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Sep 1, 2013
Comics in French
The European Bande Dessinée in Context
Summary
Subject envy is a chronic problem for me as a scholar and reader and hosting this podcast nourishes this envy each month. Reading Laurence Grove's Comics in French: The European Bande Dessinée in Context (New York: Berghahn Books, 2010; Paperback edition, 2013) certainly inspired this "I wish I worked on this!" feeling for me. Grove's overview of the longue duree of French comics/bande dessinée is the product of both the author's own lifelong appreciation for the genre and his scholarly commitment to reading these artifacts historically as significant expressions of, and contributions to, francophone culture.
Drawing on a wildly impressive archive of images + text, Comics in French offers readers a way in to the varieties of BD past and present. The book is a rich source of information about the technical aspects and history of the bande dessinée across centuries. It also offers engaging analysis and examples of the ways the form can and should be read in terms of some of the most significant cultural issues and debates of the twentieth (and now twenty-first) century. Fans of Astérix, Tintin, as well as Roland Barthes, will all find much to enjoy and think about in this new paperback edition.
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Roxanne Panchasi
Roxanne Panchasi is an Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada who specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century France and empire. She is the founding host of New Books in French Studies, a channel launched in 2013.
