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You may be on to something: I seem to have experienced the opposite, as having grown up reading Ligne Claire-comics initially made it really difficult for me to follow what was happening in comics drawn in other styles.

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Same here. After, like every little French boy, having been fed with Tintin and Asterix in my baby bottle, much of the more modern work made me feel like the author was not straight to the point enough, wasting my attention with his uncertain and meandering process of drawing. It took a lot of time to appreciate anything else and stop feeling like it's all amateurish sketching.

When I was a kid I hated geographical maps that did not have a ligne claire drawn between the land and the ocean.

> After, like every little French boy, having been fed with Tintin and Asterix in my baby bottle

Not French but I've felt this too -- purely on an aesthetic level I enjoy the artwork of Tintins, Asterixes, and even older American superhero comics, because of the simpler, more traditionally comic-like artwork.

Modern comics have more realistic colors but appear "over-pencilled"[1,2] somehow.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/GOCCMZv [2] https://imgur.com/a/Rysp9do

I'm French, and I've also grown up with a lot of bandes dessinées around me. I love Astérix, Lucky Luke, Gaston, … But I've had a hard time with Tintin since forever.

Lines in these other series are not as straight as in Tintin. They feel more hand drawn or something. I'm not really able to explain.

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