Redrawing French Empire in Comics by Mark McKinney investigates how comics have represented the colonization and liberation of Algeria and Indochina. It focuses on the conquest and colonization of Algeria from 1830 the French war in Indochina 19461954 and the Algerian War 19541962. Imperialism and colonialism already featured prominently in nineteenthcentury Frenchlanguage comics and cartoons by Tpffer Cham and Petit. As society has evolved so has the popular representation of those historical forces. French torture of Algerians during the Algerian War once taboo now features prominently in comics especially since 2000 when debate on the subject was reignited in the media and the courts. The increasingly explicit and spectacular treatment in comics of the more violent and lurid aspects of colonial history and ideology is partly due to the post1968 growth of an adult comics production and market. For example the appearance of erotic and exotic feminized images of Indochina in French comics in the 1980s indicated that colonial nostalgia for French Indochina had become fashionable in popular culture. Redrawing French Empire in Comics shows how contemporary cartoonists such as Alagb Baloup Boudjellal Ferrandez and Sfar have staked out different sometimes conflicting positions on French colonial history.