There will be sport at the Angoulême Comics Festival! It is in the immense concrete, wood and glass building of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Committee that the largest event dedicated to the 9th art unveiled the program for its 51st edition, which will take place from January 25 to 28. An edition focused, obviously, on sport.
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Like other major cultural events, such as the Cannes and Avignon Festivals, that of Angoulême will be part of the programming of the “Cultural Olympiad” label, announced Dominique Hervieu, director of culture for Paris 2024. Two exhibitions will be devoted to athletic running, one entitled “Starting line(s), There is no point in running? » bringing together young authors like Lisa Blumen (Astra Nova) or Chloé Wary (Rose season), the other “The art of running” bringing together creations by the immense illustrator Lorenzo Mattotti.
Immersion
The rest of the programming is focused on immersion. Immersion in the Japanese metropolis in the manga district. Journey to the land of children’s comics, with a journey returning to the excellent fantastical-medieval tetralogy of Warrior shepherdesses, signed Amélie Fléchais and Jonathan Garnier. Diving in The Arab of the Future, “the world-work” by Riad Sattouf, Grand Prix de la Ville d’Angoulême last year.
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This immersion is also done through in-depth mediation work, particularly in the scenography of the exhibitions, always very careful in Angoulême. “ In order to rediscover a reading experience, we wish to highlight the reproductions by enlarging them to better let visitors observe them in their details. », Explained Marguerite Demoëte, new artistic director alongside Fausto Fasulo, in charge of manga.
Avoid controversy
Carefully avoiding returning to the controversies which shook the 50th edition, with the Vivès affair, Franck Bondoux, general delegate, specifies however that current issues affecting the 9th art will be addressed during a Forum organized over a day by The worldits new media partner.
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Like every year, the official selection of comics is a clever mix between large publishers and small independents, recognized and more confidential authors. It should be noted that no bestseller is found this year in the list of 45 albums eligible for the Fauve d’or.
A first trophy was revealed, that of the René Goscinny Prize for best screenwriter, awarded to Juliette Birmant, for the first volume of the biography of Salvador Dali, drawn by Clément Oubrerie with whom she had also signed a tetralogy on Picasso (Pablo).
That of best young screenwriter is awarded to Simon Boileau for La Ride, about the cycling escape of two friends on the roads of France. An album with elegant graphics, a funny and sensitive tone, and an inspiring storyline. These two comics published by Dargaud had attracted the editorial staff of La Croix the weekly who pre-published them last March and October.
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