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Comic books in France? They’re all the rage. (Photo by Paco Freire/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
COMIC CON?
Last week, the
New York Times reported that the biggest winners of the French federal government’s program to spur teens to indulge in culture seem to be makers of Japanese comics and graphic novels. Reactions to the news within France have exposed numerous fault lines between generations, classes, and political interests. But the most important aspect of the story for us is how ably it reflects a central existential dilemma of the art world in 2021.
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At a time of crisis, I had no support network. So I made my own Emily Kenway
At the start of 2019, I found myself in an A&E in east London with a high fever and struggling to breathe. But the symptoms weren’t my only problem. The woman behind the hospital check-in desk asked for my next of kin. Suddenly, I realised I had no name to give her. My mum, who’d raised me without a partner, was fighting for her life after a transplant, part of her gruelling cancer treatment. I was also single for the first time in a long time. I blinked back tears as I sent a message to a group of friends asking whether it was OK for me to give one of their contact details.