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<blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 7952462" data-attributes="member: 6689464"><p>I think it is misblamed for creating a bubble, but from what I can read the bubble that burst was there all along (With the intense competition that happened in the late eighties, many new and poorly planed comic shops popped up and ended up over-ordering). The immediate effects of that event were actually more on the benign side, as the magnitude of the media coverage got many new people into the hobby.</p><p></p><p>And in my country, it had a deep effect that still lasts to this day. Late eighties weren't kind to my country's native comic industry, with paper shortages and heavy censorship. (The ministry of education was convinced that handwritten text was bad for eyesight and every comic had to be captioned with ugly typewriter letters) </p><p>By the early nineties, there was only two active comic book companies, one of them thrived on eternally reprinting the same content over and over -and every moth or so would publish small trade-paperback-like reprints from American comics- the other one produced Tijuana bibles. </p><p></p><p>By the early nineties, people who wanted comics had to go to certain coffee-shops that also served as libraries -to date these shops are still around and remain the go to place for any and all editorial novelties -. Over time fans had started to form small groups around these coffee shops, the thing is that every group believed it was the only group. Then Lois & Clark became a thing. Yes, it is Lois & Clark the only reason we had a Death of Superman to begin with. </p><p></p><p>Death of Superman was a game changer, national media just knew they had to cover it, but were deeply ignorant about it. They had no experts at hand to have it explained to them or to interview, so they went to the next big thing, the comic fans at the coffee shops. All of the media coverage increased demand for comics -and floppies invaded the news stands and supermarket- and it made fan groups aware of each other, and they began to organize comic conventions, and to create their own comics, and to celebrate being a fan. By the time anime entered the country, there was a lot of infrastructure already in place and it got refocused towards manga, but it was only there because the Death of Superman created the perfect storm.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MoonSong, post: 7952462, member: 6689464"] I think it is misblamed for creating a bubble, but from what I can read the bubble that burst was there all along (With the intense competition that happened in the late eighties, many new and poorly planed comic shops popped up and ended up over-ordering). The immediate effects of that event were actually more on the benign side, as the magnitude of the media coverage got many new people into the hobby. And in my country, it had a deep effect that still lasts to this day. Late eighties weren't kind to my country's native comic industry, with paper shortages and heavy censorship. (The ministry of education was convinced that handwritten text was bad for eyesight and every comic had to be captioned with ugly typewriter letters) By the early nineties, there was only two active comic book companies, one of them thrived on eternally reprinting the same content over and over -and every moth or so would publish small trade-paperback-like reprints from American comics- the other one produced Tijuana bibles. By the early nineties, people who wanted comics had to go to certain coffee-shops that also served as libraries -to date these shops are still around and remain the go to place for any and all editorial novelties -. Over time fans had started to form small groups around these coffee shops, the thing is that every group believed it was the only group. Then Lois & Clark became a thing. Yes, it is Lois & Clark the only reason we had a Death of Superman to begin with. Death of Superman was a game changer, national media just knew they had to cover it, but were deeply ignorant about it. They had no experts at hand to have it explained to them or to interview, so they went to the next big thing, the comic fans at the coffee shops. All of the media coverage increased demand for comics -and floppies invaded the news stands and supermarket- and it made fan groups aware of each other, and they began to organize comic conventions, and to create their own comics, and to celebrate being a fan. By the time anime entered the country, there was a lot of infrastructure already in place and it got refocused towards manga, but it was only there because the Death of Superman created the perfect storm. [/QUOTE]
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