The Comic Strip Hits 100

The Comic Strip Hits 100

6.3/10
1h39min
1996Documentary

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American novelist Jérôme Charyn explores the comic strip's artistic significance through interviews with influential creators, highlighting its connections to other art forms.

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The Comic Strip Hits 100 consecrates the comic strip as a real form of art. The heart of the film is based on the relations between the comic strip and the other arts : painting, sculpture, literature, and cinema. Between meetings and interviews with the genre's masters : Morris, Moebius, Druillet, Schuiten, Théo van den Boogaard, Frank Pé... The Comic Strip Hits 100 shows us, with thematical and chronological sequences, different sides of the comic strip world, presented by the American novelist Jérôme Charyn.