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http://www.camouflagecomics.com involves some comics by young and not so young argentinean artists and some theorical papers by argentinean and european nice folks, dealing with comics during the "National Reorganisation Period" (our last military dictatorship). I think people should read it. It's a...

Yeah, it's true, you have a different approach and I still have a lot to read (your site is packed with text!). I also dislike most of semiology tratment of comics. Anyway, most probably you have (and i'll look like an idiot), but if you haven't I should strongly recommend the reading of Groesteen (...

Let's see. It's not the first time someone is trying to explain me comics as a language. The work of Umberto Eco and other semeiologists would be the mandatory reference. Even thoug i'm not so sure about that, let's treat comics as a language in the argument. And if I do that, the only problem i fin...

Are the North American comics available in translation, or do you read them in the original english? I was wondering how much language barriers affect things. Both. There are argentinean editions of Marvel and DC stuff. But all the rest can easily be found from spain's publishers. And there are a l...

The article was interesting. I just wanted to note a few things: From the distance, you seem able to recognise a "Japanase", or "Manga" style. From the distance, i am able to recognise a "super heroe" style. Not every comic in Japan is mainstream manga and not every comic in north-america is that ma...

Comics are a niche market now, much like making velvet elvis paintings. And like all niche markets, they cater to specific tastses. As far as i know, argentinean comics market is a much much much smaller "niche" than north american. A fact: Argentinean comics usually print 2000 copies, except a ver...

I've read and liked the 100 things about comics that Alan David Loane loves and that got me thinking. And since it was from this site that i linked, i thought maybe i'll write some of that over here. The list is very eclectic, that's true, but it perfectly ilustrates something i've been thinking abo...