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Angoulême Festival: a surprising Grand Prix, beautiful exhibitions and a concert of drawings in tribute to Ukraine

2022-03-17T15:39:23.578Z


WE WERE THERE – After two years of pandemic, the event inaugurates its 49th edition with great fanfare. And without a mask.


As soon as you arrive at the station, the Angoulême festival sets the tone.

The event welcomes festival-goers freed from the mask with a poster of a beast, the famous statuette given to the winners imagined by Lewis Trondheim, waving the Ukrainian flag.

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This poster welcomes festival-goers to the event dedicated to the ninth art.

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With Ukraine, comic book scriptwriters are also honored, subjects of two exhibitions.

The first, orchestrated by Loo Hui Phang, screenwriter of the remarkable

Black Out

, portrays 32 authors from different generations and backgrounds.

From René Goscinny to Marguerite Abouet and Benoît Peeters via David B, Thomas Cadène, Fabien Vehlmann, Jacques Lob or Valérie Mangin, the selection, subjective and non-exhaustive, presents each artist in his lair.

Each portrait is accompanied by reflections on the profession.

The screenwriter of the remarkable

Black Out

, paints the portrait of 32 authors, coming from various generations and backgrounds.

Olivier Delcroix

If the subject is edifying, we regret an ascetic scenography lacking in fantasy and extravagance.

The video showing the duo Benoît Peeters and François Schuiten in the middle of a working session, is nevertheless worth the detour in itself.

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More spectacular and exhilarating, the exhibition at the Cité de la BD (until November 6),

Comic strips and animated films from Popeye in Persepolis,

looks back at the popular origins of two arts that have evolved in parallel.

How have these two artistic forms fed each other since their creation?

This is the question that underlies this tasty and intelligent journey staged by the winning trio Anne Hélène Hoog, Serge Bromberg and Pascal Vimenet.

Born in the rotary press of the 19th century, the eternal heroes of popular culture, revealed in the streets and at funfairs, have never ceased to juggle between comics and animated film.

Little Nemo, Mickey, Krazy Kat, Betty Boop, Popeye, Mister Magoo or the Shadoks, Superman, Batman, without forgetting Grendizer, One Piece and Naruto for the most recent... These characters have been infused into popular culture thanks to the '

wonderment of these enthusiasts who embarked on the fascinating human adventure of the animated image.

The visitor perceives the complex and fruitful relations between animated cinema and comic strips, through videos, images and extracts from the archives, original plates and technical objects.

Émile Reynaud's praxinoscope, the Pathé camera invented for women and children lead the festival-goer into a joyful farandole of emotions.

The luminous pantomimes of Emile Reynaud broadcast at the Grévin Olivier Delcroix museum.

Krazy kat, character created by comic and cartoon star George Herriman.

Olivier Delcroix.

Le Vaisseau Moebius has chosen this year to celebrate the work of Christophe Blain.

The sumptuous

Christophe Blain retrospective, Dessin le temps

, exhibits more than a hundred original plates by the creator of

Gus, Isaac le Pirate or Quai d'Orsay

.

Recognized by the festival with his first volume of

Isaac the Pirate

in 2002, the buyer of

Blueberry

with Joann Sfar present during a privileged visit was delighted with this immersive stroll through his work.

The western, women, cinema, music, humor and diplomacy with

Quai d'Orsay,

nothing is left out.

Thirty years of creation have been sifted through the analysis of the author, who has lent himself to the game of commentary on the boards.

The retrospective ends with an exciting documentary in which Christophe Blain returns to his favorite films.

Sketch for a DVD cover inspired by Sergio Leone's film

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

.

Olivier Delcroix.

From the film

Le voleur

by Louis Malle with Jean-Paul Belmondo (1967), to

Rififi chez les hommes

by Jules Dassin (1955),

Butch Kassidy et le kid

(1969) by George Roy Hill with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, these venerated works are among those that nourish his creation.

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In the evening, in the city theatre, the entire profession, delighted to meet again after two years of the epidemic under normal conditions, attended the surprising consecration of Julie Doucet, elected Grand Prix.

"I have a hard time believing it.

It all started from almost nothing.

A small fanzine in the 1980s and today here I am in Angoulême to receive the most important prize in the comics industry”

, reacted the 56-year-old author who for sixteen years dropped her pencils to not resume them only recently.

Always under the sign of Ukraine, the drawings of Riad Sattouf, Edmond Baudoin or Victor Hussenot are projected on the big screen to welcome the particularly moved winner.

The Grand Prix of the previous edition Chris Ware, the

, present to present him with his award, commented on the situation in Ukraine, comparing Vladimir Putin to the playground bully that all children have known at school and that you can only beat shouting louder.

Passing of the torch between Chris Ware and Julie Doucet.

Antoine Guibert/ 9th ART+

After officially declaring the 49th edition of the festival open, an exceptional concert of drawings in tribute to the Ukrainian people confronted with the Russian invasion begins.

For 45 minutes, ten authors from all over Europe, men and women combined, followed one another to illustrate live a story without words imagined by Alfred, the author of

Come Prima

prize for the best album in 2014. Under the music of the pianist Franco-Ukrainian Dimitri Naïditch, Aude Picault, Mathilde Domeck and Jimmy Beaulieu staged a poignant story evoking the exile of a Ukrainian family leaving behind battlefields and a country in ruins.

An intense first day of reunion which shows that the comic strip is far from being locked up in its bubble.

Franco-Ukrainian pianist Dimitri Naïditch 9th ART+

Source: lefigaro

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