 More permanent venues, retailers and galleries devoted to independent comics work also began to appear, including Squishface Studio, Silent Army Storeroom and Santa Clara in Melbourne, and Junky Comics in Brisbane.From the 1940s through the 1970s, many local reprints and translations of American — as well as British, European, and South American — comics were published in Australia.Since the 1980s there have been fewer local reprints and more direct importing of foreign comics.