Like many cultural events, the Angoulême comics festival had to review its plans: postponed to next June, the festival has decided to deploy its works in more than forty stations in France.
Paris, Orléans, Nantes, Lille, Metz, Avignon, … Until mid-February, hundreds of comic book artists are now exhibited in around forty stations across France. In total, 84 works and their 120 artists benefit from this new visibility. A great initiative which gives pride of place to an art aimed at a very large audience. The station, a place of passage par excellence, where all generations meet, was the ideal place to exhibit these boards. SNCF, a festival partner for fifteen years now, wanted to support this unmissable event which brings together thousands of authors, journalists and unconditional comic book lovers every year. Travelers can, for example, discover some boards from theGolden age by Cyril Pedrosa and Roxanne Moreil (40,000 copies of the 2nd volume sold) at Gare du Nord, The Last Atlas In Nantes, Billy Hazelnuts by Tony Millionaire at Orléans station or Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes in Strasbourg, and many others.
An exhibition that will certainly reach a new audience, even though an amusement park around the world of comics (with very popular licenses like Boule & Bill, Gaston Lagaffe, the Marsupilami, etc.) must already see the light of day in 2023 near Angoulême, just in time for the fifty of the festival.
