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Tintin and Asterix are pretty popular in the UK and India. Easily found in most bookshops. Beyond those series, it’s much harder to find other Franco-Belgian co
by signal11 3y ago
Tintin and Asterix are pretty popular in the UK and India. Easily found in most bookshops. Beyond those series, it’s much harder to find other Franco-Belgian comics. Even the Adventures of Jo and Zette isn’t that well known.
But Tintin and Asterix are very easily available. India has local language translations of Tintin and Asterix as well, example[1].
[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tintin+bengali&t=fpas&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tintin+bengali&t=fpas&iax=images&i...
Anecdotally the quality of the Asterix translations are pretty good, too, complete with the funny character names.
- chris_wot 3y agoDefinitely NOT scarce in Australia, though you won't find Tintin in Congo anywhere... in fact, even in the 1990s you couldn't find it.
- signal11 3y agoSorry, by “beyond those two” I meant “beyond Tintin and Asterix”, not “beyond the UK and India”. I’ve reworded my comment.
- z3phyr 3y agoI spent my recess in the school library reading Tintin and Asterix!
- wiether 3y agoI was born in northern France, spent my childhood reading "comics", visited the "comics museum" in Bruxelles multiple times and never heard of the Adventures of Jo and Zette before your comment. So I can understand why it's not well known in anglosaxon's countries.