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Volume 7, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2050-9790
  • E-ISSN: 2050-9804

Abstract

This article looks at important French comics and graphic novels from the small but highly influential tradition of French science fiction in order to assess their distinctive formal and narrative contributions to the genre. Taking cues from theoretical definitions of formulated by Thierry Groenstein and Thierry Smolderen, it identifies specific ways two major works, and , reshaped the narrative range and scope of French sci-fi comics and graphic novels and recast their artistic possibilities. We also draw comparisons to . The ways in which cityscapes are depicted in each serve as the privileged focus for measuring the similarities and differences among these works, both ideologically and formalistically.

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