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Title Pending 11532

2024; Open Library of Humanities; Linguagem: Inglês

10.16995/cg.11532

2048-0792

This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.As a result of the economic and political upheavals at the end of the 1980s, the Polish comic market in 1990s was dominated by foreign publishers (TM Semic and Egmont), who concentrated on American comic series and Francophone albums. This situation made it very difficult for young local comic artists to make their debut. Underground zines became not only a place for their unbridled creativity, but also an appropriate medium for a new generation of artists who were fighting for freedom of expression before the abolition of censorship in April 1990. Over the next decade, due to the Xerox aesthetic and the influences of American comix, they also became a tool for testing the boundaries of visual and textual narration. In addition, the third circle press enabled the next generation of artists to find their niches on the market and steer Polish comic culture in a transnational direction. Nowadays, Polish punk and post-punk comic zines are fascinating documents of the rapid cultural change in Poland and the development of local comic aesthetics and subjects, pointing to the problems of youth and the transformed society of the 1990s in a subversive and creative way.