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The future that the French artist Chantal Montellier imagined in the 1970s and '80s, when her dystopian comics ran in the magazine Métal Hurlant, is likewise ominous. BOOKS & the ARTS Why do we turn to dystopian fiction after Roe to cloaks rallies v. when the and Wade, Supreme dressed disaster white protesters bonnets Court looms? Montellier's commitment to feminism has been unflagging, no doubt owing to the sexism she encountered as a trailblazer in French comics. Less famous than Claire Bretécher, who satirized bourgeois life in her widely popular Agrippine comic strip, and Marjane Satrapi, whose memoir Persepolis was adapted into a César-winning movie, Montellier is a politically engaged artist and a pioneer of the feminist movement in French comics. [Extracted from the article]