Abstract

By analyzing the comic strip albums of the 2000s about Emil Zatopek, this article aims to show that making sportsmen heroes is the work of the media in which comic strips are involved, namely through artists’ memory and/or the images they used to build their stories. From then on, the myth is perpetuated through the decades owing to the repeated use of the same imagery made up of clichés, whether photos or renewed beliefs. Zatopek, les années Mimoun by Marcel Couchaux (2006) particularly draws our attention because, beyond the glorious years of the Czechoslovakian champion, this work expresses the influence of such heroes in both collective and children’s imaginations, allowing everyone to become or to remain a ‘little Zatopek.’

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