ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONS IN EMERGING NATIONAL COMIC BOOK INDUSTRIES : THE CASE OF INDONESIA Azisa presented on the first day of the conference in the concurrent panel Global Comics. Her presentation deals with how emerging comic industries in developing countries are facing the difficulty of having none of the infrastructures and institutions to support the industry as such major comic industries as the US, Japan, and the Franco-Belgian cluster. Using Indonesia as a case study, the presentation expounds on how the local comic scene started their own homegrown institutions as a substitute to the nonexistent major publishers and market infrastructures, yet also how these alternative institutions also poses the threat of acerbating the industry’s growth. As studies of the comic scene in Southeast Asia is still uncommon, the audience responded with curiosity and a great deal of questions. The moderator, who is an editor in Dark Horse Comic publishing also expressed interest and a realization that however tangled and bureaucratic the US publishing system gets, the US is extremely lucky to have a running industry in the first place. Categories All