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– written by plienardthe 09/03/2022
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A moment of lightness and dreams that can only do good.
An exceptional month of March awaits us this year. And even if it is constrained and forced by the health crisis, the FIBD will celebrate the end of winter with a comic book festival that has been awaited for two years.
From March 17 to 20, 2022! Yes, you are not dreaming, the international comic strip festival will open its doors to all amateurs and professionals of the 9th art in the middle of March. it’s obviously a revolution that should delight all the grumpy people who railed against its outfit during the January frosts and that will perhaps prove them right. But if there is a revolution, it is above all in the selection of the grand prize, which at the end of the first round, from February 21 to 27, selected three authors! Never seen ! The women’s revolution has been underway (for a while!) and is beginning to bear fruit (finally!). Pénélope Bagieu, Julie Doucet and Catherine Meurisse, among these three artists, is the 2022 winner.
Penelope Bagieu © Eva Cagin – Julie Doucet © Kate Mada – Catherine Meurisse © Dargaud/Rita Scaglia.
Three women in the home straight, is this the end of the controversy at the FIBD? Nay… between the Glénat editions which were sulking at not having any albums in the official selection (in reality, 1 album out of 93) and which no longer wanted to come for the January edition, it is the jury for the ecology prize (named Éco-Fauve Raja) who resigned by denouncing that the prize was associated with a multinational packaging brand: a sponsor that was not green enough in a way! And it is the leaders of the FIBD who are the ones for once!
These are subjects that are obviously not insignificant, and which deserve our commitment for them. But for ordinary readers, this is probably not of much interest. And the important thing will undoubtedly be that its festival goes well with its exhibitions, its stands, its dedications, its shows, its meetings…
So after an exceptional year for the comics market which jumped by more than 5O% (more than 100% for manga), we understand that Asian comics are becoming essential. It is in this context that the festival will dedicate three exhibitions to Asian authors.
Shigeru Mizuki – Tales of a Fantasy Life
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Exactly a century ago, Shigeru Mizuki was born. The festival returns to the romantic life of this author of war stories and horror manga, awarded in 2007 with the prize for best album. Enlisted in the imperial army during the Second World War, he will live there the horrors of war, lose many brothers in arms, and come out mutilated with the loss of his left arm. An event that could have put an end to his desire to become a designer. But “overcoming his trauma, he published his first manga in 1957.
Tatsuki Fujimoto – Chaos Hero
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Tatsuki Fujimoto is one of the rising stars of the Jump stable – magazines/label of publisher Shûeisha (Dragon Ball, Hunter x Hunter bleach, Naruto, One piece) – after only two rounds: Fire punch and Chainsaw Man (Harvey Award for best manga) at Kazé. Stories with fantastic and supernatural contexts which reveal his “polymorphous style” with an envied result: “to seduce the general public and readers of more experimental stories”.
Masaaki Yuasa & Taiyo Matsumoto –L’art de Inu-Oh
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Masaaki Yuasa is the director of Inu-Ohinspired by the novel the dog king by Hideo Furukawa. A story following the journey of a boy called a monster (Inu-Oh) because he was born with a deformity that he hides behind a mask. But meeting a blind musician will radically change his life.
Festival-goers will be able to discover a preview broadcast as well as a behind-the-scenes exhibition of design, including the creations of characters designed by Taiyo Matsumoto.
Building Chris Ware
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Like any good self-respecting Grand Prix, Chris Ware is entitled to his exhibition looking back on nearly 30 years of career, which “will lead visitors through the work of the author”. An unusual editorial work in 1993, with a series of booklets in various formats (Acme Novely Library) and characters like Jimmy Corrigan (Jimmy Corrigan : the smartest kid on earth – fauve for the best album and critics’ prize in 2003), will bring him out of anonymity.
Rene Goscinny – Screenwriter, what a job!
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It is the most famous of all. If it may seem inconceivable now, he is the one who created a profession that was not recognized: that of screenwriter. If the greatest have passed under his pen: Asterix, Iznogood, The little Nicolas, Lucky Luke, the Dingodossiersit is also the first time that he has the right to a retrospective on more than two decades and more than 450 scenarios.
Loo Hui Phang – Writing is a profession
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It will have been necessary to wait until 2022 to have an exhibition on René Goscinny and as much for a screenwriter. Lou Hui Phang does not have the notoriety of her predecessor but the talent, she does. Winner of the 2021 René Goscinny Prize, with this thematic exhibition, she will expose the daily reality of a writer and answer many questions.
Christophe Blain – Drawing time
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It is a great retrospective placed under the sign of cinema for the leading author of the new comic strip. Fauve d’or in 2013 for volume 2 of Quai d’Orsay, this story precisely adapted to the cinema the same year highlights the presence of this medium in all of its bibliography: faces of actors, scenes inspired by film , it is also the western genre that wins the prize with Gus (four volumes at Dargaud) or its revival of Blueberry with Joann Sfar.
Under the pen of Aude Picault
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Back on the evolution of the author Aude Picault through this exhibition which “will highlight the work of the one who excels in telling the daily life in women”. Notebooks recording his moments of perplexity (Me I at Vraoum), to harder works on the suicide of his father, Papa, at L’Association (2006), up to erotic stories with Comtesse which will inaugurate the collection BD cul des Requins Marteaux, she will however prefer fiction to autobiography. Come and discover it in an exhibition “thought like a case”.
Simon Roussin – The great adventure!
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This exhibition looks back on the 10 years of Simon Roussin’s career (and 10 albums) through the figure of the hero. Co-founder of the journal Nyctalope with Marion Fayolle and Matthias Malixgrëy, and after a first album Robin Hood (Employee of the month in 2010), he signed, in 2012, Lemon Jefferson and the Great Adventure in the 2024 editions, a post-apocalyptic story colored with markers and retained in the official selection of the festival and Heartbreak Valley (2024 editions). Albums that show the emblematic figure of the hero who is an essential component of his past and future stories in the service of his recognized talent for color and light, as well as his graphic and narrative audacity.
Mortelle Adèle – The prohibited exhibition at nazebroques
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She is a heroine who is talked about in schoolyards. His character and his well-meaning repartee convinced 9 million young readers. Her screenwriter dad, Mr Tan, and her cartoonist mom, Diane Le Feyer allow her fans to find Adèle in comics, but also in novels, audio books, board games, magazines… or even an album of songs composed by Aldebert. Make way for this first exhibition where visitors will have to submit to several tests and challenges.
Camille Jourdy & Lolita Séchan – Hidden or not!
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Camille Jourdy (Rosalie Blum Revelation prize in 2010, and The Vermilions Fauve Jeunesse in 2020) and Lolita Séchan (An escape from Bartok Biloba) there are two universes, that of flamboyant colors and that of black and white. They will bring together their favorite characters – the mole Bartok Biloba and the little cat girl Nouk – for an incredible game of hide and seek. An immersive exhibition for the whole family, divided as it should be into two parts!
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