23 Facts About Hungarian comics

1.

Hungarian comics are comics made in Hungary and by the Hungarian diaspora of the surrounding countries.

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2.

Since Hungarian comics were so closely bound to the printed media, their creators were mostly caricature artists as well.

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3.

Not as many Hungarian comics were made in this period, while – for example – Yugoslavia, the southern neighbor, claims this period to be their Golden Age.

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4.

Adaptational Hungarian comics, what started out as a trick, became dominant for decades.

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5.

However, adaptational Hungarian comics provided a safe relationship with the cultural-political leadership, and were still popular, comic book import was close to zero, so nothing forced comic artists to move on further.

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6.

Hungarian comics made experimental collage comics in the early seventies attracting international attention.

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7.

Besides the inexperience of the small publishing companies, the Hungarian comics-reading audience might not have been ready for these type of Hungarian comics.

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8.

DC Hungarian comics were not as popular as Marvel superheroes, so the titles merged and were made bimonthly in 1992 as Superman es Batman.

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9.

Hungarian comics experimented with erotic comics – with surprisingly small success.

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10.

The stories did not fulfill the Hungarian comics needs and the price seemed to be too high, resulting in the canceling of the title at the end of the year, along with Spawn.

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11.

Children's Hungarian comics were the main profile of major publishers like Egmont and smaller companies such as Abrafaxe Kft.

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12.

Also during this period, Hungarian comics' own offline printed media has been born in the form of semi fanzine-semi professional papers as Panel, Buborekhamozo .

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13.

Parallel to the Hungarian comics market moving to the bookstores, publishers put more emphasis on graphic novels.

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14.

European Hungarian comics constitute a substantial portion of the Hungarian comics published for the alternative market: 36.

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15.

In 2014 Bonelli Hungarian comics are published again in Hungary, with the debut of Dylan Dog number 1.

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16.

Individual graphic novels, comic books from Hungarian comics authors are not as common, but luckily each year produces a handful of them.

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17.

However some editors and journalists believe, Hungarian comics have the potential of recruiting more comics fans and reaching a cult status in Hungary.

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18.

Comic-book-friendly magazines and newspapers, where Hungarian comics related articles are more frequent include Beszelo, Magyar Hirlap, Magyar Narancs, Nepszabadsag, Filmvilag, MoziNet, Muut.

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19.

In 2007, although Hungarian comics did not have its own category, a webcomic blog won in the Entertainment category, and another Hungarian comics text-blog managed to fit into the top ten.

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20.

Hungarian comics represents the publishing companies at book fares and some other events.

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21.

The ratio of Hungarian comics published through this distributional form is conspicuously high: in 2009 59.

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22.

Hungarian comics stores specializing in comic books are relatively rare, and are usually based on comic book import.

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23.

Eduard kepregenybolt was the first specializing in Hungarian comics and had the widest variety of small print number, self-published comic books.

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