{"id":2746,"date":"2014-11-01T18:40:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T18:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2014-11-01T18:47:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T18:47:36","slug":"new-comic-about-esperanto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/new-comic-about-esperanto\/","title":{"rendered":"New comic about Esperanto!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Esperanto subculture comic<\/p><\/div>\n

The American comic artist, Dan Mazur, published a 12 page comic about native Esperanto speakers. The comic appeared as part of a comic anthology about subcultures. Libera Folio interviewed the author and you can read the Esperanto translation here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

How did you get the idea? What was your objective?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, I was beginning the work of publishing an anthology of short original comics, by various artists, on the subject of “subcultures,” so I was thinking about interesting subcultures, and I thought of Esperanto speakers as a topic. I didn’t know much about Esperanto, though I’ve known of it since I was a child. I had a vague notion of it going back to the early 20th century, and some association in my mind (probably erroneous) with utopian or idealist movements like the Fabian society<\/a>. I thought it would be a pretty multi-faceted subculture, since it goes so far back. On my first Google search on the topic, I came upon an article about native Esperanto speakers, and this surprised and fascinated me… native speakers seemed like a subculture within the subculture! At this point I decided that I wanted to write and draw this story myself. I then watched a YouTube interview with Lana Shlafer [below], which had been shot in 2000, and I learned more.<\/p>\n