For the first time, the Angoulême International Comics Festival is moving to new exhibition venues and is therefore offering us “outside the walls”, a selection of works by artists. And are in the spotlight as places of exhibition the Gare Saint-Lazare, the Gare de Lyon, the Gare de Montparnasse and the Gare du Nord.
Yukito Kishiro, Yoshiharu Tsuge, Enki Bilal, Charles Burnes, Brecht Evens, Emilie Geason, Emil Ferris … All these artists will therefore be exhibited until February 15.
Comics, certainly outside the walls of Angoulême but ultimately “on” the walls of our stations.
The origin of the Comic strip formula …
In fact the comic strip is also called the ninth art, a designation attested in 1964 and which we owe to Claude Beylie in one of his articles. Remember that the seventh art designates cinema, and the eighth, television and photography.
As for the comic strip, it was born as a French formula in 1930 to translate the Anglo-American comics strip, strip designating a strip in English. This happy translation spread through the contracts of the Opera Mundi agency, a formulation so well accepted that in 1956, we already say comics and in 1978, comic book lovers became comic book fans.
A few years ago I received an etymological dictionary in the form of a comic strip. Now what is one of the most famous dictionaries: that of Littré, the Littré … Or where did Littré spend part of his childhood? In Angoulême….
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