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France - Comics’ foreign roots

Superman and Asterix have more in common than meets the eye, according to a new exhibit at Paris’ Immigration History Museum. Comic sketches and magazines from 1913 to the present show how comic books the world over were shaped by the immigrant story, from French Asterix’s “foreign” Polish and Italian authors, to American Superman’s Eastern European co-creators.

Drawing on 500 sketches and documents from 117 artists, the exhibit that opened on Wednesday shows how immigrants on society’s fringes were attracted to the subculture of comics.

“Superman, from planet Krypton ... is faced with the feeling of being in exile,” curator Helene Bouillon said.




 

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