Comic Books (1983: Doomsday)

Comic Books are books or magazines of sequential art, usually accompanied by text in the form of narration or speech bubbles. Comics as a form of entertainment have experienced a huge boom in popularity after Doomsday due to the destruction of most major film and television production.

Effects of Doomsday on Comics
In the first years after doomsday, entertainment took the backseat to survival, but as things began to settle in various areas, the need for escape became apparent. With Hollywood and New York gone, american film and television production was eliminated. The printed word became the norm for entertainment in most of the doomsday affected world, but for some, it wasn't enough. Old copies of comics as well as smaller self-published books began circulating and gaining popularity due to the more visual focus of the media. With the establishment of larger publishers and access to a wider audience comics managed to establish themselves as a major player in the entertainment market.

Copyright laws were a major question post-doomsday with most survivor communities ignoring copyright altogether. The Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand being the sanctuary to the US government became the last holdout of american copyright, and due to the destruction of many intellectual property holders, held "fire-sale" auctions of many intellectual properties. Other nations such as Victoria, simply deemed all intellectual property created prior to Doomsday in the public domain.

List of Comic Book Publishers

 * American Comics - Currently the worlds largest comics publisher. Owns the copyrights to most of the old Marvel and DC properties in the ANZC territories and attempting to enforce them in other territories.
 * Omega Level Comics - The major comics publisher of Victoria. In talks with American Comics for a joint publication deal in order to publish within ANZC territories, as well as looking into expanding into the Canadian market, where its library of titles is expected to be popular.