Fredrik Martinsson
Formerly known as Ultimate Warrior
Well I have thought that I would make this thread for awhile since we have members from all over the world here. This thread is about how the comics we all love is handled in the country we live in and it appears that I go first :wink:
So here in Sweden we have the same comics as in the states but not all of them. Comics based on action and detective tales is not a very good seller here. It is mostly comics that are based on comedy that sell. The top seller(s) that we have is Kalle Anka & co, which is Swedish for Donald Duck and company, and Bamse which is a comic from Sweden that is mostly for children 3 to 8 (no violence in it whatsoever). We don't really have a big group of teenager that reads comics, it's more of video-game and computer game magazines that sell instead.
Well, so how are the DC and Marvel comics in Sweden then?
First of we don't have many comics of the same hero(s) (as in Amazing spider-Man, Spectacular Spider-Man and Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man) but instead they have been put together as one comic (Spider-Man for short or as we call him Spindelmannen (but that has change in the last years when it became "the cool thing" to name the comic in the English name)). That means that we don't get one adventure in every comic but rather two and in some instances three by the same price as you pay for one. And that goes for ALL our comics. It wasn't until I started reading comics directly from the US that I knew that it was only suppose to be one adventure in every comic.
As I said adventure comics isn't very well liked in Sweden and some stores doesn't even carry them (as in supermarkets and such). Spider-Man and Batman doesn't sell good but there is still one action/adventure comic that sell fairly well here (and possible ONLY here) and that is the Phantom (or Fantomen that we call him) but other than that...
Comic-stores is VERY hard to find and you would be lucky if you find one the same area as you so a subscription is the best way to go. The best part with that is that if you have a subscription you get the comic BEFORE it hit the store (usually by two or three days). The bad part is that we are years, or in some cases months, behind the US in comics since it has to be translated and reorganized for the Swedish market and it's also the reason I started getting the comics directly from the US instead.
Comments?
And please write something about how it works in your country.
So here in Sweden we have the same comics as in the states but not all of them. Comics based on action and detective tales is not a very good seller here. It is mostly comics that are based on comedy that sell. The top seller(s) that we have is Kalle Anka & co, which is Swedish for Donald Duck and company, and Bamse which is a comic from Sweden that is mostly for children 3 to 8 (no violence in it whatsoever). We don't really have a big group of teenager that reads comics, it's more of video-game and computer game magazines that sell instead.
Well, so how are the DC and Marvel comics in Sweden then?
First of we don't have many comics of the same hero(s) (as in Amazing spider-Man, Spectacular Spider-Man and Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man) but instead they have been put together as one comic (Spider-Man for short or as we call him Spindelmannen (but that has change in the last years when it became "the cool thing" to name the comic in the English name)). That means that we don't get one adventure in every comic but rather two and in some instances three by the same price as you pay for one. And that goes for ALL our comics. It wasn't until I started reading comics directly from the US that I knew that it was only suppose to be one adventure in every comic.
As I said adventure comics isn't very well liked in Sweden and some stores doesn't even carry them (as in supermarkets and such). Spider-Man and Batman doesn't sell good but there is still one action/adventure comic that sell fairly well here (and possible ONLY here) and that is the Phantom (or Fantomen that we call him) but other than that...
Comic-stores is VERY hard to find and you would be lucky if you find one the same area as you so a subscription is the best way to go. The best part with that is that if you have a subscription you get the comic BEFORE it hit the store (usually by two or three days). The bad part is that we are years, or in some cases months, behind the US in comics since it has to be translated and reorganized for the Swedish market and it's also the reason I started getting the comics directly from the US instead.
Comments?
And please write something about how it works in your country.
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