Form(ul)ation of a novel narrative form: nineteenth-century pedagogues and the comics.

The article discusses one of the final presentations in a campaign of censorship that hindered the French comic-book industry for nearly 20 years after World War II. It is suggested that the periodical study created by members of the Children and teenager publications monitoring committee indiscriminately denounced comic books as the cause of moral corruption that threatened the young readers and also as a force that prohibited the young to accept the teaching provided at schools. It is inferred that two forces behind the said beliefs include the potential immortality of themes present in French comic books and the nature of the comic books as a narrative medium based on a largely pictorial delivery of information.