The Ancient Near East in Czech Comics and Popular Culture. The Case of Jáchym and the Printer's Devil
2020
Abstrakt
For the early Czech comics - created, produced, and published in the first half of the twentieth century-the adventure "loci communes" were often the exotic lands of Africa and the polar regions. The heat of "Sub-Saharan" Africa and the freezing loneliness of the Arctic offered a popular background to the heroic and humorous stories of early Czech comic creators.
It is worth mentioning that these regions, these "places of adventure," were more often than not depicted in a general, stereotypical way, with nearly no attention to concrete geographical, historical, or political context, as was common in nearly all comic traditions.