The two volumes of the cartoon "Culottées", by Pénélope Bagieu, will be adapted in the form of thirty mini cartoons, broadcast on France 5. The designer wanted to entrust the keys of this project to a 100% female team.

On the sidelines of International Women's Rights Day, Sunday March 8, France 5 is launching an animation series adapted from the work of designer Pénélope Bagieu. Like the comic strip, this new series is called Culottées , just like the women it tells, who have changed their destiny and, by extension, all of society.

In total: thirty portraits of women sketched by Pénélope Bagieu. "I like the fact that it is a 100% female project. They are producers who want to make young directors and screenwriters work," explains Europe 1 Pénélope Bagieu. "We met over coffee, and I told myself that they really understood what I wanted to say in my comic book. I felt reassured, I could give them the keys, and not anymore deal with it. "

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This adaptation is also an opportunity for the artist to move from comics to cartoons. "It brings other ways of telling stories, and lots of things I could never have done in comics," she says. "The fact of giving them a voice, that of Cécile de France who makes all the characters, the fact of making them move, of having music ... these are questions that I don't ask myself when I draw. had to step back, imagine the decor, embroider beyond what I had done. "

The 30 episodes of the series, of 3 minutes 30 each, will be broadcast on France 5 and of course on all of France Télé's platforms.