Eastern Europe Digs Khmer Comics
Sep 6th, 2006 by Jinja
Eastern Europe digs Khmer Comics
At least, I think it’s an Eastern European Language. Maybe it’s from ‘Cornucopia‘.
(Clarifications, anyone? The whole office is stumped.)
Every now and then I get a heap of hits on the Khmer comics page – earlier this year it was Japan, last year, Spanish language sites. In a country where reading isn’t a favored lesiure activity, illustrated stories are a good starting point. You can find comics at just about any newsstand in Phnom Penh. Most are reprints, decades old.
Readers’ advisory: persuse with caution. High degree of unintentional kitsch.
http://del.icio.us/slugdog/khmercomics
Pretty far eastern European — it is, in fact, Turkish.
It’s been 37 years since I spoke Turkish, but I can still translate the headline, which reads “Cambodian Comic Book Cover”.
Dude, serious language props.
So that’s why ‘Constantinople got the works’.