Early 20th Century comic strips Quebec comics

albert chartier s onésime longest-running comic strip in quebec. replaced popular american strip captain , kids when first appeared

québécois cartoonists unsuccessfully propose number of strips compete american strips dominated sundays , dailies. native quebec presence on pages become more dominant after 1940, however, introduction of war exchange conservation act, restricted import of foreign strips. comic strips disappeared more-or-less dailies during world war i, , didn t return until arthur lemay revived timothée number of years starting in 1920. weekend supplements grew, many 40 pages, filled translations of american strips, well-distributed growing syndicates, strips france. native strips continued appear, however, , in 1935 albert chartier made cartooning debut strip called bouboule. in 1943, created comical character onésime, strip have longest run of in quebec, , replaced captain , kids when first appeared. starred naïve , clumsy country person , plump , authoritarian wife.

while adventure strip flourished in 1930s, papers in quebec unwilling pay local artists more pay syndicated american strip, made hard local artists survive, due economies of scale made cheaper them buy american strips. few commissioned propaganda works , adaptations of novels of homeland appeared. rodolphe , odette vincent, under banner of Éditions vincent, produced adaptations of adventure novels managed sell papers, , collected albums quebec Éditions de l a. b. after end of world war ii, however, Éditions vincent found unable compete flood of american comics returned after trade restrictions loosened. longest-running of adventure strips les aventures de robert et roland roberto wilson, debuted in 1956 , lasted until 1965.

paulin lessard, @ age of sixteen, had les deux petits nains published in le progrès du saguenay in 1947 , 1948. first science fiction bdq, 2 brothers few centimetres tall, endowed enormous strength, , met people of other minuscule races.