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Until the 1970s, French-language comics (a term including comics created in both France and in Belgium) were really divided into three almost entirely separate industries: A) Comic strips than ran in the newspapers and were almost entirely aimed at an adult (i.e.: grown up) market. B) The socially respectable mainstream comics aimed at children and published in weekly magazines, such as Spirou, Tintin, Vaillant (retitled Pif, and Pilote. These published only G-rated cartoony or realistic adventures, humorous stories, and virtually no science fiction, a genre deemed too intense for children. C) A myriad of cheaper, monthly or bimonthly magazines, sold to satisfy the demand for harder-edged, more violent, more fantastic, American-style stories. The publishers of these magazines (Aredit/Artima, Imperia,  Lug, Aventures & Voyages, etc.) either translated American, Italian and Spanish material, or produced their own French-made stories. Naturally, parents and educators frowned upon these magazines. A law was passed in France in July 1949 to create a censorship committee to monitor youth magazines. Originally published in a large-size format and in color, most of these magazines were, as a result of censorship, forced to go to a pocket-size, black & white format, hence their name, the petits formats [small formats]. TIMELINE FEATURED CHARACTERS: ADELE BLANC-SEC ADVENTURES IN SPACE (AVENTURES DE L'ESPACE) THE POPULAR AEROMEDON (L'AEROMEDON POPULAIRE) ALAIN CARDAN ALAIN LANDIER ARABELLE THE LAST MERMAID ARSENE LUPIN ASTER ATOMAS MADAME ATOMOS BARBARELLA Homage to Regino BERNAD BIBI FRICOTIN THE B.I.D.E. FILES (LES DOSSIERS DU B.I.D.E.) BLACK BOY BLAKE & MORTIMER THE BLUE HAWK (L'EPERVIER BLEU) BOB LANCE BOB MORANE Homage to Rene BRANTONNE BRAVO (FLASH GORDON & CAPTAIN MARVEL JR.) THE BRONZE GLADIATOR (LE GLADIATEUR DE BRONZE) CAPRICORNE THE CASTAWAYS IN TIME (LES NAUFRAGES DU TEMPS) THE CAT (LE CHAT) MONSIEUR CHOC THE CONQUERORS OF SPACE (LES CONQUERANTS DE L'ESPACE) CORALINE COSMO DAN COOPER DARK FLYER (LE PILOTE NOIR) DICK DEMON DURGA RANI, QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE EPSILON FANTAX FANTOMAS FANTOMETTE FELINA FRANKENSTEIN FULGUROS DOCTOR FU-MANCHU FURAX FUTUROPOLIS GALAX THE GREY CLAW (LA GRIFFE GRISE) GUN GALLON HARRY DICKSON HOMICRON HYPER X JACQUES FLASH JALEB THE TELEPATH JAYDE JEAN D'ARMOR JEFF SULLIVAN, MAN OF BRASS JODELLE JOHNNY SPEED KABUR KAZA THE MARTIAN KIM DEVIL KIT KAPPA KRONOS LARRY CANNON LONE SLOANE Isaac ASIMOV's LUCKY STARR LUC ORIENT MAGIC TOM MALINBOURNE OF CAMELOT MAX TORNADO THE METAL MAN (L'HOMME DE METAL) MR. MAGELLAN MIKROS MISTER X MORGANE MOTOMAN MOZAM MUSTANG THE NAVIGATORS OF INFINITY (LES NAVIGATEURS DE L'INFINI) NEPTUNE NESTOR BURMA NIC & MINO OCEANIA OLIVIER RAMEAU ONKR THE ABOMINABLE ICEMAN THE OTHER (L'AUTRE) OTOMOX, THE ROBOT MASTER PATRICK MAUDICK THE PATROL OF THE DEPTHS (LA PATROUILLE DES PROFONDEURS) PEGG PHENIX PHOTONIK  THE PIONEERS OF HOPE (LES PIONNIERS DE L'ESPERANCE) PRAVDA THE OVERDRIVER QUBE (PETIT CUBE) RADAR RADARIUS RAFFINGTON EVENT RAKAR REX Homage to G. RI ROCAMBOLE ROC METEOR RORK ROULETABILLE COMTE DE SAINT-GERMAIN SALVATOR SATANAX SATANIK (a.k.a. KILLING) SHERLOCK HOLMES SIBILLA SILVER SHADOW THE SKBLLLZ MISTER SONG STANY BEULE STARLOCK SUBMERMAN SUPER BOY SUPERDINGUE SUPERHERMAN SUPERMATOU TAROU TENEBRAX THORKAEL THE TIME BRIGADE (LA BRIGADE TEMPORELLE) TINTIN VS. BATMAN TIRIEL TITAN TOM BOLAH TOM X UHU-MAN THE U RAY (LE RAYON U) VALERIAN VINCENT LARCHER & OLYMPIO WAKI WAMPUS WAR AGAINST EARTH (GUERRE À LA TERRE) XING & XOT ZEMBLA ZIG & PUCE ZOLT ZAM JOE (TV ANIMATION by Jean IMAGE)

