Czechs Today Comics publishing in the Czech Republic: from Garfield to the avant garde
In the past when Czechs thought about comics, classic children’s publications like Čtyřlístek (Fourleaf Clover), about four animal characters, or Fast Arrows – adventure stories for kids - came to mind. But after 1989, conceptions of comics gradually changed as comics not seen here before gradually entered the market. Soon, many grew instantly recognizable to most teenagers: classic superheroes like Spider-Man, Batman and others; on the other, newer genres also began to come in, edgier so-called new wave productions, of which Art Speiglman’s classic Maus was one of the most famous. What is being published now and how has the audience come of the age? Find out in Czechs Today.
Ivan Stable
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