Resnais was more often associated with a "Left Bank" group of writers and filmmakers who included Agnès Varda, Chris Marker, Jean Cayrol, Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet (with all of whom he collaborated in the earlier part of his career). They were distinguished by their interests in documentary, left-wing politics, and the literary experiments of the "nouveau roman". At the same time, Resnais was also a devotee of popular culture. He owned the largest private collection of comic books in France and in 1962 became the vice president and co-founder of an International Society for Comic Books, "Le Club des bandes dessinées", renamed two years later as "Centre d'Études des Littératures d'Expression Graphique (CELEG)". CELEG members also included Resnais' artistic collaborators Marker and Robbe-Grillet.