Comics at the Louvre

Yes, that Louvre: the famous museum in France, known to house works of untold importance and value, both monetary and artistic.

Fabrice Douar, who developed the show, is a lifelong lover of bandes dessinees (as comics are known en Francaise) and wanted to combine his "subversive love" and work. The exhibit showcases the first three comic books the Louvre Museum is publishing, including one about a pig/dog curator of a museum in the future. The exhibit is showing in the downstairs portion of what was the original moat, excavated in the 1980s. You can learn more about the exhibit and the comics titles in the Louvre's line from NPR.

While this may be the first time comics have been featured at the world-famous museum, it is not the first time sequential art has; sequential art is an ancient form - probably the very first. Furthermore, comics characters have been featured in exhibits there before, as well.

© C Harris Lynn, 2009