camithy

[honest cave]

Please be patient

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[delicate schooner]

right away - tout de suite

so popular - très si populaires

if youre in an informal setting, bandes desinées can be shorted to BD

else everything looks nice

[restive brook]

oohh, okay!! thank you so much for the suggestions and corrections! i really appreciate the help!! :DD

[delicate schooner]

de rien ;)

[restive brook]

[verbal hemlock]

The imperfect is a bit weird here. They aren’t becoming popular, they became popular

Depending on the context, you might use imperfect, but I’d more expect passé composé

[restive brook]

ohh, i see! there isn't much context, just the idea that comic books became popular in france

so should i stick with passe compose?

[stuck shore]

Imperfect is used for continuous events, states or habits.
Passé composé is used for events that are at a specific point in time. It doesn't need to be short, it just means that in your narration, you only see it as an event with nothing major happening during that time.
Because you only care about the before/after, aka how they went from not popular to popular, and not about what was happening during the time they were becoming popular, you have to use passé composé.