On the occasion of the Angoulême Festival, which celebrates the 9th art every year, Virginie Girod receives Sébastien Bordenave, comics specialist at Europe 1, to retrace the history of comics, from illustrated books to the creation of modern comics. with heroes like Tintin between the end of the 19th century and the First World War. The radio columnist relies on the book "The comic strip in the beautiful era from 1880 to 1914" by Thierry Groensteen (Editions Les Nouvelles impressions) to tell the beginnings of comics, with the first "stories in pictures" that the we found in the newspapers, then how Hergé invented the mythical character of Tintin, or even the representation of women in comic strip drawings from the beginning of the 20th century. "When we read comics from the Belle Epoque, we have the feeling of being on another planet. We can come across drawings of hallucinating racism, machismo, anti-Semitism...", deciphers Sébastien Bordenave.

2023-01-27T04:12:51.740Z

INTERVIEW - On the occasion of the Angoulême Festival which celebrates the 9th art every year, Virginie Girod receives Sébastien Bordenave, comics specialist at Europe 1, to retrace the history of comics, from the illustrated to the creation of the Modern comics with heroes like Tintin between the end of the 19th century and the First World War. The radio columnist relies on the book "The comic strip in the beautiful era from 1880 to 1914" by Thierry Groensteen (Editions Les Nouvelles impressions) to recount the beginnings of comics, with the first "stories in pictures" that we found in the newspapers, then how Hergé invented the mythical character of Tintin, or even the representation of women in comic strip drawings from the beginning of the 20th century. " When you read comics from the Belle Epoque, you have the impression of being on another planet. You can come across drawings of incredible racism, machismo, anti-Semitism...", deciphers Sébastien Bordenave. Subjects covered: history of comics - history of books - cartoon caricatures - satirical comics - Belle Époque literature - Hergé - Tintin