After cancellation and postponement, the Angoulême Comics Festival is back

This time it's the right one.

After having had to cancel its 2021 edition and postpone that of 2022, the Angoulême International Comics Festival (FIBD) is back, from Wednesday to Sunday, without a mask or vaccination pass.

After the gloom of January, when a wave of Covid-19 contaminations had prevented the festival from being held on the usual dates, comes optimism in March, with favorable weather in the Charente city, and the lifting, at the right time, health restrictions.

"We will thus reconnect with the pleasure of sharing, of encounters, of the freedom to express ourselves and to exchange around comics," writes the Festival's management.

The last edition open to the general public, the 47th, in January 2020, attracted nearly 200,000 visitors.

A concert of drawings dedicated to Ukraine

The 49th opens Wednesday evening with a ceremony at the Angoulême theater, with “a concert of drawings dedicated to Ukraine”.

"This collective performance will bring together many comic strip artists, representing more than ten nationalities, who will come together to offer, based on a scenario by the French author Alfred, a story in drawings evoking the Ukrainian situation", with at least piano the Franco-Ukrainian Dimitri Naïditch, specified the FIBD.

On this occasion will be awarded the most prestigious award in the world of comics, the grand prize of the city of Angoulême.

It will be a woman, which is relatively rare: since its creation in 1974, only Claire Bretécher, Florence Cestac and Rumiko Takahashi have won.

Are in the running the French Pénélope Bagieu and Catherine Meurisse, already finalists in 2021 and beaten by the American Chris Ware, as well as the Canadian Julie Doucet.

Pénélope Bagieu, Catherine Meurisse or Julie Doucet for the Grand Prix

Pénélope Bagieu is the best known to the general public, since the immense success of her Joséphine series at the end of the 2000s. Catherine Meurisse, from the same generation of young people in her forties, is a former

employee .

Finally, Quebecer Julie Doucet had a short but remarkable

career , concentrated between 1988 and 1992, and ended in 2006.

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This edition also marks the return of exhibitions.

One of them will be a retrospective of Chris Ware, the king of American comics, who is making the trip after having to stay at his home near Chicago at the time of his Grand Prix in 2021. Others are devoted to the character which is all the rage in playgrounds,

, to the author Aude Picault, to the relationship between comic strips and animated film, or even to manga legends, past or future, respectively Shigeru Mizuki, for the centenary of his birth, and Tatsuki Fujimoto, the author of

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Authors and authors paid for dedications

Another novelty will be the remuneration of the authors present for dedications.

The Ministry of Culture announced on Friday the signing of a protocol providing for "lump sum remuneration".

This subject was very sensitive for the Angoulême Festival, threatened with a boycott in 2021 by authors dissatisfied with not drawing any fruit from the popular success of the event.

But there was another controversy instead, with the resignation of the jury of a prize awarded on Saturday, the Eco-Fauve Raja.

In February, the jurors all resigned to denounce the name of this award, which includes that of a packaging industrialist.

Its maintenance has shown how much the Festival, which has been struggling with notorious financial difficulties since the cancellation of its 48th edition, needed this partner more than ever, who has been present "for years now, in good and bad times".

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