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Asterix (Astérix or Astérix le Gaulois [asteʁiks lə ɡolwa], "Asterix the Gaul") (also known as Asterix and Obelix in some adaptations or The Adventures of Asterix) is a French comic album series about a Gaulish village which, thanks to a magic potion that enhances strength, resists the forces of Julius Caesar's Roman Republic Army in a nonhistorical telling of the time after the Gallic Wars.
O.W. Comics was a short-lived Publishing House consisting of comic veteran, William_Woolfolk, who had worked for MLJ Magazines, Fawcett Comics and Marvel Comics, and John Gerard "Jack" Oxton, Sr., an Illustrator, Film Editor at Paramount News/Paramount Pictures in New York City, and from 1957-1969, he was also Local Union Head/Business Agent ...
Franco-Belgian comics, together with American and British comic books and Japanese manga, are one of the three main markets.The term is broad, and can be applied to all comics made by French and Belgian comics authors, all comics originally published by French and Belgian comics publishers, or all comics in the styles appearing in the Franco-Belgian comics magazines Tintin and Spirou, possibly ...
French comics adapted into films (2 C, 26 P) French-language comics (1 C, 4 P) G. Comics by Jean Giraud (8 P) French graphic novels (2 C, 49 P) L. Comics by ...
The most famous, prestigious and largest one is the "Festival international de la bande dessinée d'Angoulême" (English: "Angoulême International Comics Festival"), an annual festival begun in 1974, in Angoulême, France, and the format has been adopted in other European countries as well, unsurprisingly perhaps considering the popularity the ...
A French-language animated film, Corto Maltese, la cour secrète des arcanes adapting Corto Maltese in Siberia, was released in 2002. Also in 2002, Canal + produced a series of Corto Maltese adventures for television, adapting the stories The Ballad of the Salty Sea , Under the Sign of Capricorn , Celtic Tales and The Golden House of Samarkand .
From the 1970s and the "adult" turn of the comics, new publishing houses rose, especially in France, like Les Humanoïdes Associés, Glénat and Delcourt. [citation needed] In the 1990s, several new small independent publishers emerged, such as l'Association, Amok, and Fréon. While some of these new publishers gained popular success and ...
Comics portal Fictional characters that originated in French comics . This does not mean that they necessarily have that nationality in the comics, only that they were created by French comics writers and/or artists.