The article analyses the publishing project promoted by the Louvre and Futuropolis, which, since 2005, has commissioned leading comic artists to create works set in the museum. Through a comparison of four French and four Japanese authors, the article investigates how architecture and the collection become narrative devices capable of enhancing both tangible and intangible heritage. Western authors tend to intervene in the physicality of the museum, transforming its space and materiality through dystopian or sensory approaches; Japanese authors, by contrast, preserve its architectural integrity and use artworks as symbolic thresholds towards memorial and spiritual dimensions. Comics thus emerge as an effective tool for cultural mediation, capable of renewing the Louvre’s myth and expanding access to the museum through new forms of storytelling.
