Angoulême Comics Festival 2023: Program, Exhibitions, and Awards

Angoulême Comics Festival 2023: Program, Exhibitions, and Awards

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, … Read more

2023-2024 Women’s French Cup Draw: Complete List of Matches and Teams

2023-2024 Women’s French Cup Draw: Complete List of Matches and Teams

The draw for the first federal round of the 2023-2024 Women’s French Cup, which will mark the entry into the running of the women’s D2 teams, was held this Wednesday, November 1 at the National Football Center in Clairefontaine (Yvelines). The matches will be played on Sunday November 19. Here is the draw : Group … Read more

Investigation into Guinean Man’s Death during Road Check Casts Doubt on Police Version: Mediapart

Investigation into Guinean Man’s Death during Road Check Casts Doubt on Police Version: Mediapart

Credit: Illustration Envato – DR The investigation into the death of a Guinean during a road check in Charente last June undermines the police version, according to elements revealed by Mediapart. On June 14, two weeks before the death of young Nahel in Nanterre, Alhoussein Camara, 19, lost his life while driving his car to … Read more

Poitiers Administrative Court Suspends Angoulême’s Controversial Anti-Marginal Decree

Poitiers Administrative Court Suspends Angoulême’s Controversial Anti-Marginal Decree

The interim judge of the Poitiers administrative court has decided to suspend the decree of the city of Angoulême which prohibits lying down, sitting and even standing in certain places in the center when these positions hinder “pedestrian circulation”. The decision of the town hall of Angoulême had caused a lot of talk. It is … Read more

Angoulême Town Hall Prohibits Occupation of Public Spaces: Decision to be Delivered on July 7 – AFP

Angoulême Town Hall Prohibits Occupation of Public Spaces: Decision to be Delivered on July 7 – AFP

The summary judge will deliver her decision on Monday July 7 before an appeal on the merits. In its decree published on July 11 regulating “the abusive occupation of public spaces”, the town hall of Angoulême prohibits “seated or lying down when it constitutes an obstacle to the circulation of pedestrians and access to buildings … Read more

“The Color of Things”: A Graphic Novel Reinventing the Codes of Comics

“The Color of Things”: A Graphic Novel Reinventing the Codes of Comics

This content is not accessible. Martin Panchaud: “My style was born from the meeting of graphic design and comics” Catherine Panchaud At the meeting of graphic design and comics, The color of things, by Martin Panchaud, reinvents with talent the codes of the ninth art. A new language to tell the adventures of a teenager … Read more

How did Louis de Funès appear in a Marvel movie?

How did Louis de Funès appear in a Marvel movie?

It seems completely improbable and even downright impossible since the very first Marvel movie, Iron Man was released in 2008, 25 years after the death of the favorite French comic. And yet, yes, Louis De Funès did appear in a superhero film, Captain America: The Winter Soldier.You may have seen it and yet I’m pretty … Read more

Comic. In Angoulême, Marcello Quintanilha’s Fauve d’or surfs on a tide of prizes

Comic.  In Angoulême, Marcello Quintanilha’s Fauve d’or surfs on a tide of prizes

And the Golden Fauve of the 49e edition of the Angoulême International Comics Festival (Charente) is attributed to… Listen pretty Marcia, by the Brazilian author Marcello Quintanilha (Editions here and there). The prize for the best album of the year salutes a surprising work, whose story takes on an incredible intensity over the pages. Marcia … Read more

Angoulême comic book festival: our favorite bubbles

Angoulême comic book festival: our favorite bubbles

► You think therefore I am The Great Void de Léa Murawiec Editions 2024, 200 pages, €29 The concept of Great Void is at the same time simple, cruel and… brilliant from a scriptwriting point of view: if no one thinks of you anymore, then you will die. To survive in this dystopian city-world, the … Read more

when the Resistance enters comics

when the Resistance enters comics

A former resistance fighter receiving a comic book screenwriter award, who would have believed it in 2022? It is however the divine surprise reserved, upstream of the Angoulême Festival, for Madeleine Riffaud, 97, winner with Jean-David Morvan of the René-Goscinny prize for Madeleine, resistant (Dupuis), amazing and moving testimony on his commitment, from the age … Read more