To squeeze the bubble, let’s start with Amiens where the kickoff for the 25th comic book rendezvous has just been given. This year, the cartoonists await you there every weekend of June for meetings and dedications.
Do not miss the flagship exhibition The tree and the way, dedicated to the work of Cyril Pedrosa, who recently signed with Roxane Moreil the political, medieval and feminist fable Golden age.
Feminist, Amiens is resolutely this year with another exhibition which, under the title Free?, brings together the work of a dozen authors who question the place of women in our society and their relationship to the body.
Among these artists, Aude Mermilliod, whose last album The Women’s Choir, published by Lombard, is an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Martin Winckler. The story takes place in a gynecology department. Contraception, motherhood, domestic violence, abortions … or how a doctor learns to listen to women.
The 25th Amiens comic strip meeting, during the month of June, at the Halle Freyssinet.
Next weekend, Lyon is the place to be. Riad Sattouf and Zep await you at the opera house. Edmond Baudoin, Nicolas de Crécy and Jochen Gerner meet at the Bullukian Foundation. Judith Vanistendael has her hairdressing salon at the Comédie-Odéon. At the town hall, we will have the choice between comics on the front of contemporary disputes, African scenes, images of Lebanon or visions of our collapsing civilization.
Lyon BD, June 11, 12 and 13, 2021.
On the Angoulême side, finally, no festival this year. But, all the same, a great price. The names of the three finalists just announced. The American Chris Ware is there, as every time since the authors were asked to crown one of their own. Chris Ware, always placed, never a winner.
Also already highlighted in previous years for all of her work, Catherine Meurisse is also part of the trio. And an entry among the finalists: Pénélope Bagieu. The designer thus confirms a headlining status acquired with her feminist series.
We will know on June 23 who succeeds Emmanuel Guibert, grand prix in 2020 and whose exhibition at the Angoulême Museum is presented. Emmanuel Guibert in good company. The author of Alan’s War and you Photographer He is surrounded by artists who are dear to him.
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