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Jhary:
Hi im new in the DCM i´m from germany if you have questions ask-

Yoc:
Welcome J!
So, how did you hear about the site?

jfglade:

--- Quote from: Jhary on December 25, 2011, 04:03:37 PM ---Hi im new in the DCM i´m from germany if you have questions ask-

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 Welcome and I'll take you up on the offer. I know Westerns literature and movies are very popular in Germany; I live in Wyoming and I'm amazed at the number of German tourists who go through the "city" I live in (population: 15,000 in the summer, fewer in the winter). I have seen a few German comics and I know that Western comics are a strong genre, if not the most popular genre. What other genre of comics sell well in Germany? We have a couple of German fans of Horror comics and they are a lot of fun but I'm not sure they represent anything but their own tastes or is Horror popular there too? Disney? Even just a few words about German comics would be appreciated.

 I hope you enjoy the group.

 Take care,
Jon

tilliban:
Hurz!
Noch ein Deutscher? / Another German?

I'm active since summer 2011 on DCM - a very friendly place with fantastic opportunities.
I run a German horror comic website: www.fifties-horror.de - might take a look there.

Concerning that question above about German comics:
It's mostly import. US-American, French, Japanese... you name it, we read it.

But there's a small underground publisher doing fantastic horror stuff - right in the spirit of EC.
In German. Have a click here:
https://weissblechcomics.com/home/neu_erschienen

Might be fun for all American readers as well.

Gerbiderbi:
Ach, Du auch hier?!  ;D

I am the mentioned publisher, and from time to time I like to download some golden age comic-books from the DCM ...

For the german comic-market:

It is dominated by three companies, which put out mostly (if not only) foreign material; there is Panini, which publishes the most US-Comics (that means they are publishing Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, IDW, Bongo and some more, all in one publishing house), their most popular books are The Simpsons (which sold here up to 160000 at its peak, which is far more than in US, as I know) and Star Wars.
The biggest is Ehapa/Egmont, which publishes mainly Disney-stuff.
In fact, Disney-Comics (especially Donald Duck) are the most popular comic-books in germany (not western; in fact, western comics are very few here, and they are oddly enough mostly produced in france), there is a weekly magazine called Micky Maus which is now being published for 60 years, and the even more popular monthly paperback "Lustige Taschenbücher" (sells about 250000, about 450 issues so far) plus a lot of other Duck-related books from collections of famous artist like Carl Barks to special editions featuring the adventures of the Fleagle Boys or something.
All the bigger companies have no policy for publishing comics originated in germany, even if they are publishing an occasional one from time to time.

The publishing houses which are producing original german comics are few, and most of them are small underground or independent-publishers like my company (with a meager output of 10 books a year), with one exception: The guys of Mosaik, they are putting out a monthly comic book (which is kind of a leftover of the GDR) on a very professional basis ...

There were some publishers during the 50s and 60s publishing homegrown comics, mainly featuring the tame adventures of knights and jungle heroes, or some SF-heroes. A lot of this stuff was drawn and written by just one man, Hansrudi Wäscher.
With the advent of US-Comics in germany during the 60s (by then western was very popular here) this kind of comics died out. Mainly because the imported stuff was far superior to the often crudely drawn comics of german origin.
   
 

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