Comic books in your nation

[Themyscia]

How are comic books perceived in your nation, would you say the most popular series are home-grown or from countries abroad like DC and Marvel. Do comics tend to focus on one genre like superheroes, leaving other genres to a graphic novel format or are there a range of genres for anyone's tastes. If they are highly popular, what is the best selling comic and if they are foreign made, how do they compare to the most popular of the ones created in your own nation etc.

In Themyscia, Comics weren't really a thing until the 1960s, The 1960s was a time where America began ramping up the trade with the nation introducing the likes of the fantastic four, Betty and Veronica and the biggest of all Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman came as a shock to the nation as they had never seen such an accurate depiction of what an Amazonian and citizen of Themyscia embodies, especially from men who had never once met or visited an Amazonian. The immense rise and spread of Wonder Woman into becoming a cultural icon and symbol of Themyscia, even made DC start producing special comics exclusively for the Amazonian Market. 50 years later and the official Wonder Woman movie starring an actual Amazonian as the title character became the highest grossing movie nationally.

The popularity of Wonder Woman also caused the growth of many homegrown comic publishers, the most successful being Olympia comics, their main focus was on producing superheroes seeped in ancient Hellenic mythology and Amazonian values. From the Heroic adventures of Artemis and Althaia and the Argonauts. Both were created by the legendary writer and historian Thalia Sostrate and secured a lukewarm unveiling to the wider world when Althaia joined the DC universe during DC's new 52.

[Great Nortend]

Comic books are more like 'Magazines for children' insofar as they include articles and numerous different comic strips. Comic strips generally do present a storyline though over their run, but are much shorter normally than foreign comic book storylines. There is, however, a very popular comic book 'superhero' known as Steeple-Man.

[Crysuko]

there are some ongoing comic series, one adult oriented one titled Liberandum set during the civil war, depicting the motivations, fights and hardships from the perspective of both sides.

[Victorious Decepticons]

Decepticon processors are such that it would take mere seconds to read a comic book, so the format (as used in other nations) doesn't even exist here. However, much longer "comic chips," which allow users to install thousands of pages of material at once, are quite popular among the younger population. Because of the demand for plenty of material per chip, issues typically only come out every three or four months instead of monthly. Of course, spinoff schedules are staggered so that the production companies can make money at all times of the year.

As you might guess, our most popular characters are not what most think of as "superheroes." If such types get any mention at all, it's because some Decepticon supervillian is going to whoop their asses and show them to be futile, stuffy, priggish fools who should have minded their own business. Typically, though, the protagonist is either a great raider, a warrior taking over some other planet, or something along those lines - except he will always have some new superpower, which will be explained by whatever plot device fits best, and will never lose.

All protagonists are always hugely patriotic, as they must be if the comic is to be approved for publication. Our youth will not be learning to question the correctness and glory of the Decepticon Way from our own media.

Unlike in some nations, it is quite common for Decepticon protagonists to outright kill their opposition. It is wimpy and un-Decepticon to have qualms about finishing the job in a permanent way.

If the opposition manages to live, it is surely because it is a recurring character, not because the hero has some kind of squeamishness about properly getting rid of the un-Decepticon scumbag. Even then, their running instance is likely to end up deactivated in every installment they appear in, forcing them to mind-transfer to another body. This other body is typically junky in some way, forcing them to upgrade it before they fight again (and thereby giving an IC excuse for their absence as other antagonists get their time in the spotlight).

Comics for mature adults follow similar themes, but go into more depth and nuance than those made for children and young adults. There are also more story types available at this level, though the "proper Decepticon super-raider kicks everyone else's ass and takes over their entire planet while they're at it" genre is still far-and-away the most popular type. Most people like this format because it, like cartoons, can depict things that break the laws of physics without also causing the un-suspension of disbelief.

[Gandoor]

Due to a near total collapse of the domestic comics market in the early 1990s, the modern comic book industry in Gandoor is dominated by Japanese or Japanese-inspired comics. As of 2023, 70% of all comics published in Gandoor originated in Japan, 20% originated in Gandoor, and 10% originated from other countries, predominantly the United States of America.

Of course this means that most, but not all, domestically produced comics in the Democratic Republic take from Japanese comics. Meaning that they're usually serialized in magazines with other comics, predominantly drawn by one artist (although artist assistants are extremely common and completely solo artists are very rare) who also may or may not serve as the author of the work as well, and, after having been serialized for a while, will be collected and sold in dedicated book-sized volumes of the work.

There are exceptions to this, naturally, some comics skip the entire 'serialization' thing entirely and are published exclusively as graphic novels and there still exist comics that began publication before the collapse of the market in the early '90s, most notably The Gremlins, an adventure comic aimed at a young audience (although, due to its long-run and the fact that the artists and writers of the comic don't dumb it down for kids, it also has a large adult audience as well) which has been published in our nation since 1964.

[Apiary One]

Comic books are banned for Apian citizens, just like most other books. We can't risk allowing anything that'll poison the minds of our workers with liberal and capitalist propaganda, threatening the existence of the Honeybee Doctrine and the cohesion of the nation.

Even if the comics were perfectly clean in content, there's a much more basic reason they're banned here. In Apiary One, citizens live to work and work to live. Anything that distracts them from working is out of the question. That includes games and TV as well.

[An Islamic World]

Comics books are banned in An Islamic World, although they are commonly found on the black market illegally translated into Arabic. Western comics are generally more popular among the underground comic market than ones from Asian countries like Japan, since they are viewed as being "for perverts and un-Islamic".

[Voxija]

Both western-style comic books and manga are popular in Voxija, but manga translated into Voxi is way more popular. Comic books produced in Voxija are nonexistent. The two types of comic books used to be roughly equal in popularity. Western-style comic books went out of fashion in the early nineties, but have experienced more popularity since for being "retro". Manga has remained popular in Voxija since the end of WW2.

