@MoonSong love your breakdown of all the different venues someone could get graphic fiction in your country. I didn't realize it was so fractured! Do people there love graphic fiction? Any home brewed material? I know Spain has a ton of great stuff...
I could write a book on the subject. -I might have or might do...-. Some highlights:
Back in the golden age there were daily anthologies with ongoing series that predated soap operas. In fact one writer managed to keep the rights to her creations and was lated adapted into actual soap operas. She's behind the infamous Memin Pinguin. Which started in the golden age, but everything that is currently reprinted dates from the silver age. I don't know which house is currently reprinting this character.
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From the silver age, we had characters such as Kaliman, which started as a radio show, then moved to comics and had two films made. It currently receives new material from Kamite
Another Golden age book in eternal circculation is La Familia Burron
Now the interesting bits. From the early nineties we got Karmatron and los transformables. It is notorious that the original run is long out of print and the author decided to start over in the late 2000s
Now I want to tell you about two characters that are important on the convention circuit. First we have El Bulbo, he started as a mascot to the Conque convention. The author is still active, but mostly on the web:
This bright little guy's name is El Bulbo. He is Mexico City's most powerful superhero. He's been there for every crisis this great metropolis has faced. Except... he no longer wants to do it. He can't handle the guilt from all the destruction that follows him after every encounter with the...
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The other character is "El Monito", part character and part avatar of his creator, the late Ruben Armenta. He wasn't the most talented of artists, but he had a lot of heart and was a beacon of the community. Many artists collaborated with him, and he impulsed them to collaboration. (Why is he next to the Thing? Because that's the name of a convention, la Mole -the local name of the Thing-).
After the Death of Superman there was a boom of indie content. There are a lot of characters from that era. character such as Tetsuko la chica de acero, Siniestro cazador de Demonios, and antologies like Balam Comics. But the most successful new character was Meteorix, which managed to be in the newstands for over 90 numbers:
No other new comic has managed that. It ran from 2000 to 2007. By 2012 there were some comics in the newstands like Angel Caido, Aventuras Enmascaradas and overall SoulKeepers. Which managed a good run of about 18 numbers in two volumes
The boom came to an end when in 2012 Vid went out of business -Vid stores where the most important distribution channel for national content- and DC made new 52 and gave rights to a new publishing house -which was likely behind vid going out of business- these new 13 spots every week crowded out the new comics in newsstands -space on newsstands is at a premium-.
There was still a nationals only convention every year for a couple of years now, but it is gone now, and I haven't been to a convention in years, so I'm currently out of the loop.
Co-nationals in the web:
Pilli-Adventure
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Comic Roomies from Hell
CRFH An online comic strip. If you thought college was hell, wait till you meet your roommates
www.crfh.net
Dream keeper Robin -This is a reboot of a series that was originally published on a magazine-
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Power Nap
Power Nap METAFICTION - Science Fiction stories in the Power Nap Universe
powernapcomic.com
Prometidas a Domicilio -Spanish only-
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www.chron.com
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