During this time, a government ran program, the Writers' War Board, became heavily involved in what would be published in comics. "The Writers' War Board used comic books to shape popular perceptions of race and ethnicity..."[43] Not only were they using comic books as a means of recruiting all Americans, they were also using it as propaganda to "[construct] a justification for race-based hatred of America's foreign enemies."[43] The Writers' War Board created comics books that were meant to "[promote] domestic racial harmony".[43] However, "these pro-tolerance narratives struggled to overcome the popular and widely understood negative tropes used for decades in American mass culture...".[43] However, they were not accomplishing this agenda within all of their comics.
Marvel Decades en 2019 chez Panini Comics
Asian characters faced some of the same treatment in comics as black characters did. They were dehumanized and the narrative being pushed was that they were "incompetent and subhuman."[43] "A 1944 issue of the United States Marines included a narrative entitled The Smell of the Monkeymen. The story depicts Japanese soldiers as simian brutes whose sickening body odor betrays their concealed locations."[43] Chinese characters received the same treatment. "By the time the United States entered WWII, negative perceptions of Chinese were an established part of mass culture...."[43] However, concerned that the Japanese could use America's anti-Chinese material as propaganda they began "to present a more positive image of America's Chinese allies..."[43] Just as they tried to show better representation for Black people in comics they did the same for Asian people. However, "Japanese and Filipino characters were visually indistinguishable. Both groups have grotesque buckteeth, tattered clothing, and bright yellow skin."[43] "Publishers depicted America's Asian allies through derogatory images and language honed over the preceding decades."[43] Asian characters were previously portrayed as, "ghastly yellow demons".[41] During WWII, "[every] major superhero worth his spandex devoted himself to the eradication of Asian invaders."[41] There was "a constant relay race in which one Asian culture merely handed off the baton of hatred to another with no perceptible changes in the manner in which the characters would be portrayed."[41]
The content of Action, another title aimed at children and launched in the mid-1970s, became the subject of discussion in the House of Commons. Although on a smaller scale than similar investigations in the US, such concerns led to a moderation of content published within British comics. Such moderation never became formalized to the extent of promulgating a code, nor did it last long. The UK has also established a healthy market in the reprinting and repackaging of material, notably material originating in the US. The lack of reliable supplies of American comic books led to a variety of black-and-white reprints, including Marvel's monster comics of the 1950s, Fawcett's Captain Marvel, and other characters such as Sheena, Mandrake the Magician, and the Phantom. Several reprint companies became involved in repackaging American material for the British market, notably the importer and distributor Thorpe & Porter. Marvel Comics established a UK office in 1972. DC Comics and Dark Horse Comics also opened offices in the 1990s. The repackaging of European material has occurred less frequently, although The Adventures of Tintin and Asterix serials have been successfully translated and repackaged in softcover books. The number of European comics available in the UK has increased in the last two decades. The British company Cinebook, founded in 2005, has released English translated versions of many European series.
Nous aurons donc le plaisir de vous accueillir le Samedi 4 Mai 2019 pour une nouvelle édition de cette journée consacrée aux comics américains et qui fait de plus en plus la part belle aux éditeurs Français puisque Bliss Comics, Casterman, Comics Zone et son sketchbook façon Mars Attack, Delcourt, les nouveaux venus Komics Initiative et Kinaye , Glénat, HI Comics, Monsieur Toussaint Louverture pour une avant-première de fou, Snorgleux Comics, Urban Comics seront tous de la partie avec du sacré contenu et le grand retour de Panini Comics comme vous allez le constater ci dessous
Tremblez, mortels ! Vous allez explorer les recoins les plus terrifiants de l'univers Marvel, avec la totalité des aventures des héros horrifiques des années 70 ! Le Zombi, Frère Vaudou, la Momie, le Colosse Vivant, le Golem et bien d'autres... ils sont tous là ! Et si ça ne suffit pas, leur route va croiser celle de héros réputés tels que le Docteur Strange, Hulk ou encore les Avengers ! Dans la droite ligne des très populaires albums MARVEL OMNIBUS consacrés à Dracula, nous vous proposons un tour d'horizon, en plus de 1300 pages, de la veine horrifique qui battait fort chez les fans de comics dans les années 70. Avec un grand nombre d'inédits ou d'épisodes rarement publiés.
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