French comics

Aren’t you tired of learning a language with limitless vocabulary, grammar & phonetics, and mixture of these making your brain entangled and finally ending up with a perception that learning a…

French beginners, you deserve a break. Kick back with any of these 4 exciting French comics and improve your French while you're at it!

When showing our appreciation of comics and cartoon illustrations, social media has become the new kitchen refrigerator. From at least as far back as J.R. Williams’ single-panel Out Our Way on to Berkeley Breathed’s Bloom County strip, newspaper comics were clipped and magnetically stuck to our metal doors, alongside the grocery shopping lists. Since Facebook has replaced that Frigidaire function, not only can we invite our “friends” over to our house on a global scale, but w

Are you an "innie" or an "outie"? No, I'm not talking about your belly button! I mean are you an introvert or an extrovert?

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Denis Bodart French genius

Artwork from Canales and Guarnido's hybrid of hard-boiled detective comic.

Artwork from Canales and Guarnido's hybrid of hard-boiled detective comic.

If you’ve spent any time at all in pretty much any bookstore in France, chances are you’ve noticed a very dominant genre: comic books. While in the U.S. comics are largely relegated to niche culture and bookstores (despite a recent popularity surge), in France they are considered a staple of daily life. Here are 5 French cartoonists you should know.

Would you believe that one particular publication inspired a range of visionary creators including Ridley Scott, George Lucas, Luc Besson, William Gibson, and Hayao Miyazaki? Moreover, would you believe that it was French, from the 1970s, and a comic book?