[ivanhoe]

Oh yeah, I had a very similar childhood story growing up in old Yugoslavia, I loved Mister No and Martin Mystere. It's really strange how Bonelli's comics got super popular in Balkans and Turkey, but are much less known in the rest of Europe. Also Max Bunker's Alan Ford has a cult status in Balkans, it's probably the best known and the most quoted comic book in a popular culture here, but no one heard of it pretty much anywhere outside ex-Yugoslavia region.

[eih]

You are right. When I visited Serbia, I bought some locally printed copies of Bonelli titles, along with some other great artists' works printed in Serbian. I am not sure about the other ex-Yugoslav countries, but I can easily say that Turkish and Serbian comic/graphic novel readers have a very similar taste.