Correction. People in North America DO like French Comics. Certain PARTS of North America like French Comics. The United STATES "hates" and discriminates against French comics. Canada has many French citizens and LOVES French tomes and comics! That's part of North America whether people want to acknowledge it or not. There are even stores in Canada, such as the famous Labyrinth Art Comic Shop, which specializes in stocking and selling French Tomes and Asian art books equally, to the point of not even bothering to specialize in comics from the United States. And I can't help but agree with that sentiment, considering how SHITTY the artwork in current comics in the U.S. is compared to current story and art of comics from France. They are clearly superior to U.S. comics, especially most current ones with rare exceptions.
If there WERE shops in the United States that were modeled after Labyrinth up in Toronto, who knows. French comics might rival manga in popularity. On an international level France (especially locally) already DOES closely follow the U.S. and Japan in terms of sales and popularity worldwide.
Except in France, it's more purely about art and story in comics than anywhere else in the world, INCLUDING Japan! Which is a country HEAVILY influenced by France.
Viva La France!
However, it is painfully obvious French culture isn't popular in the United States BECAUSE OF RACISM, Xenophobia, and DISCRIMINATION.
What a sad state of affairs the U.S. is in...that they can't appreciate a culture that transcends their own on numerous levels. ESPECIALLY COMICS!
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