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Home to Tintin and Smurfs, Belgium looks to reinvigorate comic industry

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Home to Tintin and Smurfs, Belgium looks to reinvigorate comic industry It may now be dominated by American superheros and Japanese manga, but the comic book industry was once associated with no country more than Belgium. Through much of the last century, this small, Western European nation played an outsized…

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French academic faces backlash after his satire compares Papa Smurf to Josef Stalin

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PARIS – Just in time for Global Smurfs Day and a Smurfs movie in 3-D comes a little blue book from a French academic that has some fans of the sock-topped comic book characters seeing red. Antoine Bueno, who lectures at the high-brow Paris Institute of Political Studies, thought he…

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