The René-Goscinny prize is awarded on Friday in Angoulême.
For the occasion, Anne Goscinny spoke on Europe 1 about the place of women in the world of comics, believing that her father was a forerunner in matters of equality and feminism, in particular by creating the characters of Cleopatra, in " Asterix ", and Calamity Jane, in" Lucky Luke ".
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"He is the first to have given a woman a chance".
Guest of Europe 1, Friday, Anne Goscinny, novelist and daughter of René Goscinny, of whom she is the beneficiary, affirmed that in a still very masculine world - that of comics - her father was a precursor in equality between men and women.
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This "chance" about which his daughter speaks, René Goscinny gave it to Claire Brétecher, comic strip pioneer and creator of
Agrippina.
He invited her "to work for the
Pilote
newspaper
," recalls Anne Goscinny.
And according to the latter, the designer said of her father that he "really put you on an equal footing. You felt completely unworthy of this equal footing, but it was nice".
"Cleopatra and Calamity Jane, feminism level, we are at the cleat"
Women creators put forward therefore, but also central female characters in the work of René Goscinny, reminds Anne Goscinny.
"The women my father animated in comics are Cleopatra and Calamity Jane", lists Anne Goscinny.
"I think that feminism level, we are at the cleat anyway."
A feminism which despite everything still struggles to impose itself today.
At the start of the 21st century, women working in comics made up less than a third of all writers, according to a 2016 study.