the complete winners of the Angoulême Festival 2023

Here is the complete list of the Angoulême International Comics Festival 2023, unveiled for the most part on Saturday evening. Grand Prize of the City of Angoulême Riad Sattouf Fauve d’or best album “The Color of Things” by Martin Panchaud (Here and There) Fauve special 50th edition Hajime Isayama Honor Beasts Ryoichi Ikegami et Junji … Read more

Riad Sattouf Grand Prix 2023

Riad Sattouf Grand Prix 2023

It’s a long story between Riad Sattouf and the Angoulême Festival. Fauve d’or in 2010 with Pascal Brutal then in 2015 with The Arab of the future, here he is elected by his Grand Prix 2023 pairs. Nothing surprising for this author who monopolizes the top of sales year after year with his great autobiographical … Read more

Storm (The Chronicles of the Meantime) -1- The Voyager Virus

Storm (The Chronicles of the Meantime) -1- The Voyager Virus

1 . Das Voyager-Virus ID: 445620 Scenario: Louis, Martin Design : Matena, Dick Colors: Matena, Dick Blanket : Miller, Romano Legal Deposit : 03/2022 (Published on 02/23/2022) Completed print : 02/2022 Estimation : unlisted Publisher: Splitter Publisher Collection : Collectors Edition Format : Large format ISBN : 978-3-9679224-5-5 Boards :48 Other info: Created the : … Read more

Political comics, counter-power or entertainment?

Is a comic about politics a means of exerting a counter-power, or just entertainment? In the midst of the presidential campaign, the Angoulême Festival asked itself the question. Answer: ideally both. A number of titles have appeared or will appear around this election, sometimes fictions which illustrate its themes, sometimes stagings of a political world … Read more

the censorship of the graphic novel “Maus” in a school creates controversy

the censorship of the graphic novel “Maus” in a school creates controversy

A new little culture war is causing a stir in America and around the world. A Southern US county school board banned the smash-hit Holocaust graphic novel mouse for its content deemed “inappropriate”. This is a new episode in the curricula war launched by conservative states in the country. In this book, the cartoonist Art … Read more

(AUT) Goscinny Goscinny in New York

(AUT) Goscinny Goscinny in New York

– E Between 1945 and 1954, René Goscinny lived in New York. Like any good emigrant, he tried his luck to live the American dream. Disembarked from Buenos Aires where he had spent his childhood, his family had settled in the Big Apple following the death of his father. After a few months of finding … Read more

win your invitations for the illustrated concert with Raphaelle Macaron and Acid Arab at the Célestins

win your invitations for the illustrated concert with Raphaelle Macaron and Acid Arab at the Célestins

Celestins Theater © Tim Douet – The Célestins theater and the Lyon BD festival welcome Raphaëlle Macaron and Acid Arab for an illustrated concert this Wednesday, June 9. Lyon Capital saves you invitations. Cartoonist Raphaelle Macaron joins the group Acid Arab for a new illustrated concert entitled Climates, which will take place on Wednesday June … Read more

The first openly gay Captain America soon in comics

The first openly gay Captain America soon in comics

For the double occasion of “Pride Month” and the 80e character’s birthday, an upcoming Marvel comic will feature a new take on America’s most patriotic superhero. A new version written by Josh Trujillo, himself transgender. The incarnations of the superhero Captain America follow each other and are not alike. On Netflix, Anthony Mackie is preparing … Read more

The Blood Queens – Catherine Sforza, the lioness of Lombardy 1. Volume 1

The Blood Queens – Catherine Sforza, the lioness of Lombardy 1. Volume 1

– A n the 15th century, Venice, Florence, Genoa, Milan and Rome under the papal leadership alternated alliances to influence the destinies of the Italian peninsula. This Game of Five, Catherine, bastard of the Duke of Milan, learned the rules from her uncle and mentor, Ludovico Sforza. The assassination of her father, during the winter … Read more