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No. 919: Sam learns about manga

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Sam learns about manga

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Strip by: Sanack2008

Silo: Are you in favor of the president's lower-tariff policy?
Sam: I don't know yet
{The two walk past what I think is an electronics store}
Sam: Are there any Japanese comic strips?
Silo: Oh, you sweet summer child, you have a lot to learn

The author writes:

You might think I should have changed "Japanese comic strips" to just "Japanese comics", since "strips" implies that they were distributed thru newspapers (I can only think of a few manga series that were ever distributed like that). However, "comic strips" also refers to comics originally serialized in magazines (like most manga are), so I will still keep the line as it was.

Original Sam's Strip strip: 1962-08-30.