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Originally Posted by barryem
As an aside, when I was in college in Houston I drove a taxi to pay the bills and there are a lot of Mexican neighborhoods in Houston and I spent a lot of time working in them. Every store in those neighborhoods had graphic novels on racks and they seemed to be very popular. These were in Spanish and since I learned to read initially from reading comics and figuring out the words from the pictures I decided to learn a little Spanish by reading these, which I did.
Those graphic novels weren't like English graphic novels or comic books at all. The stories were pretty much the same kind of thing you'd see in TV shows of that era, 1960 to 1965. There were mysteries, soapish stories, westerns, love stories, melodramas, medical stories, etc. All were simple line art, often extremely nicely done, but never the sort of fancy artwork you see in comic books or graphic novels. Most were the size and thickness of paperbacks and contained 2 or 3 stories in a few hundred pages.
Barry
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I remember seeing those when I lived in Long Beach! I don't see them now that I live in Houston. But I suspect that has more to do with the neighborhood I live in than anything else.