{"id":22663,"date":"2015-11-30T20:22:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T19:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=22663"},"modified":"2017-10-24T13:22:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T11:22:42","slug":"zep-sur-lemonde-fr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/zep-sur-lemonde-fr\/","title":{"rendered":"Zep sur Lemonde.fr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Les bandes dessine\u00e9s sont tr\u00e8s\u00a0populaires dans le monde francophone. On dit m\u00eame que les bandes dessine\u00e9s sont uniquement Belges d’origine.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Comics are very popular in the Francophone world. Some people even say that comics are uniquely Belgian. The list of French-language comics is indeed impressive: Tintin, Babar, the Smurfs, Lucky Luke, Asterix, Titeuf, and many more are originally French, Swiss, or Franco-Belgian.<\/p>\n

Zep is one of the most well-known comics creator alive today. Originally from Switzerland, Zep created the character Titeuf in 1993. Titeuf is an eight year old boy with a cowlick, and readers follow around on his adventures. The name Titeuf either derives from the French expression\u00a0t\u00eate d’oeuf<\/em>\u00a0(egg head) or the verlan form of\u00a0petite fete\u00a0<\/em>(little party). As of 2008,\u00a0Titeuf <\/em>sold 1.8 million copies per year and remains the best-selling comic in France.<\/p>\n

Zep now has a blog<\/a> on Lemonde.fr. Every week, Zep published another comic on his blog, called “What a wonderful world!”, that deals with recent\u00a0current events. Oftentimes the cartoonist himself appears in these comic strips.<\/p>\n

The description of Zep’s blog is as follows:\u00a0L\u2019auteur de Titeuf pose un regard sans concession sur l\u2019actualit\u00e9 sociopolitique de son nombril. Il s\u2019interroge sur la vanit\u00e9 des choses et s\u2019engage pour un monde plus juste, sans guerre, sans peur de l\u2019\u00e9tranger et sans choux de Bruxelles.\u00a0<\/em>(Rough translation: The author of\u00a0Titeuf\u00a0<\/em>contemplates, without concession, socio-political events of the day from his own position. He questions\u00a0the vanity of things and commits himself to a more just world, without war, without fear of the foreign\/foreigners, and without Brussel sprouts.)<\/p>\n

Zep’s cartoons are poignant and heartfelt–and, as you can see from the description above, often meld the silly with the serious. His recent cartoons have dealt with the Paris attacks of November 13th and global warming (for the Cop21 beginning this week in Paris). “Visite m\u00e9dicale” imagines a sick world going to the doctor to find out what is wrong. “Vendredi 13” tells the Paris attackers that they will never win because, while they wanted to destroy France, they only created an “army” of fellow humans (une arme\u00e9 de fr\u00e9res humains<\/em>). Check out these cartoons and more at his site on Lemonde.fr:\u00a0http:\/\/zepworld.blog.lemonde.fr\/<\/p>\n

Post the titles of your favorite comic strips in the comments below!<\/p>\n

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Les bandes dessine\u00e9s sont tr\u00e8s\u00a0populaires dans le monde francophone. On dit m\u00eame que les bandes dessine\u00e9s sont uniquement Belges d’origine.\u00a0 Comics are very popular in the Francophone world. Some people even say that comics are uniquely Belgian. The list of French-language comics is indeed impressive: Tintin, Babar, the Smurfs, Lucky Luke, Asterix, Titeuf, and many…<\/p>\n

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