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Article: 1001 Comics - Going Global
Posted: August 19, 2013
This coming Friday August 23rd, I will be talking about 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, from 5-6pm, as part of their Stripped programme of events - you can book tickets here! You might not realise this, but the internationally translated and hugely successful series of 1001 guides, covering everything from beers and battles to golf courses, does not necessarily stay the same from country to country, or language to language. That’s right, there is no worldwide consensus on the best of anything! In the case of 1001 Comics, while the interior images cannot be changed due to everyone printing from the same master files, so those entries with illustrations have to be included wherever it is published, other text-only entries without a picture can be replaced by great comics from the past or present on each new edition’s home turf, as long as they slot into the chronology of the year of first publication, of course. Read the rest of my report here…
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