THE OLYMPIC GAMES CELEBRATED BY BIBI FRICOTIN, LES PIEDS NICKELES ASTERIX AND THE SMURFS

The theme of the Olympics has a recurring role in French-language comic strips. In order to reveal the representations of games in this type of children's literature, the study will analyze the ``Olympics'' series of four albums (Bibi Fricotin, Les Pieds Nickeles, Asterix and The Smurfs), which were very successful with postwar economic boom generations. On the one hand, this work shows that these comics, parodying the sports hero and criticizing the Olympic staging, sought to attract young readers who were critical of performance practices. On the other hand, it emphasizes the gradual shift, from the postwar years to the early 1980s, from a grotesque and humorous vision of the Games delivered by Bibi Fricotin and Pieds Nickeles to the emergence of a more educational and moralizing perspective in Asterix and The Smurfs.