Paris 2024: 2. Fun and Illuminating Comics 1964-2024 At Centre Pompidou

Manga—comics or graphic novels from Japan—touches everything. It considers nothing sacred. Such is the reality that hits me at the current exhibit we attended at the Centre Pompidou, France’s national museum of contemporary art, Bande dessinée, 1964 – 2024 (Comics 1964-2024). It isn’t just manga, either. From its acknowledged beginning in the counterculture (like Art…