Constructions of a new comics readership through children’s material culture: the rise of comics for very young readers in France and Belgium.

Taking the Alain Van Passen comics magazine collection as its starting point, this project shows how comics for very young readers (less than 8 years of age, who are gradually acquiring reading skills) has been established, since 1925, as a growing category in comics publishing, coinciding with investments in children’s material culture, through the novelization, dramatization and animation of comics.