Once upon a time there was a book and a monk. Tired of copying tons of texts, at a certain point he began to represent what he was writing with drawings. However, he realized that the drawing is missing something; so, with small writings in the image, he told what happened.
I am certainly not a historian, but I like to imagine the birth of comics in this way and, moreover, how many times in our youth, during tedious lessons of any tedious subject, did we try to draw short illustrated stories on the edge of our notebooks? I can only deduce that there is something instinctive in the creation of a comic.
Of course, years of testing, work and experience are needed to create successful comics, including as well as our brilliant and creative minds.
Today the comics market has been partially swallowed up by movies, TV series and video games, but there was a time and a space when this means of communication was the novelty of the moment, and was very popular in newsstands and bookstores. I’m talking about the 30s and 40s in New York. That timeline was nicknamed “the golden age of comics” and, to make a comparison, what is launched on TV today in those years came out as a comic: a mountain of albums, books and booklets that told reality, science fiction, romance, the Far West and so on and so forth with millions of colored or black and white panels.
And so Lirius Games, a new publisher that immediately raised the hype antennas in the gaming landscape, decided, with a successful Kickstarter campaign, to pay homage to this era with Age of Comics: the Golden Years.
We have never seen a publisher who puts players in the shoes of publishers. It seems like a mental loop but, once we have started this splendid Eurogame with a surprisingly light weight, everything goes back to its place, or us at our desks, or at our Royalties accounts, or around Manhattan collecting orders from newsstands. Yes, because in a handful of turns we will have to make our publishing house prosper with brush strokes, typewriters, hype and why not, even plagiarism: after all, like every market, comics also have their dark sides allowing us to make unsuspected profits!
The graphics are a joy for the eyes: pastel colors and typical design of the first half of the 20th century; and what about the cards and comic tokens? Each of them, original or plagiarism, has different titles and drawings, the result is an extraordinarily immersive German-style boardgame, like there are few.
Of course, the setup part is not exactly a walk in the park. Decks of cards to divide and, above all, mountains of tokens to lay out, neatly arranged on the board or in the resource pool.
We met Lirius Games at Modena Play 2024 and in a few minutes it was love at first sight for this title, and it bloomed be a wonderful collaboration! Our organizer for Age of Comics: the golden years, created together with this wonderful publisher, will take you to the Golden Age in just a few minutes: each deck will be in dedicated boxes, each token will be in its slot and you will finally be able to enjoy publishing as it should be.
So, what else to say? Create, sell and invoice, the Big Apple awaits you!
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