February 2, 2005
El Vibora Fading Fast
A mention in
this Spanish media article indicates that the seminal European comics magazine
El Vibora may not be long for the stands.
This story has actually been going on for about a year, when editors first faced up to the low circulation numbers. Editor Sergi Puertas told me last April for
this article that the numbers had fallen into the red. They hoped media coverage of the magazine's instability might boost it back to a profitable level. The numbers at the time were about what they are now, approximately 6000, a massive decline from when the magazine sold 45,000 copies an issue.
El Vibora was the first major European market exposure for some American cartoonists, and was an important first step into the Spanish market for cartoonists published there like R. Crumb, Peter Bagge, and Charles Burns.
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