Bandes dessinées, comics, historietas, quadrinhos, the transnational circulation of comics throughout the Americas

The very first cultural event for the promotion of comics was the Exposição Internacional de Histórias em Quadrinhos which took place on June 18, 1951 in São Paulo, fourteen years prior to the Bordighera salon (in Italy) usually cited as the very first comics festival. The specificity of the event in Brazil was that it presented not local but US productions. There had previously been various “exhibitions” on comics in the US (1944, 1948), in France (1948) and Italy (1950), but these had been ..