Hungarian Magazines - Hungarian Comics, Infermental, Galaktika, Turn, Msok, Nae Novine, Na Vgre! (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hungarian comics are comics made in Hungary and by the Hungarian diaspora of the surrounding countries. When dealing with Hungarian comics, one cannot separate comics made by Hungarians from translated foreign matter, since in some eras most of the publications come from the latter group and influence comics fandom and the general picture about comics in the country. The Hungarian word for comics is kpregny, a combined word from kp (picture) and regny (novel). The word came in use after 1948, before that, kpes trtnet (pictorial story) and other similar expressions described the medium. The words comics (referring to American comics), manga (referring to mainly Japanese comics), bd / bande dessine (referring to Franco-Belgian comics) are sometimes used in Hungary, but, apart from "manga", are not generally in use. The history of Hungarian comics is best divided along political eras, because of the great influence politics made on comics. A Jnos Jank sequentally illustrated story in a Hungarian news journal, 1867.During the late 19th century Hungary, as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, kept pace with the European trends, pointing in the direction of what later became to be known as modern comics. Rodolphe Tpffer and especially Wilhelm Busch (Max und Moritz) were popular and had great effect on Hungarian journalism, and soon the Hungarian equivalents were born. One of the most important writers of the time, Mr Jkai founded (1858 August 21) and edited a magazine called stks (comet) based on the Fliegende Bltter. (During the Monarchy German language Fliegende Bltter was a popular magazine in Hungary, with several thousand subscribers in the country.). Pages were filled with caricatures and "pictorial stories" (kptrtnetek... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15515263