Even in this tablet age, my kids love reading "Le Journal de Mickey". It's a bit expensive to get it in Canada.
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my mind BD are European (more or less Franco-Belgian) comics books, distinct from 'comics', which are American style superhero stories. Just like manga is a separate category.
If someone from the US cares to join in, are there counterexamples to this, as in, widely known American comics that do not revolve around superheroes? Calvin&Hobbes comes to mind, for example. Any others?
Aren't calvin&hobbes stories just a few panels (4-5) each? It's a bit different from what I would call a "BD" (a single story making up the whole book, or sometimes 1-2-page stories).
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#13Even in this tablet age, my kids love reading "Le Journal de Mickey". It's a bit expensive to get it in Canada.
I think I have stacks of a couple years of "Le journal de Mickey" subscriptions somewhere. I also liked a lot "Mickey Parade géant" !
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#14I had a similar childhood, always with the nose in the books (no BD or comics for some reason), except we couldn’t afford to buy books so it was all library. Only four books were allowed at a time so I would read my four SF books and my sister her four horse books and then we’d swap. Our parents needed to tell us to “stop ready and go outside and play”.
For a while there was no library but you could put a request in at the train station and then pick up your books at the station the next day (and return your read ones). This was less than satisfactory as there was no way to browse.
We had the same problem with our kiddo (reading in bed, reading in the bath, reading outside) but when some sort of punishment was required it was easy to declare a brief Lesenverbot.
It’s much easier today as we can afford to buy as many books as we desire.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my mind BD are European (more or less Franco-Belgian) comics books, distinct from 'comics', which are American style superhero stories. Just like manga is a separate category.
If someone from the US cares to join in, are there counterexamples to this, as in, widely known American comics that do not revolve around superheroes? Calvin&Hobbes comes to mind, for example. Any others?
Tons of disney, richie rich, archie etc, though perhaps not sold in the USA (pretty common in Europe and SE Asia) but are pretty American!
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
If someone from the US cares to join in, are there counterexamples to this, as in, widely known American comics that do not revolve around superheroes? Calvin&Hobbes comes to mind, for example. Any others?
Aren't calvin&hobbes stories just a few panels (4-5) each? It's a bit different from what I would call a "BD" (a single story making up the whole book, or sometimes 1-2-page stories).
Calvin & Hobbes definitely fits. Some European BDs are (or were) also published as strips in journals. It’s true that strips are not as common as in the UK or the US, but they are not that different from most short stories BDs. They are not a separate category like mangas or comics are.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my mind BD are European (more or less Franco-Belgian) comics books, distinct from 'comics', which are American style superhero stories. Just like manga is a separate category.
If someone from the US cares to join in, are there counterexamples to this, as in, widely known American comics that do not revolve around superheroes? Calvin&Hobbes comes to mind, for example. Any others?
What makes Disney comics singular is that a lot of them are authored by European artists and have the distinct BD style.
For instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Duck_in_comics goes over this a bit.
Also Picsou Magazine > Journal de Mickey. There I said it.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
If someone from the US cares to join in, are there counterexamples to this, as in, widely known American comics that do not revolve around superheroes? Calvin&Hobbes comes to mind, for example. Any others?
What makes Disney comics singular is that a lot of them are authored by European artists and have the distinct BD style. For instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Duck_in_comics goes over this a bit. Also Picsou Magazine > Journal de Mickey. There I said it.
How could I forget Don Rosa, who even occupies a few slots in my shelf..?