Comics, Weakly

I read some comics over the past couple weeks, weakly. I’ve decided to step down my Duolingo usage and instead spend that time reading comics in French — I really enjoy doing Duolingo, but I’m definitely feeling like I’m learning less now. So I thought I’d tackle a classic album by Lauzier — Chroniques de l’Ile Grande. And the reason I’m putting it that way is because Lauzier certainly piles the dialogue on — but incredibly enough, I found that I could pretty much read all of this. Slowly, though. This was an album I had in translation as a teenager, and I don’t quite remember what I thought about it? I remember thinking that the Lauzier albums were a bit hit or miss, but I bought them all, so I must have liked them. This is heavy, heavy satire about exploitation, racism, sexism and etc etc, and it’s also funny. And Lauzier manages to get a proper mood going in these stories. However: Usually when people go “well, they couldn’t publish that today”, they’re totally wrong… but the story…

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