Looking for details on old possibly french sci-fi comic strip

[Simon C.]

I realize I cross posted this all over the place, BUT, I figure sci-fi and
comic fans are all one and the same, a bit dweeby like me, and maybe one
amongst you can help me out with this?
I read this crusely drawn comic strip every month in a kids magazine in the
60's while living in europe in the 1960's...it was of a group of scientists
who prepared a spehere the size of a large house, with 20 years oxygen and
food, then had themselves shrunk to microscopic size into the eye on the
face of a coin, then had battles with critters and other adventures.

This is NOT FANTASTIC VOYAGE!!!!!!!

The premise is similar, but thats not the story I'm looking for....

Anyone have any ideas on this?
Cheers!

[Simon C.]

[Ian B]

Do you remember the name of the magazine? That would narrow it down a lot.
Where in Europe were you? Europe actually is made up of a number of separate
countries, or at least it was in the 1960s. What language was this in?

Ian

[Cutback]

Sounds a lot like the book "The Micronauts" by Gordon Williams

or even:

the 1979 comic book (Amazon.com link)
http://www.amazon.com/They-Came-Inner-Space-Mantlo/dp/B000QCO2JW/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260478513&sr=1-6

[Jenny Sekwa]

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> Sounds a lot like the book "The Micronauts" by Gordon Williams

This has (at least) two sequels, _The Microcolony_ and
_Revolt of the Micronauts_. All three paperbacks are
sitting on my shelf. But I don't recall any closed sphere.
The Micro books took place in a garden, and had
bioengineered tiny humans who were being tele-puppeted by
sleeping full-size people, IIRC. The tone of the works was
depressing, with an undetailed dystopia hinted at beyond the
walls, and tiny people fighting with giant bugs within them.
Frankly, if you want that sort of book, _Insect Warriors_ by
Rex Dean Levie is better.