manga - MSU Dept of History

The French and Belgians have always embraced the comics medium as artClaude Beylie (French film scholar) argued that comics deserved to be held as the “ninth art”putting it on even footing with television and seven other arts by Italian film critic RicciottoCanudoIn the Franco-Belgian tradition, comics are bande dessinée (“drawn strips”) - also referred toas BDStripverhalen (“strip stories”) in Dutch27