As far as I'm concerned, the British comic scene is almost non existent... and never have I heard of 2000AD...

I do remember Beano though - more specifically, Dennis the Menace. As a kid, I even bought the annuals 🤣

I only read a few US comics/graphic novels, so I can't really say but I did like Bone.

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Indonesia. The comic book popularity in my country has been increasing nowadays since many comic books including manga, were being adapted into any other works in media. Many people here are avid readers of manga and most of them, judging from what I've seen, are admirers of comic book and its interpretation. Examples, Batman and Spider-Man, being adapted into movies from their original form makes a very deep impact on the increasing popularity of comic book. The influence is so great it also inspires many to make their own works. Local comic book in my country is still clearly influenced from outside and is still growing, but actually the root has been planted since a long time. The strong point of these works are their capability to include their own locality into the subject; while substantially influenced by outside works, the comic books we have particularly have a distinguished color, if not vivid. I think we can grow bigger if we know how to separate the similarity, and paint our own color. Now it's only a matter of time. 🤢

The woman I love, Kozue, burns with jealousy, leaps to conclusions, cries and turns to ice, but when she laughs..the world is mine.

I live in the U.S. but I never read the comic books. I like how we have all these superheroes and supervillians though 😀

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but to one person you may be the world."
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"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" (from Hamlet, Wm. Shakespeare; Act II, scene ii)

(Even though the quote above is from Hamlet, I first saw it in a Final Fantasy Versus XIII trailer on YouTube ^o^)

Japan sooooooooo yeah 😛

And used to live in Belgium and they also had some really great comic books over there. Best known examples are TinTin; The smurfs; The adventures of Nero; Gaston Lagaffe; Lucky Luke & Largo Winch

So tell me, what's it like living in a constant haze of stupidity?

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At first, i thought i gonna vote"My country doesn't have local comic" cause it gone extinct since i was 9 grade, but i vote"Interesting, but not as good as manga" cause it does look interesting before it gone extinct, the art style was very nice for that time 😲 and story plot was quiet nice too even though it short but .....man, this poll bring back some memory of it 😐

I'm from Indonesia,

well, local comic here called.. err komik. Sometimes I find an interesting one [the story i mean] but there is always a problem with the drawing [which mean I dont really like the drawing style]. Our komik industrial still on growing.. I hope it will be better in 5 - 10 years, and I believe it^^

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Have you British guys never even heard of 2000AD? It's been published consistently every week since the 70s!

There is way more to Brit comics than just The Beano and The Dandy, hahaha! 🤣 Hell, some of the best-selling Marvel and DC comics are written and drawn by British folks...

Erm..in a word, no. I don't doubt that there are Britsh comic artists, they're just not really known about in the UK. In England at least, the only regular comic I saw on the shelf in the newsagents was the Beano (I never really liked the Dandy so I don't know if it's still going or not.)

As lelomew said, I think the British comic scene is practically non-existant unless you really go hunting for it. It seems to be on the rise though so there is hope yet.

The pen is mightier than the sword...and considerably easier to write with.

I live in Mexico and there aren´t many national comics here.
But I´m from France and I can say that European comics in general and French comics in particular are among the best in the world.
As good as Japanese manga, actually, but, yeah, definitely different. There´s so much variety right now, from gag comics to fantasy series to graphic novels that it´s impossible not to find something that suits your taste.
I don´t know that many American comics but apart from superhero stuff there are also many excellent ones. Just give a try to, let´s say, Maus by Art spiegleman, or Black Hole by Charles Burns. Actually, right now, the Angoulême Comics Festival is taking place in France and many talented comics authors are invited.
So, even if I definitely love manga, I would say, don´t read only manga, there is much more in the comics universe than just manga!

I'm from France and i prefer BD (french comics name, for Bande Déssinée) than mangas.
But since mangas are cheaper (around 12€ for a BD and 6€ for a manga...) and are released more often (a volume for a french comic serie is generally released once a year, or 2years) so in the end i read more mangas/manwha.
But in quality (draw, color, paper, book) i doubt there is many comics over the world that can beat french-belgium comics =)
but yeah i'm not really objectiv 😛
But if you read a french comic like Universal War One... you should know what i mean xD

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In France.. Well I don't like comics from here. The only one I've ever read is Asterix, the others don't seem really interesting

I heard you have stuff about bisexuals.
me wants

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In France.. Well I don't like comics from here. The only one I've ever read is Asterix, the others don't seem really interesting

I heard you have stuff about bisexuals.
me wants

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At the beginning of the 20th century, French and Belgian comic strips ("Bande Dessinee") had become regarded as an medium for children – this restricted their inclusion of adult and sexual themes, and lasted until at least the 1960s.[96] However, early Franco-Belgian comics for children such as The Adventures of Tintin,[97] Asterix,[98]99 and The Adventures of Alix have also had sexual and LGBT subtext inferred by readers.[100] Readers of Tintin books have speculated about his sexuality, leading to Marcel Wilmet, spokesperson of Studios Hergé, saying that Tintin is macho and not homosexual; Tintin has many male friends, but they are not boyfriends.[101][102] The Adventures of Alix comics by Jacques Martin are amongst the most prominent historical comics, and the text concerns the restoration of a moral order, but with a "homosexual subtext that may have been invisible to the original readers",[103] which includes the portrayal of a close relationship between Alix and his companion Enak and the full frontal depiction of teenage male bodies. Martin has disputed any gay readings of the central friendship in the books, but an article in Le Palace still called the "heroes homosexuel de notre enfance"

The works of French comic book creator Fabrice Neaud have been described as the "most ambitious autobiographical comics project yet published". These include his 1994 series Ego Comme X and the ongoing Journal, of which Neaud has self-published one volume every other year since 1996. The works chronicle day to day experiences and place them in a framework that examines representation and self-identity of sexual-minorities and the creative process. Volumes one and three focus on the author's homosexuality and status as a struggling gay artist in French small-town life: One story arc covered Neaud's unrequited love for a male friend. Neaud's works have been have been pointed to as examples that legitimised comics as serious literature, and elevated the regard for autobiographical works within comics.[107] The retrospective and subjective nature of the works leads to significant emotional events being afforded greater coverage, with the result that issues of sexuality and interactions between the author and other men are highlighted, reflecting the importance of sexuality to identity. This has led critic (and character) Dominque Goblet to dismiss the works as trivial; such criticisms have been attributed to bias against autobiography or comics, or inability to identify with a gay character

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I'm from America and I think that the comics here are just as good as manga.

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^Same. Comics here in the US are just as awesome as manga. :3

I've never read American comic books (ie Marvel), but I like comic strips such as Calvin and Hobbes, For Better or Worse, B.C., Far Side, etc - the ones that are (or used to be) published in newspapers. But I don't think they can be compared to manga because they have a different format/audience.