The comics, however, occasionally bear witness to a Nordic background or heritage, for instance, in the form of words in Finnish or the Scandinavian languages, names of characters or the milieux in the comics. In these respects, Nordic comics are part of a broader transnational comics culture. We state that the comics in the collections are not identifiable as particularly Nordic based on their themes or the stylistic or visual repertoires. We discuss in what way Nordic comics might be said to be new and how they can be considered to be Nordic. Throughout history, the cultures of the Nordic countries have at certain points been seen through a lense that stresses regional commonality, most recently with terms like ‘‘New Nordic Cooking’’ or ‘‘Nordic Noir.’’ In this article, we examine the possibility of a common concept of ‘‘New Nordic Comics’’ by analyzing a number of Nordic comics anthologies.
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