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Virginie TALET, « Le magazine Ah ! Nana : une épopée féministe dans un monde d’hommes ? », Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire, ID : 10.4000/clio.4562
Ah! Nana was a comic strip magazine published between 1976 and 1978. It was adapted from the magazine Wimmen’s comix which appeared in the US in the 1970’s. Ah! Nana was produced entirely by women and was meant to be read by women, as such it stands as a pioneer in the world of French comics. Its’ content reflected feminist concerns of its time and dealt with an array of highly sensitive and taboo topics for the late 1970’s, such as incest and violence against women. Reports on particular themes were enhanced by a straightforward layout with raw and sometimes cruel images. It takes a great deal to change mentalities dramatically, however. Did Ah! Nana’s women go too far? At any rate, this project emerged too early and was too unusual to survive. It was a commercial failure which censorship ultimately condemned. Still, Ah! Nana – a project which so far has never been renewed in France – offered the possibility for women to express themselves in comics and its existence illustrates their difficulties in being published.