Franco-Belgian comic

Franco-Belgian comics (French: bande dessinée franco-belge; Dutch: Franco-Belgische strip) are comics that are created for French-Belgian (Wallonia) and/or French readership. These countries have a long tradition in comics and comic books, where they are known as BDs, an abbreviation of bandes dessinées (literally drawn strips) in French and stripverhalen (literally strip stories) or simply strips in the Dutch-speaking part of Europe, the first non-Francophone territories where the Franco-Belgian comics became a major force on their comic scenes from 1945 onward, brought forth by the bi-lingual nature of Belgium.

Among the most popular Franco-Belgian comics that have achieved international fame are The Adventures of Tintin (Hergé), Gaston Lagaffe (Franquin), Asterix (Goscinny & Uderzo), Lucky Luke (Morris) and The Smurfs (Peyo) in the humoristically drawn genres, whereas such bande dessinées as Blueberry (Charlier & Giraud, of the latter also the body of work created under the pseudonym "Moebius"), Thorgal (van Hamme & Rosiński), XIII (van Hamme & Vance), as well as the various creations of Hermann have done particularly well internationally in the realistically drawn genres – albeit not all of them necessarily in the English-speaking world.

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