{"id":5818,"date":"2010-09-21T11:31:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T15:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=5818"},"modified":"2010-09-21T11:31:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T15:31:47","slug":"comics-enriched-their-lives-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=5818","title":{"rendered":"Comics Enriched Their Lives! #17"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I\u2019ve started to wonder whether what I read as a child wasn\u2019t more important. [&#8230;] And then there was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lambiek.net\/magazines\/vaillant.htm\">Pif le chien<\/a>, a comic book published by Editions Vaillant and sponsored by the Communist Party. I realize now when I reread it that there was a Communist bent to many of Pif\u2019s adventures. For example, a prehistoric man would bring down the local sorcerer in single combat and explain to the tribe that they didn\u2019t need a sorcerer and that there was no need to fear thunder. The series was very innovative and of exceptional quality.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014French novelist Michel Houellebecq, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6040\/the-art-of-fiction-no-206-michel-houellebecq\">interviewed<\/a> in <em>The Paris Review<\/em> No. 194<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve started to wonder whether what I read as a child wasn\u2019t more important. [&#8230;] And then there was Pif le chien, a comic book published by Editions Vaillant and sponsored by the Communist Party. I realize now when I reread it that there was a Communist bent to many of Pif\u2019s adventures. For example, a prehistoric man would bring down the local sorcerer in single combat and explain to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[264,902,1057],"class_list":["post-5818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-comics-enriched-their-lives","tag-michel-houellebecq","tag-propaganda"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}