Asterix, Tintin, Lucky Luck, Corto Maltese, Mister No, Dylan Dog and many other comics that although they are considered classics in Europe, they've made no impact in America. Why is that?
Why are European comics so unpopular in the US?
Asterix, Tintin, Lucky Luck, Corto Maltese, Mister No, Dylan Dog and many other comics that although they are considered classics in Europe, they've made no impact in America. Why is that?
Americans don't read.
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I wanted to say that Americans read DC and Marvel comics.
Americans only read capeshit
But what about Manga?
Not enough BBC
Why was buck Rogers never popular outside the US? Or horror comicsfrom the US?
It's Buck Rogers huge in the US?
>entire radio show
>several comic series
>2 TV shows
>ass tons of merchandise
>heavily influenced star wars, star trek, and Battlestar Galactica
>daffy duck parody
Even zoomers know buck rogers, not many considering most have foreign parents, but hes still there.
>buck rogers
>duck dodgers
HOLY SHIT.
It's Buck Rogers huge in the US?
other places had their own version maybe like the UK had Dan Dare fill the same role
Then op's question is answered
Why would you want Americans to read them?
Because they're good.
Is Buck Rogers huge in the US?
They aren't that popular in Europe either and are mostly liked by niche public, they don't have the mainstream appeal or success required to make the leap
Granted Tintin and Dylan Dog are reasonably well known as pop culture characters, but nobody reads their comics anymore
Who the frick is Dylan Dog? Even as a man who hails from the land of Tintin, the Smurfs, Lucky Luke etc I have never heard of Dylan Dog.
an Italian comic about a paranormal investigator based in London he currently having a crossover with Batman not yet released in english
a crossover with Batman? Sounds interesting. Who's writing it?
written by Roberto Recchioni and drawn by Werther Dell'Edera and Gigi Cavenago
thank you, anon! I used goggle in the meantime and the few examples of the art look damn good
Because most of these are reliant upon a decent understanding of local culture or just an appreciation for the arts in general, something America hasn't really fostered thanks to certain groups flooding the industry with mass-produced crap that plays into childish interests.
>/misc/ tard
>Blame da Joos
>Completely forget/don't know about kino genius artists like Will Eisner
>replies almost a minute apart
A least TRY to hide it
Autism.
>thanks to certain groups flooding the industry with mass-produced crap that plays into childish interests.
But enough about Japanese and manga
We like one man, or a group of men, finding bad guy and doing violence. Anything else is too confusing or effete.
Americans have no taste. Asterix is fricking kino.
And don't ask me about Alessia.
Alessia, where's that?
WHAT DO YOU MEAN, ALESIA? I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE ALESIA IS. NOBODY KNOWS WHERE ALESIA IS.
most americans cant count roman numerals or read/write cursive.
>why don’t Americans have a deep love of Dutch and French culture
Because they’re not French or Dutch. Maybe stop intrinsically tying your work to your Euro-ness.
On the same sense, we shouldn't watch American movies because we're not Americans.
Yeah
I know French
Because they're boring.
Europeans are boring.
White people in general are fricking boring.
Let me guess. You haven't read any European comic, right?
I've read a few dozen, most of them were boring as shit.
>don't translate 90% of your stuff or sell it readily in other countries
>blame americans for them not caring
How does it feel knowing that euro threads only survive on this board when you start with American hating bait? If I loved eurocomics I would be pissed that these are the only tactics that get people talking. Also it wouldn't hurt to storytime more European comics. I will say it's a mixed bag. Some go over very well and get people interested in more work by that writer and artist. Other times they're okay at best and the thread comes and goes. I try to check out as many as I can. I do some of them to be okay or boring.
>blame americans for them not caring
When the frick did I say that?
You're the one who's out of touch here.
