Comic Day Argentina

Comic Day is a project that was conceived in 2005 by a group of Argentine artists, editors, critics and readers in order to celebrate and spread comics.

The day chosen for its realization was September 4, the date on which the first issue of the weekly magazine Hora Cero appeared in 1957. This magazine was published by Editorial Frontera, owned by one of the most prominent screenwriters in the country: Héctor Germán Oesterheld.

In its pages, El Eternauta was serialized, a work by Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López that marked a milestone in Argentine comics.

On October 15, 2009, Law 3,220 was sanctioned by the Buenos Aires Legislature, which established September 4 of each year as Comic Day, urging the city's Executive Power to carry out activities and promote policies aimed at developing the Comic as art and cultural industry.