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Czech Comics 2020-2025 - Market Statistics and Development Review","A data-driven review of Czech comics between 2020 and 2025, grounded in published statistics from the fan-operated ComicsDB.cz database. The analysis challenges widespread early-2020s pessimism about an expected collapse during the pandemic and economic downturn by tracking publication counts and publication trends. It shows growth from 508 titles in 2020 to 712 in 2024, while also examining shifting shares of Czech authors versus translation-driven publishing, led especially by Japanese manga and Korean webtoons, and highlights the expansion of international translations.","COMICS  \nNEW  \nCZECH  \n| CzechLit – Czech Literary Centre is a state-funded organisation supporting and promoting Czech literature abroad and in Czechia. The centre is a section of the Moravian Library.\u003Cbr>CzechLit: |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| • Promotes prose, literature for children and young adults, poetry, drama, comics, non-fiction and new forms of literature\u003Cbr>• Acts as an information hub for foreign publishers, translators, Czech studies specialists, event organisers and others interested in Czech literature\u003Cbr>• Provides grants for authors to attend cultural events abroad\u003Cbr>• Cooperates on international literature and translation projects with partner institutions abroad and in Czechia\u003Cbr>• Organises residencies for foreign translators, Czech studies specialists and authors |  |  | • [Runs the bilingual website CzechLit.cz](Runs the bilingual website CzechLit.cz)[ ](Runs the bilingual website CzechLit.cz)with information about books, authors, grants, residencies and Czech literature news\u003Cbr>• Cooperates with the network of Czech Centres, which promote Czech culture abroad, as well as with other governmental and non-governmental cultural and non-profit organisations and individuals\u003Cbr>• Is involved in the presentation of Czech literature at book fairs abroad in cooperation with its parent institution\u003Cbr>• Holds the annual Susanna Roth Award for young translators of Czech literature |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  | CONTACT US:\u003Cbr>[www.czechlit.cz](www.czechlit.cz)[ ](www.czechlit.cz)[info@czechlit.cz](info@czechlit.cz) |  |  |\n\nThe Miracle Years? Czech Comics 2020–2025  \nFor several years now, the fan-operated [database ComicsDB.cz](database ComicsDB.cz) – a valuable tooland an important discussion platform for the core of the Czech comics community – has published insightful statistics. These track the development of the Czech comics market, quantify the number of publications, and compare various parameters, from the number of pages and type of binding to their origins. This meticulous work enables us to look back and critically assess certain ambitious claims, or directly refute assumptions that may seem predictable and “logical” but are often entirely false.  \nOne such assumption was the frequently repeated conviction that Czech comics and the Czech comics market would face a particularly difficult period in the early 2020s. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with the knowledge of a terrifying war occurring only a few hundred miles away, where Russian aggression was directed at their neighbour, Ukraine, and finally, in light of the deteriorating economic situation, it seemed entirely inconceivable that the boom in creativity and publication activity experienced by the Czech comics scene in the 2010s could continue. People simply would not have the time or money for comics; this pace was unsustainable; there would be no one to buy the books. These sentiments were echoed by many critics, fans, activists, and commentators.  \nHowever, a retrospective examination of the actual figures clearly refutes most of these pessimistic predictions. The number of newly published comics has been steadily increasing since 2000, a year that Czech comics historians commonly identify as the birth of  \nthe “New Czech comics”, and there was no disruption to this trend between 2020 and 2025. Although the first year of the pandemic, 2020, saw 508 publications – a decline compared to 558 in 2019 – the numbers resumed their upward trajectory the following year. In 2024, the database recorded 712 publications, representing a distinctive and statistically significant increase.  \nIt remains true that the Czech comics market is sustained largely by translations, with the proportional representation and significance of local comics slowly but steadily declining. Of the 712 publications in 2024, works by Czech artists account for only about one-sixth, specifically 120 titles (compared to 137 in 2020, approximately one-quarter). 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