Don't forget the fascist-friendly elements of several of those American comics
Larry Send a noteboard - 02/12/2011 07:36:51 PM
A great many of those comics I knew, probably because they were adaptations of American comics, some of which were revived when I was growing up, like Flash Gordon.
Perhaps Belgians and Frenchmen of his generation would recognize some of those comics as well, not just Italians. But in the generations since that, the Franco-Belgian comics took off to such an extent that at least here, and I do think in most European countries, American comics (the superhero kind, at least) vanished off the radar, and only reappeared in the last decade or so under the influence of the movies (some of them were present in movie form before that, to be sure, but there was not a soul who read the comics).
The mirror to that is that Franco-Belgian comics are very obscure here, even the most famous ones barely draw attention. It's now the Japanese and the traditional comics houses in the US these days, or so it seems to me.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
Umberto Eco, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
- 30/11/2011 12:27:32 AM
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I saw an interview with Eco recently
- 30/11/2011 12:41:04 PM
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I have to agree with him - either this or Baudolino.
- 30/11/2011 06:48:01 PM
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Re: I have to agree with him - either this or Baudolino.
- 01/12/2011 08:37:39 AM
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I found his pop culture in Loana obscurer than the legends in Baudolino.
- 01/12/2011 09:05:50 PM
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Odd
- 01/12/2011 11:16:10 PM
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Or because you're old. *NM*
- 02/12/2011 08:29:32 AM
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Only 8 years or so older than you 
- 02/12/2011 08:41:48 AM
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Re: Only 8 years or so older than you
- 02/12/2011 08:43:13 AM
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- 02/12/2011 08:43:13 AM
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13, and what's your point? *NM*
- 02/12/2011 07:30:30 PM
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*NM*
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- 02/12/2011 07:32:15 PM
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Doesn't work that way
- 02/12/2011 07:34:03 PM
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Error
- 02/12/2011 07:41:52 PM
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I vehemently oppose your calling Larry "old"
- 02/12/2011 11:28:26 PM
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- 02/12/2011 11:29:23 PM
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I wonder if that'd lead to people carding you when you want to check out books from the library
- 03/12/2011 12:36:40 AM
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- 03/12/2011 07:43:59 AM
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I think at that time American comics were indeed relatively well-known in Europe.
- 02/12/2011 07:34:15 PM
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Don't forget the fascist-friendly elements of several of those American comics
- 02/12/2011 07:36:51 PM
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- 02/12/2011 11:21:36 PM
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Re: I found his pop culture in Loana obscurer than the legends in Baudolino.
- 02/12/2011 08:30:44 AM
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I'm considering reviewing all of his books over the next month or two
- 01/12/2011 02:06:35 PM
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