I like it. I’m just not quite sure I get the cover of Thursday’s Libération of Paris, France.
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The headline for the main story — superimposted on that blimp-looking airplane in the foreground — says:
The U.S. president launches campaign
Obama 2
I can’t get a decent translation out of Google for the bit across the top. David Sullivan of the Philadelphia Inquirer — who tipped me off about this — thinks it says something about the paper being illustrated like a comic today. Possibly, all of it.
If that’s the case, I’d love to get my hands on some inside page PDFs.
At the bottom right is a refer to the books page.
The front page is from the Newseum. Of course.
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UPDATE – 8:30 p.m.
Gerri Berendzen of the Quincy (Ill.) Herald-Whig tells us:
I think a rough translation is:
Today everything in comic books (or comic format).
I looked at the second and third pages online and the cover made even less sense. But it does make me think of Betty Boop.
[The refer at the top is for] a supplement for the Festival International de la Bande Dessinee (or BD), which starts today. Too bad I can’t go.
Gerri sent me a link where I could see low-rez samples of just a few inside pages. This is today’s pages two and three, obviously containing the U.S. politics story:
The “books page” I mentioned earlier, however, is where the comics motif comes into play. Evidently.
The “page” is actually a section. Here’s the cover:
And here are the first couple of inside pages:
Very interesting…
I think a rough translation is Today everything in comic books (or comic format). I looked at the second and third pages online and the cover made even less sense. But it does make me think of Betty Boop
It’s a supplement for the Festival International de la Bande Dessinee (or BD), which starts today. Too bad I can’t go.