Until recently there was no comic tradition in Albania where comics were seen as junk literature known as fumeti (literally, little clouds of smoke) supposedly because pop art was prohibited by the dictatorial communist regime.
Deri vonë nuk kishte traditë komike në Shqipëri, ku komikët shiheshin si letërsi e vjetër e njohur si fumeti (fjalë për fjalë, retë e vogla tymi), sepse arti pop ishte i ndaluar nga regjimi komunist diktatorial.