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Yet it translated well to a Canadian audience (Canadians really aren't THAT different from Americans), and was understood by every American child that I tried s
by btilly 8y ago
Yet it translated well to a Canadian audience (Canadians really aren't THAT different from Americans), and was understood by every American child that I tried showing it to.
Yes, there are jokes that get missed. But so many are understood that it was still funny.
- Freak_NL 8y agoWouldn't Canada be more receptive to Franco-Belgian comics due to the large number of French speakers? America had its own influential comic book industry since the early twentieth century, so it never got into importing them. For most of Europe (and beyond) the comics made in France and Belgium and translated in the vernacular were the absolute cornerstone of comics for most of the previous century. A lot of European kids who grew up in the twentieth century know about the American Old West through reading a cowboy comic (Lucky Luke) made by a Belgian, and first heard of Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire through Asterix.
- s_trumpet 8y agoI don't know, they were massively popular in India too, with local translations of most of the names. I still remember Getafix as Etashetamix (lit. "mix of this and that") first and foremost.
- btilly 8y agoI grew up in Victoria, BC. There were a lot of Asterix fans, and relatively few French speakers.