| Sumario: | In the 1980s, Farid Boudjellal, José Jover and Larbi Mechkour published "Aziz Bricolo," a humor-based comics series, in Pif, a children's periodical associated with the French Communist party. The series marked a postcolonial turn in French comics featuring multicultural groups of children as protagonists, a genre with a history reaching far back into the colonial period. "Aziz Bricolo" broke with the previous dominant paradigm, in which white middle-class characters were the main protagonists, while the history and cultural heritage of their sidekicks of color were often erased through assimilation. The technological wizardry, humanism, and good humor of Aziz Bricolo, the series' primary character, constitute him as a young superhero and empower him to defend the disadvantaged, and to foster harmonious relations between different sociocultural or ethnic groups in postcolonial France, in clever and amusing ways.
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