The Comic Strip Festival returns to the Esplanade Charles-de-Gaulle in Nîmes. A veritable flood of images, drawings and bubbles, the event presents more than 40 authors and designers, for all tastes and all ages.
The Comic Strip Festival returns to the Esplanade Charles-de-Gaulle in Nîmes. A veritable village of images, drawings and bubbles, the event features more than 40 authors and designers
On the program: debates, exhibitions, workshops, battles, performances and concerts will punctuate the signing sessions in the heart of a large village of tents entirely dedicated to the 9th Art.
“The Comic Strip Festival is fully anchored in the cultural calendar of Nîmes. It is a very popular biennial, which reaches young and old alike, and allows the City to open up culture in all its forms to as many people as possible. This year again, the most famous authors will be present to sign their works and share their passion “explains Sophie Roulle, Assistant Delegate for Culture.
Philippe Fenech, was born in 1976 in Montpellier. He discovered comics thanks to Asterix, and never let go of the idea of making it his profession. From 2001, he produced illustrations for Disney Presse. It can be found in the magazines “Le journal de Mickey”, “Mickey Parade” or even “Super Scrooge Giant”.
From 2004, he devoted a good part of his time to comics. : Tough a Koala, Anatole and company, L’Empire des Mecchas, Leo Passion rugby, An almost perfect hero et Ulysses! In 2012, he became the designer of the series My Cops (14 volumes to date), which will quickly find its audience.
By his surname, Philippe Fenech seems to have been predestined to draw animals. It is therefore not surprising to find him since 2021, drawing the series Dogmatix and the Indomitables (Editions Albert René) whose volume 4 is to be published soon.
The universe of Fenech. An exhibition combining large-format reproductions of the Idéfix and les irreductibles series (Editions Albert René), My Cop’s (Bamboo) as well as unpublished drawings will be offered to the public.
Blues, Rock et BD par Mezzo et J. M. Dupont. The public will have the pleasure of seeing a superb large format exhibition of reproductions of plates from the two albums by Mezzo and Jean-Michel Dupont: Kiss the sky (Glénat), a musical odyssey centered on Jimi Hendrix (Golden Elvis at the Festival d Angoulême 2023 for the best rock comic book) and Love in Vain (Glénat), a tribute worthy of the phenomenal cult of which Robert Johnson is the object among blues and rock lovers.
Mario ALBERTI, Monte Cristo (Comix Buro) – ARÉ, Bite (Kennes) – WEAPON, Bolshoi Arena (Delcourt) – Bruno BESSADI, The Lion Ogre (Drakoo) – Matthew BLANCHIN – How I didn’t become a bastard (Futuropolis) – Serena Blasco, Arcana (Drakoo) – John Paul Bordier, Dwarfs (Soleil) – Gaetan BRIZZI, Dante’s Inferno (Daniel Maghen) – Camille K., Indelible erasures (Jungle) – Frédéric CARTIER-LANGE, Modestine tells Stevenson in the Cévennes (Youth Alcide) – Christophe CAZENOVE, The little mythos (Bamboo) – Jean-Luc CORNETTE, Christina. The queen-boy (Futuropolis) – BRISSE COSSU, Frnck (Dupuis) - Edward COURT, Rev (Glenat) – Vincenzo CUCCA, Colonisation (Glenat) – Emmanuel DESPUJOL, Side Show (Soleil) – Denis FALQUE, rectifying (Glenat) – Philippe FENECH, Idéfix and the irreducible (Editions Albert René) – Charline FORNS, The sentinel of the Little People (Dupuis) - GOROGLIN, Dear (Dupuis) - Pierre-Denis GOUX, elves (Soleil) – Daphne & Julie GUILLOT, If it was enough that we love each other (Steinkis) – Patrick HITTE, Le Betty Bar (Pack) – André HOUOT & Jocelyne CHARRANCE, Asylum! (Glenat) – JENNY, The Resistance Legendaries (Delcourt) – Sandrine KAO, Thread (Nathan BD) – Richard MARAZANO, Tesla’s Three Ghosts (The Lombard) – Paul Marcel, Tutankhamun. Howard Carter’s Odyssey (Les Arènes BD – 2023 Annie Peysson Prize for Antique Comics) – Alessandra MARSILI, Louise and Ballerina (Jungle) – MATTEO, Venus at her mirror (Futuropolis) – Christian MAUCLER, Simon. The novel of a life (Philleus) – Jordan MECHNER, Replay. Memory of a family (Delcourt) – MEZZO & J.M. DUPONT, Kiss the Sky. Jimi Hendrix 1942-1970 (Glenat) – Emmanuel, Furious Jumper (Soleil) – Robert PAQUET, Andre Maginot. A man above the rest (Editions du Signe) – Fabrizio PETROSSI, Scrooge. The Glasgow Dragon (Glenat) – Alice PICARD, Les Mythics (Delcourt) – Pierre PLACE, Jim Bradger (Glénat/Fayard) – Didier POLI, The Lost Ages (Dargaud) – Jean-Charles POUPARD, Orcs & Gobelins (Soleil) – Théa ROJZMAN, Billie Bang Bang (The Lombard) – Nicolas SIGNARBIEUX, plastok (Glenat) – Emmanuel SUAREZ, The incredible expedition of Corentin Tréguier in the Congo (Nathan BD).
Practical information
FREE ENTRANCE
Location: Esplanade Charles de Gaulle
Opening hours: Friday 12 from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. – Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Parking: Arènes car park, Indigo Arènes
You will soon find the complete program of the Comic Strip Festival on:
www.nimes.fr et www.festivalbdnimes.com