«Being a funnies maker» : cartoonists in France and in Belgium from 1945 to 1968 ; "Travailler dans les Petits Mickeys" : les dessinateurs-illustrateurs en France et en Belgique de 1945 à 1968

This dissertation documents the cartoonist’s trade in France and francophone Belgium from 1945 to 1968. Although this career has been traditionally addressed through the prism of comic art or political cartooning, this study based on a prosopographic approach and the analysis of 400 professional trajectories demonstrates that in the 1950s and 1960s, the trade was a multi-faceted one, in so far as cartoonists were equally likely to produce illustration art, political cartoons, or comics. Their dependence on the market typically brought them to rely upon multiple accounts and graphic techniques,... Mehr ...