[Bluelight-R006]

Comic books are allowed in Bluelight. They are either about superheroes, building up moral and decent values or about world politics, sports and news. They are one of the most effective ways of teaching and reproving unto citizens about recent news instead of ordinary digital news. To make it more interesting, most of them are sold as hardcopy, but they are available online as well.

[New Wolvers]

Comic books are allowed, and treated as a form of art as per Article 3 of the Art Protection law, which estabilishs comic books to be part of an artist way to tell stories, and are cheap as they are included in the list of literature. Usual comic book is around 2 euro maximum, and mostly are imports and comic books you can find anywhere in the world.
However, the Institute of Modern Arts of Wenceslav helps crowdfunding comic book artists who wish to publish their comic, as long as it does not vehicluate message of severe hate against an existing group of people.

[Yannia]

Comic books are legal and quite popular in Yannia.

Most comic books are made in Yannia, but about 12% are imported from other countries. Few are exported, because of the multitude of untranslatable, typically Yannian concepts, and because of the ubiquitous nudity in most comic books, and even downright pornographic content of many others.

Comic books made in Yannia are stylistically similar to European comic books. Some series are targeted at kids, some at adults, and some at both. One-off comics are usually targeted at adults.

[Zhouran]

Comic books exist in Zhouran. Unlike in the United States, superhero comic books in Zhouran aren't particularly popular. Instead, Zhouranese comic books are known to be either gritty & violent action-based, mystical fantasy-based, or cyberpunkish sci-fi based. However Zhouranese comic books also come in other genres such as comedy, detective, drama, historical, horror, mystery, romance, erotica, among others. Zhouran is known to be a major comic book market.

[Cosmopolitan Borovan II]

Daa ccomicc boooks inn ourr nation hass shown tthat we hab superheroes Superrman, Battman, and somme Marvvel superherros. We we doo nott hab thee alternative timelines comicss an lik there r lik verry few shtores abalable in the nation because is is nott poppular

[Tristainland]

Comic books are fairly popular among all age groups in Tristainland. In addition to Tristanian comics, foreign comics like America's Marvel and DC comics along with Japanese manga are also pretty popular.

[The Chuck]

Comic books are quite popular in The Chuck across the younger ages from childhood to mid-late twenties. There are many leisurely comicbooks along with actual comic books that contain valuable information regarding defense, proper maintenance of weapons, how to engage in guerrilla warfare, and other topics of defense and military training.

[Raider Clans]

Most comic books burned in nuclear fire, but sometimes they are found in basements and such.

[The Eternal Kawaii]

Comic books are considered high art among Kawaiians, with many genres, from children to adults, and covering almost every subject--both fiction and nonfiction--imaginable.

[Vallermoore]

They are very common and popular in Vallermoore.

[Karevka]

Karevkan comics follow the Western Style of Art, and despite the digital age, remain popular. They first began as newspaper comic strips in the late 1930’s with comedic and satirical strips (Karevkan law allows making fun of politics in the DRK) and the first state publisher, Zedgor Comics, was founded in 1952 and the first private one, Jesk Publishing, came along in 1953. Comics are published both online and on paper.

The some of the more popular comics are as follows:

-Vladov which is Tintin style action and adventure comic following the exploits of the titular Vladov. A animated series was eventually produced.

-Tales from the Front tells historical fiction stories from Karevkan wars, like the Liberation War, the Annexation Wars and others.

-The Unknown is about the strange, mysterious and scary featuring stories about things likes cryptids, extraterrestrials, strange disappearances and other similar topics.



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[Radiatia]

Comic books are referred to as "Manga" in Radiatia, even though they are not Japanese (the vast majority are Radiatian.)

The reason is that to most Radiatians the word "Comic" refers to comedians, or the genre of comedy, rather than a comic strip. (Although a funny comic strip in a newspaper could potentially be referred to as a Comic-Manga.)

Radiatian Manga is a huge industry, which has massive impact on the pop culture of both Radiatia and some of its immediate neighbours. Obviously over the years genres, stories and quality have varied considerably but the most popular genre remains the superhero genre, while graphic novels are also very popular.

Well known examples include:

- Captain Radiatia: Originally starting out as a slightly crude superhero comic to instil patriotic Radiatian values in children, the adventures of the all-Radiatian superhero and his battles against more often than not "Inefficient Foreigners" has gained considerable depth in recent years and been rebooted into a film series exploring more adult and mature themes, as well as now providing a critique of Radiatian culture rather than simply being an endorsement of it.

- Petroman: Similar to Captain Radiatia, Petroman was originally a corporate mascot (for Radiatian Petroleum) and chronicles the adventures of a gas station attendant who gains superpowers from drinking petroleum and fights against the evil Dr. Eco, who wants to destroy the oil industry and revert Radiatia back to an age without technology because he's so in love with nature. Despite being blatant corporate propaganda, Petroman has become a runaway success with fans both ironically and unironically (depending on age and political preference) loving the series.

[HUElavia]

Comic Books and Manga are freely sold in book stores and newsstands here in HUElavia. In fact, we willingly purchase American Comic Books and Japanese Manga, as well as Chinese Manhua and Korean Manhwa for people of all ages to enjoy.

Due to HUElavia having such a massive Book Publishing Industry (in the Top 1,000 in the World), we also Publish our own Comic Books and Manga/Manhua/Manhwa created by HUElavians and Immigrants (or descendant of Immigrants).

[Myuredia]

Граефюроман (Hraefyuroman), or Myuredian style graphic novels similar to manga, have been a popular for almost a century and cover a wide variety of genres for all age demographics.