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CLICK ON THE BANNER ABOVE TO VIEW A GALLERY OF CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION STORIES ILLUSTRATED BY THE BEST FRENCH ARTISTS. FEATURED ARTISTS: Homage to René BRANTONNE Jack VANCE's TSCHAI (a.k.a. Planet of Adventure) ill. by CAZA E.R. BURROUGHS' PELLUCIDAR ill. by Michel DESIMON William Hope HODGSON ill. by Philippe DRUILLET Catherine L. MOORE'S SHAMBLEAU ill. by J.-C. FOREST Homage to G. RI

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SOURCES TOP 20 FRENCH-LANGUAGE COMICS This page provides an illustrated, annotated list of the best French-language comics ever published. SHADOWMEN: Heroes and Villains of French Pulp Fiction by J-M. & R. Lofficier; Cover by Andrew Paquette From Black Coat Press, $19.95, 6x9 trade pb, 306 pages. CONTAINS: biographies, fictional biographies, filmographies, timelines, an index and 150 black & white illustrations. TO ORDER CLICK HERE SHADOWMEN 2: Heroes and Villains of French Comics by J-M. & R. Lofficier; Cover by Andrew Paquette From Black Coat Press, $20.95, 6x9 trade pb, 320 pages. CONTAINS: biographies, story synopses, bibliographies, an index and 340 black & white illustrations. TO ORDER CLICK HERE ORDER JEAN-MARC'S FRENCH SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HORROR AND PULP FICTION ENCYCLOPEDIA (800 pages, $95) from AMAZON.COM or McFARLAND direct!

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RELATED SITES Acknowledgements: Many thanks to Henri Armagnat, Claude Aziza, Alain Beyrand, Win Eckert, Philippe Ethuin, Brett Fawcett, Jacques Garin, Patrick de Jacquelot, Rick Lai, Jean-Marc Lainé, Jean-Marc Léger, Marc Madouraud, Xavier Mauméjean, Vincent Mollet, Jean-Michel Monnier, Thierry Mornet, Gérard Morvan, Jess Nevins, Marcel Pfefferlé, Serge Plenier, Philippe Radé, Daniel Riche, André-François Ruaud, Gérard Thomassian, Dominik Vallet, and Marc-Etienne Vargenau. Wampus art by Ladronn & Luciano Bernasconi. Cat art by/© Jean-Marc Lofficier. French Wold Newton Girl art by/© René Brantonne. Elric art by/© Philippe Druillet/Michael Moorcock. Barbarella art by/© J.-C. Forest. Website Contents © 2011 Jean-Marc Lofficier. All characters & illustrations © their respective copyright holders. FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of cultural issues pertaining to academic research. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information about Fair Use. Analyse juridique à l'intention des tiers français et belges.

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