Webcomics in France

French webcomics were primarily published on personal blogs, as artists tell stories of their daily lives by putting them in images.

[1] The primary economic model for blog BD is to release the work free of charge with the hope of signing a publishing contract.

[3] Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding are the main driver for various webcomic projects as well: services such as MyMajorCompany, Sandawe, and Manalosanctis allow readers to directly finance or even edit their favorite blog BD.

Several magazines were inspired in turn by Cadène's success, resulting in hybrid blog BD projects such as Professor Cyclopse and La Revue Dessinée [fr].

[3] In January 2017, Gilles Retier of l'Association des Critiques et journalistes de Bande Dessinée (ACBD) stated that licensed BD numérique still weren't able to attract a large enough audience.

Authors expressed concerns for a decline of revenue because of such digital publications, but in reality, illegal downloading of BD numérique is very uncommon.

Webcartoonist Balak launched a personal initiative to exploit the Web as a medium in 2009, and created a company and collective for Turbomedia webcomics in 2014.

[6] Balak proposed the Turbomedia format because he found the successful BD numérique up to that point highly disappointing, saying that "they are either scanned boards uploaded online, or gimmicky effects are added to them like sound, voice or movement."

"[4] In contrast, Casterman-editor Didier Borg created a blog BD service Delitoon in 2011 that implements the infinitely-scrolling layout of South-Korean webtoons.