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stories in issue 1 are in English, the comic is as "tweetalig" as the editorial claims it is,
being a combination of the local and the international.
The desire to localise international comics culture also prompted Qif [fig 55], which
contains some of their most blatant perversions of traditional Afrikaans culture, presented
in the format of a bland, conventional cornie.
In combining these two sources, Bitterkornix are forced more and more to consider the
way a cornic works. Concurrent with their mastery of comic tools is an examination of
them, leading to the sometimes concious separation of the narrative and the mechanical.
Eventually, in terms of subject matter, they move from incidental detail to direct attack,
in, for example, Siembamba and Jeugweerbaarheid.
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