For this week’s edition of PWCW, Ed Chavez has a report on last weekend’s Comiket in Japan:

One of the original doujinshi events in Japan, Comiket is a multimedia affair, offering for sale doujin software (video games and computer software), doujin music, doujin novels and doujin clothing made by amateur artists looking to share their unique designs. As one Comiket volunteer observed, “Comiket is like a living version of Web 2.0, where interaction between creators of content and end users happens in real-time face-to-face.”

This interaction and the exchange of ideas is what makes Comiket so significant in the world of independent media. Every year more and more professional artists in several fields are scouted at this event, and many are now making a living at events like Comiket. The creative freedom behind the concept of doujinshi has helped make this one of the fastest growing sectors in Japanese media. And given the number of doujinshi stores popping up around the country and on the Internet, doujinshi might be considered the Japanese version of YouTube and blogs.

Also in this week’s PWCW: an interview with boys love author Satoru Kannagi; a look at Mark Crilley’s Miki series for HarperCollins; a sneak preview of Udon’s upcoming books; and a roundup of some of the comic-book movies being made or greenlighted these days.

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