kindkit: Tintin with his arm around Captain Haddock (Tintin: embrace)
kindkit ([personal profile] kindkit) wrote2011-10-28 11:44 pm
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francophone comics

Reading Tintin has done a lot to de-rustify my French; I'd like to keep reading French, but I don't want to read Serious French Novels. I thought I might branch out into more comics as a start.

Wikipedia helpfully informs me that Blake and Mortimer and "many [other] Belgian comics have had . . . themes of confirmed bachelors living together." I've made a list of all the comics mentioned (Blake and Mortimer, Spirou and Fantasio [which doesn't look wildly appealing], and Tif and Tondu).

Anyone have other recs for French-language comics? I'm looking for things originally written in French, not translated into French. Good storytelling is primarily what I'm looking for; m/m slashiness is nice but not essential; actual queer content would be awesome. Recs for contemporary-ish comics, especially science fiction and fantasy, are extremely welcome.

And if you want to recommend sff novels in French, that'd be great too.

[personal profile] mayeve 2011-10-29 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
If you want something more contemporary and science fiction, there's the series Yoko Tsuno which was one of my favorites growing up. Here is the link to the wikipedia summary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Tsuno.

It's been twenty years since I've read them so I don't remember if they were any racist or sexist elements, but as a girl I thought it was cool that it was all about Yoko's adventures and that the focus was on her.