Faced with the pandemic and the postponement of the Angoulême festival to June, the comic strip found refuge this winter in more than 40 stations in France. A new way to present all the albums selected for the Fauves d’Angoulême 2021 which will be awarded on January 29.
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The 48th edition of the Angoulême International Comic Strip Festival should have been held at the end of January. The covid-19 epidemic decided otherwise, forcing the organizers to split the event into two parts, the award ceremony and an exhibition devoted to Emmanuel Guibert from January, a meeting on site next June.
In the meantime, the Angoulême Festival and SNCF Gares & Connexions have joined forces to make the ninth art accessible to as many people as possible. And what better place than the stations, present everywhere on the national territory, could meet this objective?
Since December and until mid-February, 41 stations, from Marseille to Lille, from Rennes to Strasbourg, via Paris, Toulouse and Caen have opened their doors and their halls to 119 artists, 108 exhibitions, 85 books and 48 publishers.
In Pays de la Loire
Three stations are participating in the event in the region, those of Nantes, Le Mans and Angers.
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In Le Mans station, visitors will be able to admire the great work of Chuya Koyama, Space Brothers, volume 31, released by Pika edition, official selection of the festival. Always in large format, they can also find Guardians of the attic by Oriane Lassus at Biscoto, album named in the Youth 8-12 selection of the festival.
© David Paquin
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In Angers station, two duos of authors share the space, Aseyn and Boulet for Bolshoi Arena volume 2 by Delcourt, Lucy Mazel and Véro Cazot for Olive volume 1 published by Dupuis.
© David Paquin
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Finally, in Nantes, and in particular in the brand new mezzanine footbridge of the station, nine authors and four albums are highlighted, Tomorrow is another shitty day by Olivier Texier, published by Les Requins Marteaux, nominated in the official selection of the International Comic Strip Festival 2021, The Last Atlas volume 2 by Hervé Tanquerelle, Fred Blanchard, Fabien Vehlmann and Gwen de Bonneval at Dupuis, nominated in the selection official of the International Comic Strip Festival 2021, Le Meal des Hyènes by Mélanie Allag and Aurélien Ducoudray at Delcourt, nominated in the Youth 12-16 selection of the International Comic Strip Festival 2021 and Golden age by Nantais Cyril Pedrosa and Roxanne Monteil at Dupuis, nominated in an event selection of the 2021 International Comic Strip Festival.
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