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Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2019.1629606 BibTeX citation key: Malone2020 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: Distribution, Format, Germany, Interculturalism Creators: Malone Collection: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics |
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The small German-language comics industry has been transnational in several senses since its creation after the Second World War, caught in an asymmetrical relationship and dominated by imported – though not always American – comics. The market's marginal position and small size have made it difficult to establish the infrastructure for local creators to flourish, and in particular to create a product that can be exported. After the manga boom of the turn of the century, German comics publishers have tried with mixed success to use the respectably literary-sounding 'graphic novel' both to attract local readers and to raise the German industry's global profile.
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