[crashryan]

Recently Jimmm Kelly posted a link to a Brazilian site hosting dozens of that country's magazines and newspapers. Following one of his other links I landed on a fantastic site run by the Austrian National Library. Like the Brazilian site it features digitized versions of newspapers and magazines. It's a fabulous collection! About the only thing I haven't found yet is comics. Tons of magazines about sport, current events, fashion, movies, architecture...the collection covers a wide range of subjects including obscurities like Esperanto journals and a trade magazine for fire fighters. I can see myself losing many hours browsing here.

Here's a link to the alphabetical list of the collection, with helpful thumbnails of typical covers:

http://anno.onb.ac.at/alph_list.htm

[jimmm kelly]

I found that Austrian site about a year and a half ago and did a short blog on one comic strip that I found in DAS KLEINE BLATT--Seicherl und Struppi. This was the first daily comic strip to appear in a continental European newspaper--and, in fact became quite popular in Austria in its day. I can read some German, but this strip was written in Wienerisch, the Viennese dialect.

Go to OTF 03.09.13 for that blog.

I looked through some of the other Austrian newspapers at that time. It's quite interesting, because you can go very far back in time with some of those papers. However, I didn't find many other original comic strips that caught my interest.

I'm sure that I'll get back to looking at those papers again in the future. But I hope others will do their own searches. Many eyes have a better chance of spotting interesting material. It would be nice to find some comics that can be included on the German section of Comic Book Plus--since I like to practice reading German and I have an interest in Austria.