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I don't see why you say that french BD follow the same fate as some of the other things you talk about. From personal experience, growing up in India we always
by dhruvparamhans 8y ago
I don't see why you say that french BD follow the same fate as some of the other things you talk about.
From personal experience, growing up in India we always had either Astérix or Tintin to read. Even some of the lesser known works such as those by Giroud were available.
Now that I have been living and working in France for 6 years, one possible reason for this lack of penetration of french products is the language. There is very little effort to actually make the products accessible to the world at large. Now we may discuss the merits and demerits of this but the fact remains that if we want our products to be known all over the world, we have to make it known to the world. And most of the world speaks English.
Mes deux centimes.
- p0nce 8y ago> There is very little effort to actually make the products accessible to the world at large. Exactly, we should stop searching for excuses.
- sametmax 8y agoSaying asterix and tintin are well exported to demonstarte bd are a success outside france is like saying Saying being on netflix shows the total success of bollywood outside india. But agreed, language is a big problem.
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- briandear 8y agoExcept Tin Tin is Belgian..
- dragandj 8y ago... and Rene Goscinny (the author of Asterix) was born in Poland...
- wst_ 8y agoHe's born in Paris. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Goscinny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Goscinny
- sametmax 8y agoExactly, when we talk french bd, it's more things like "la quete de l'oiseau du temps", "fluide glacial", or "les chroniques de la lune noire".
- dragandj 8y ago"Lesser know works" such as those by Giraud? The guy is practically the god of modern BD!