Good conversation in response to this tweet about how American minstrel imagery had a long after-life in French comics (decades after such imagery had ceased to be pervasive in American cartooning. I had the same experience as Adam of being shocked as kid by this stuff.https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1301176652496502791 …
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One part of this story is the strong inter-play between American cartooning and other traditions in Europe & Japan. Cartoonists all over the world even in early 20th century very aware of other traditions and learning from them.
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In particular, there's a strong overlap in origins of Mad magazine & Asterix. Rene Goscinny, co-creator of Asterix, lived in New York in late 1940s-early 1950s & hung out with the future creator of Mad, Harvey Kurtzman. Here they are at French restaurant in NY in 1950 or 51.pic.twitter.com/6MRXdcr1MT
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A resonate photo because they were all obscure when it was taken but soon Kurtzman would helm Mad, Goscinny co-create Asterix & de Bevere co-create Lucky Luke. The overlap in sensibility was clean page design offset by abundance of small sight gags ("chicken fat" in Mad terms)pic.twitter.com/bM9KmbVnUK
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Replying to @HeerJeet @ben_towle
Great photo! Morris had already created Lucky Luke by this point (in 1946).
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Ah, for some reason I had late 1950s in my head for Luke.
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