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Over Drawn: ​The Dilemmas Facing China’s Booming Online Comics

China’s wildly popular online comics struggle to reproduce the magic of the 1990s

When I was in middle school 20-some years ago in a small town in Inner Mongolia, I was always excited for the beginning of each new month. That’s when Cartoon King would hit the shelves at my local post office in Ordos.

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Over Drawn: ​The Dilemmas Facing China’s Booming Online Comics is a story from our issue, “Online Odyssey.” To read the entire issue, become a subscriber and receive the full magazine.

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