A Burning Dog — This Week’s Links

Features Clark Burscough | August 28, 2026 Hurtling towards September at a rate of knots, in this week’s links, below, which means we’re heading into autumn’s comics festival and awards season, and then it’s basically a hop, skip, and a jump into the festive period’s end-of-year lists and planning ahead for January’s New Year’s resolutions — start playing the Oscars music, it’s time for the 2026 retail year to begin moving to leave the stage. Carnet #gouache #crayon — Franck Bourgeron (@franckbourgeron.bsky.social) 2026-08-18T15:17:46.733Z This week’s news. • Beginning this week’s selection in Japan, as Nippon.com reports on the ongoing decline of sales of print editions of shōnen magazines, with readers moving to digital copies of the publications, the market for which is also contracting, as the Japanese government continues to support the economic soft power export of manga and anime overseas, while aggressively pursuing anti-piracy campaigns to maximise the profits gleaned from this. • More manga news, out of Europe this time, as the French government announced a Saudi Arabia-backed plan to build a €6 billion manga-focused theme park, bankrolled by the Saudi Public Investment F...