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| | France-diplomatie [Label France, magazine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | If the United States is the home of the superhero and Japan that of the graphic film, France has always cultivated the comic strip, with its humour based on daily life or on the absurd. |
 | | His three-page comic stories are the quintessence of French humour, subverting their references to national ways and customs: he created a pastiche of folk dances and fairytales, caricatured our American fantasies, laid into the clichés of television and the questioning of early adolescence. |
 | | Marcel Gotlib then established two comic strip magazines which are still going today: LEcho des savanes, with Claire Bretécher, then Fluide glacial. |
| www.diplomatie.gouv.fr /label_France/56/gb/07.html (903 words) |
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