If you're OP then you're screwing eurocomics on this board worse than apathy from a country that barely has access to their comics. Thread quality is shit but when it's actually about the comics and not about America then it can do well. But like I said bait just works better in getting replies. Not so much in getting discussion and people caring. You think people are going to come into this thread and appreciate comics when they see this shit? No because you're only going to get shitposters taking shots at Americans who then dip out after they do so.
Yes, I'm the OP.
I just asked the question. I didn't invite any of those anti-American idiots here to talk shit about the US.
Yes you did moron.
>Asterix, Tintin, Lucky Luck, Corto Maltese, Mister No, Dylan Dog and many other comics that although they are considered classics in Europe, they've made no impact in America. Why is that?
Where is it then?
They aren’t translated and printed in enough numbers.
Asterix is translated into a shit load of languages.
Here's the section demonstrating how many languages it's translated to, in every language it was translated to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDAMxkMfHAo
Truth: Europe is an American colony, and everyone in charge wants to make sure that Europe will export nothing to Anglo countries, and import as much as possible. It's true for music, art, movies and everything in between.
Euro comics just don't have global appeal.
I don't know what it is or why it's this way, but only Asian comics seem to have actual worldwide appeal.
My theory is that Asians do a much better job of bridging the gap between kid's comics and adult comics, insofar as they have a lot of stuff that a teenager would enjoy, which results in most people getting into Asian comics as a teen and just not looking back.
Euro comics seem to mainly be comics aimed at kids and comics aimed at adults.
It's like the difference between movies like The Terminator or Robocop and movies like The Seventh Seal or a Wes Anderson movie.
You don't expect someone to go from watching the Super Mario movie to watching The Lighthouse, but that's what the Euro comic industry seems to expect from readers.
Well for starters, most of that shit ain't even translated last time I checked.
Weebs will autistically provide scanlations for manga readers, European frogs are too lazy to do that and to be honest the majority of European comics seem to be garbaggio (at least from what I've read).
Because they are european.
Even furry schlock like Blacksad is considered pretentious wankery due to its origin. Meanwhile actual pretentious wankery such as Goodnight Punpun is given a pass because it comes from Japan.
Trying to make it in comics as a white man is like being black, trying to make it in comics as european is like being black in the 50’s and tryinto mkae it in comics as eastern european is like being black in the 1850’s.
Didn't Blacksad have a white supremacy arc with the white furred animals? Fricking retaded if you ask me, it's probably for the best for yurope trash to stay in the bin where it belongs lmao.
you only get popular in europe if you spew pozzed american propaganda because that's the directive
Jeez, no wonder no one cares about yuroslop comics.
It's american israelites' fault. It's impossible to succeed when all the strings are pulled against you and the system is so compact and hostile. Europe is slowly getting erased because of American directives. Every day I wish the Nazis didn't lose WW2
What a shitty question and shitty thread.
Where are the energy blasts, powerups, and epic crossovers? Where's the continuity, how am I supposed to feel like a story matters if it's not a piece of The Story© that's been going on since 1939 and never ends? What the frick, this one is about history and it's not even American history? The art style is too different, this isn't what comics look like. Comics look like clones of clones of clones of clones of Kirby with all the originality and challenging aspects of Kirby removed. What are the IPs? How am I supposed to engage with a story unless there's some ripped moron in a circus costume who I know is the hero?
Tldr Americans are fricking morons with no artistic taste, this is not new.
Lack of marketing and awareness. Same reason Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck comics are bigger in Europe than in the US despite being Disney's home country.
I don't know, but I read them.
A lot of people here don't look outside of capeshit.
Speaking of European Comics I would think the US, the English-speaking counties, the rest of Europe and Latin America would've absolutely >LOVED the series of comics from this French comic franchise even the magazine itself
Why would I, when I have Spider-Man and X-Men and Batman and Superman? If I'm feeling a bit fatigued with that, I'll just read something COMPLETELY different like battle shonen manga, such as My Hero Academia.
And if I want something "le deep", I already have books (which I'll never read).