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Index
Tourcoing, France, 116n12
traction, cultural (grounding effect), 189–91,
209. See also history and history-making:
distractions from; trait; treatment
trait, 189, 193–95, 198, 204, 206. See also
character; drawing; history and history-
making: distractions from; line work; trac-
tion; treatment
treatment (trait-making, traitement), 189,
198–99, 206. See also character; drawing;
history and history-making: distractions
from; line work; trait; traction
trente glorieuses, 255; definition, 256n13
tressage. See tropes and stylistic effects in
bande dessinée
trompe-l’oeil. See tropes and stylistic effects in
bande dessinée
Trondheim, Lewis (Laurent Chabosy), 4,
10, 83, 100, 213; president of 2007 Festival
international de la bande dessinée, 9–10.
Works: Astronauts of the Future, 10;
“Dungeon” series, 10. See also Association, L’
tropes and stylistic effects in bande dessinée,
107; chiasmus, 146; incrustation, 222, 225,
234; meta-discourse, 113, 126; meta-image,
126; metalepsis, 101; meta-narrative, 125;
meta-representation, 118, 125–26, 134, 136;
metonymy, 105, 163; mise-en-abyme, 99,
103, 124; onomatopoeia, 112; rime visuelle,
163; simulacra, 124; tressage, 163; trompe-
l’oeil, 124. See also effet d’histoire; Eiffel
Tower as metonym; ellipsis; Groensteen,
Thierry; Peeters, Benoît
Tuniques bleues, Les (Cauvin and Salvé), 115n9
Tunisia, 152
Tutsis, 167, 176. See also Rwanda
Tyrions, Rik, 185n7
Uderzo, Albert, 3, 7, 74. Works: Le ciel lui
tombe sur la tête (Asterix and the Falling
Sky), 6–7, 17. See also Goscinny, René;
nationalism and national identity; Pilote
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 185n14
United States of America, 172. See also
Americans; imperialism
universalism, 104
Université libre de Bruxelles, 30
Urbicande, 127
USSR, 255
“vache, La,” 169, 176
Vaillant, 17, 22, 62–63, 66, 66n1. See also “Fifi,
gars du marquis”; FPJ
Vandersteen, Willy (Willebrord Jan Frans
Maria Vandersteen), 74
Vandooren, Philippe, 214
Vandromme, Pol, 43n5
van Hasselt, Thierry, 14, 78–80
Van Melkebeke, Jacques, 27
van Opstal, Huibrecht, 184n4
Varende, Yves, 74. Work: Histoire de la bande
dessinée en France et en Belgique, 74
Vatican newspaper, 49
Veblen, Thorstein, 134
Verhaegen, René, 184n4
Verhoest, Eric, 213–15
Verne, Jules, 119, 128
“Vers les mondes inconnus,” 60
Vertige Graphic, 98
Verts, les, 101, 103, 109. See also Blandin,
Marie-Christine; Voynet, Dominique
veterans of the Vietnam War: ambivalence of
feelings, 222–23, 228, 230; catharsis (purge,
exorcism), 216, 232, 234–35; in comics,
212–36; healing process, 214–15, 225, 232,
234, 235n2; inner quest, 213; mixed-race
children of, 232–33, 236n5; nostalgia, 223,
232, 236n4; reconciling past and present,
216, 223, 225, 230, 234; rejection of, 214, 235,
236n6; return to Vietnam, 213–15, 222–24,
232, 235n2, 236n4. See also Viet Nam; Viet-
nam War
Vica (Vincent Krassousky), 56, 59–60, 67n22,
68n27
Vichy regime (1940–44), 36, 38; Catholic
Church, 51; censorship, 62; deportation of
Jews, 156–57, 162; exile, 61; loss of power,
65; propaganda, 45, 53, 57; travail, famille,
patrie, 57. See also Second World War
victoire, 62. See also Second World War
Vidal, Guy, 147, 164n9. Work: Une éducation
algérienne, 146–47