<DIV>Although France has changed much in recent decades, colonial-era imagery continues to circulate widely in comics, including the Tintin series by Hergé and <i>Zig et Puce</i> by Alain Saint- Ogan. This important book argues that cartoonists use representations of colonial history as a way of intervening in debates about contemporary France and its relationships to its former colonies. Mark McKinney argues that comics offer opportunities to reproduce and perpetuate colonial ideologies as well as to deconstruct and contest them—and the degree to which they do one or the other reveals much about the heritage of colonialism in French society.</DIV>