Twelve of France's leading comic strip artists designed the twelve stamps that male up France's 1988 “La Communication” booklet; each artist was also a Gran Prize winner from the Comic Strip Festival of Angoulême, France, from 1976 through 1987.
The first international comic strip gallery opened in Angoulême in 1974 and by 1987 its popularity was so wide-spread that over one hundred and eighty thousand visitors toured the gallery's impressive array of comic strip art.
Comic strips were long considered a “sub-literature,” but now this type of graphic expression is being studied in college courses and is recognized as having tremendous value as a teaching aid.
Today, children and adults alike can use this medium to study history, philosophy, literature and the Bible, as well as for the more traditional entertainment purposes. In France, as in many other counties around the world, there are a large number of quality publications on the market, able to satisfy the most diverse tastes and needs.
Mon Journal, the first story told in captioned pictures, was first published in France in 1887 under the signature of Christophe, the pseudonym for Georges Colomb.
Alain Saint-Ogan was the first to make systematic use of speech balloons in Zig and Puce in 1925. this event marked the true beginnings of the modern comic strip
The comic strip entered the adult world in the 1960s, allowing the artists more opportunity for self-expression.
Artists include: René Pellos; Jean-Marc Reiser; Marijac (Jacques Dumas); Fred (Othon Aristides); Jean Giraud (Moebius); Paul Gillon; Claire Bretecher; Jean-Claude Forest; Jean-Claude Mezieres; Jacques Tardi; Jacques Lob; Enki Bilal
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