The European Bande Dessinée in Context
by
Laurence Grove
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Whereas in English-speaking countries comics are for children or adults ‘who should know better’, in France and Belgium the form is recognized as the ‘Ninth Art’ and follows in the path of poetry, architecture, painting and cinema. The bande dessinée [comic strip] has its own national institutions,...