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« on: 30 September, 2013, 10:15:27 AM »
Hi, posting this here as I don't seem to have rights to post new topics in 'Suggestions'.
I was recently on holiday in France and noticed that graphic novels and comics are absolutely massive over there. Go into any bookshop and they will have a huge section devoted to all kinds of them. There are also loads of shops dedicated to them. As an example, walking round Lyon, we came across 3 dedicated graphic novel/comic shops in the space of a half hour walk in a relatively small area of the town. It seems to be much, much bigger over there than it is here.
A lot of the stuff they sell seems to be French language stuff, but I also saw quite a lot of Marvel, DC and Walking Dead stuff. What I didn't see was any 2000AD or Judge Dredd material. Given the size of the market, it seems to me that there must be a gap to be exploited there. Although I noticed a fair bit of sci-fi in the French language stuff, none of it looked to be a patch on Tharg and his droids' regular output.
Has there ever been a serious attempt to get into any foreign language markets? Would it be worth a go or would the translation costs just make it prohibitive?