Thread:Mesektet/@comment-24469175-20180305001935/@comment-3581997-20181030025348

The comics industry put itself in an elitist position. Selling coming only in elite stores dedicated to them with most of the front loaded "the charts say the kids like theses" ones needing to be push and hiding all non "Buy now" classics away til the new crap is sold. Also while there are less unions in Japan, Korea and China, they also keep 95% of the profits, after sale, the publishers need to be paid back their investment with interest, but once it is paid back the writers keep the sale royalties and rights, so popular manga can easily keep getting new issues once it gets going, however in the US and Britain workers unions are seen as a liability that need to be paid off, so publisher either take advantage of non-union writers or they overcharge the hell out of comics to make up for needing to pay a union - either way they put the weight on the stores to sell the issues while the actual creatives have may have little to no incentive to keep working since they see less profit slowing releases. Manga on the other-hand is pumped out like tissue paper. So it comes down to availability.