Posted by Peter Ceresole on March 09, 2006 at 22:05:54 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Cheers posted by Joy (Just Joy - no smart alec heading) on March 09, 2006 at 17:23:23:
Asterix in Britain- yes, the French names are very different, although based on the same principle. They are extremely funny, right through the series.
Now our girls are in families of their own, I mostly read them in supermarkets in Geneva, while Anne shops... There's a Belgian/French tradition of brilliant 'graphic novels' that started with Tintin and is still flourishing in the Francophone world in a way that it doesn't in the Anglo world. That's despite the USAnian tradition which is very fine- but Robert Crumb however brilliant doesn't have the same universal appeal.