuming that is true, I believe that comics could be more successful if they changed their character designs to make them more appealing to look at.