Project: Constructions of a new comics readership through children’s material culture: the rise of comics for very young readers in France and Belgium.

2019-11-01 – 2024-08-31

Abstract

Taking the Alain Van Passen comics magazine collection as its starting point, this project shows how comics for very young readers (less than 8 years of age, who are gradually acquiring reading skills) has been established, since 1925, as a growing category in comics publishing, coinciding with investments in children’s material culture, through the novelization, dramatization and animation of comics.