How come Euro comics never caught on in the US? A bunch of stuff

>>93908564
You kinda answered your own question there sport. Because they are European and are made with different sensibilities to different markets.

>>93908675
Japanese comics caught on in the US, and Europe is closer the US culturally than Japan is.

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The US doesn't even like kind loveable Tintin

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All I ask is that Moebius's comics get translated and issued/reissued.

Most of what's available is sickeningly expensive.

A combination of getting sidelined by manga fever and anthologies falling by the wayside. Like most non-Big Two comics nowadays, unless it has an film/TV adaptation nobody cares.

>>93909746
Didn't Dark Horse come out with World of Edena to kick off their Moebius Library line months ago?

>>93910173
Dark Horse is taking their sweet ass time with their Moebius library. The World of Edena came out last November. The second volume, The Art of Edena doesn't come out until December.

>>93908675
Euro comics are very similar to American comics, although the Italians, Spanish, and especially the French have their own cultural quirks.

In general, the U.S. is not a big importer of media. If you think about it in terms of production, we make so much of our own shit that the media business rarely feels the need to make an effort to translate foreign media.

Japan actually outpaces the U.S. in terms of animation and comics, so some of their media can spill over into the American market. What we get is just a small fraction of what Japan has to offer. Also, part of what helped Japan break into the American market in the first place is that they were different, and could offer products that were different from the stuff that already gets produced in the States.

>>93910996
>Euro comics are very similar to American comics
Uh? There's almost no capeshit and no attempts to please SJWs, or reddit humor.

>>93908713
>Japanese comics caught on in the US
More like """""caught"""""" and they need to tie in with toonami to sell, as merchandising.

>>93908564
Price, as the traditional format for euro comics is a luxury item.
Stories also only deliver one album per year at best, so it' hard to keep the American public interested.
The cultural aspect is there too. Europe isn't as eotic as Japan for the readers, so stories set in European countries are just seen as boring or weird.

>>93908564
what about that fucking latin american comic series about an ancient king who saved/found a wounded alien, was made immortal, and went on to live/adventure through ancient history right through to the weird sci-fi future?

i'd read it.

>>93908564
Most aren't very good.

>>93910996
>Euro comics are very similar to American comics
How so?

>>93908564
A) Their comic market is controlled by a monopoly. It's really hard to place stuff not sold by the monopoly in comic stores.
B) Said monopoly generally is wary to publish stuff they don't have 100% control over forever and evermore and at least worldwide.

and, the most important

C) The US is actually really, really insular culturally.

Manga worked because there's a sizeable population of non-white people who read that shit and japanese publishers stepping up their game to break into a new market.

>>93910996
>Euro comics are very similar to American comics, although the Italians, Spanish, and especially the French have their own cultural quirks.

The Italians are the closest to US comic you can get, but even then the business models are still radically different. Italy increased the quality and tried keeping up with general pop culture while in the the US companies strived towards a monopoly position and cut themselves off of any need to react to their reader's wishes and tastes to generate their company's basic level of income.

>>93911665
Gilgamesh by Robin Wood and Lucho Olivera. Fights Nazis together with freshly tawned Valkyries and doesn't afraid to take the seed of humanity to outer space on a slowboat after Earth stopped being habitable.

>>93911669
Plenty of good stuff doesn't do well or hasn't been translated.

>>93912032
>A) Their comic market is controlled by a monopoly. It's really hard to place stuff not sold by the monopoly in comic stores.
How is it controlled by a monopoly? There are a bunch of French comic publishers.

>>93912693
The US market. Question was why non-US comics are having a hard time catching on in the US and one part of the answer is that. The market isn't free in the US.

That the french album format is even more expensive than floppies is another part of it.

>>93912921
>The US market.

How is the US comic market a monopoly?

>>93913369
Diamond.

>>93913369
Every US company has its products distributied by a company called Diamond.

>>93912032
>Italy increased the quality and tried keeping up with general pop culture
I... don't think you know what you're talking about. The #1 comic in Italy (Tex) targets 50 year old aficionados who grew up with it.

>>93913369
Diamond basically is the ony company supplying comic stores with the vast majority of what they're selling in that medium and they got a no-returns policy and a "buy X of our trash before you can buy a limited number of stuff your customers may actually want"-policy. Comic shops are forced to sink a lot of their capital into stocks of Diamond products every month.

>>93913505
The overwhelming presence of such legacy characters is why I said it's the closest to the US, yes. But Bonelli actually reacted to the challenges put up by TV and Anime in non-retarded ways. It's why they released stuff like Gea, which is basically Buffy Vampire Slayer purged of Whedon and why they released weird, but fun stuff like Legs and the Paladins (rather than something like that "Draw your first Dutch Wive Tentacle rape Action Manga" that was the Phoenix Mangaverse series).

Plus they countinue to cover a wide range genres with their line-ups. On top of my head I recall them having like three ongoing detective series, a couple of historics, scifi-stuff, wierd west and regular cowboy series, a trippy postapoc series, an urban fantasy series about vampire hunting, and some high fantasy with heavy cogpunk-elements.