Manga is an incredibly popular and widely-known phenomenon in the world of graphic novels and comic books. At our library the collection of English translations of Japanese comics takes up most of a wall in the teen department and check out often. Although they’re not as popular as Japanese comics, and they don’t have their own wall at the library, a surprising number of popular comic books are French (French comics are called bandes dessinées or BDs). Some of the most well-known French comics are the Asterix the Gaul strips by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo and Hergé’s Adventures of Tintin, but did you know the popular Smurfs cartoons were also based on French comics by Belgian artist Peyo?
Check out these French comics at the library:
Children’s
The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé
Castle in the Stars by Alex Alice
Chick & Chickie Play All Day! by Claude Ponti
The ElseWhere Chronicles by Bannister
A Goofy Guide to Penguins by Jean-Luc and Philippe Coudray
Hotel Strange by Florian Ferrier
The Philemon Adventures by Fred
Silly Lilly in What Will I Be Today? by Agnès Rosenstiehl
Tom’s Midnight Garden by Edith
Teen
Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu
Castle in the Stars by Alex Alice
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec by Jacques Tardi
Kaput & Zösky by Lewis Trondheim
Persephone by Loic Locatelli-Kournwsky
Robinson Crusoe by Christophe Lemoine
William and the Lost Spirit by Gwen de Bonneval
Adult
About Betty’s Boob by Vero Cazot
Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi
Drawn Together by Aline Kominsky-Crumb
Josephine Baker by José-Louis Bocquet
Love in Vain: Robert Johnson 1911-1938 by J.M. Dupont
Marx: An Illustrated Biography by Corinne Maier
Robert Moses: The Master Builder of New York City by Pierre Christin
Weapons of Mass Diplomacy by Abel Lanzac[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
