This book aims to shed new light on the specificities of French comic books, or . For many decades, this form of expression has enjoyed the particular status of an art, the ninth (or ), and has been celebrated in the media, displayed in museums and galleries, endorsed and sustained by the government, taught at school, and studied at university. In France, the renewed symbolic value of as the has reached new heights with with the declaration of 2020 as the “Year of Comics” by the Minister of Culture. weiterlesen