

For subscription information see Subscription & Price.List of all PSP ISOs at Emuparadise. Full-text access is restricted to subscribers. As a result, the global comic market is a translation market, too – “exporters”, like the US, the Franco-Belgian area and Japan, can be distinguished from “importers”, like the German-speaking countries and the Scandinavian countries, as well as from countries where export and import largely balance each other out, like Spain and Italy. In the 20th century, comics spread from the US first to Europe and then, especially after the Second World War, to the rest of the world.

Though its roots – the socio-political caricatures of the Briton William Hogarth and the picture stories of the German author Wilhelm Busch – go back to Europe, comics only got their typical form in the wake of industrial developments in the field of mass media at the end of the 19th century. Comics are believed to have originated in the US, where the first comic strips were published in the New York World in 1895.
