Idéologie marxiste et Antiquité dans les bandes dessinées de Vaillant et Pif-Gadget – De Spartacus à Taranis

Abstract

This study proposes to examine, through the analysis of comic strips illustrating Antiquity, the stakes and the integration of different regimes of historicity, such as the Resistance or the struggle against the colonizer, which are carried by the comic imagery of magazines of communist obedience from Vaillant at the end of the 1940s to Pif Gadget at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s. How do the related artistic influences inherent to the stories and fictions deployed around Spartacus permeate the hero and how, conversely, does the ideological marking of the newspaper cross over to colour these ancient representations? In the end, this work shows that if the communist magazine is committed, at the turn of the 1960s-1970s, it does not seem to deliberately insert Marxist markings or opinions into the heart of the historical comics dealing with Antiquity, following the example of Spartacus or Taranis.

Keywords

• Pif Gadget
• Spartacus
• Taranis
• comic book
• history