Le BD

Many comic addicts, franco-philes, or former immersion kids are probably already familiar with the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées, or BDs for short. The BDs industry is so huge here that my roommate was shocked when I told her that Canadians in general aren't that into it. That being said, North Americans might be familiar with Tintin (the adventures of a young man, his little white dog, and a captain with a black beard), or Les aventures d'Astérix et Obélix (a sometimes anachronistic account of the adventures of a Gallic period Laurel and Hardy), and maybe Lucky Luke (a sheriff in the American Wild West, French-style).

Les BDs, however, are not just for kids, adults go nuts for them here and you can buy them everywhere from specialty shops to Carrefour. For the uninitiated, wifflepedia that sh*t or if you are in France, just drop by your local library which should have a BD section. BDs are really one of the greatest ways to improve your French, it's not Molière but often you'll find every day expressions and vocabulary.

On a final note, he's not really a BDs artist but I have to gratuitously mention my personal favourite French drawer Sempé because not only did he illustrate my favourite childhood French immersion memory, Le Petit Nicolas, but his cartoons are just the best. However, the author of Le Petit Nicolas is Goscinny, who is a BD guy and wrote, among other things, the Astérix series.

Image source:
http://www.amnistiacatalunya.org/edu/humor/edu/imatges/sempe.GIF