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The Angoulême International Comics Festival (French: Festival international de la bande dessinée d'Angoulême) is the second largest comics festival in Europe after the Lucca Comics & Games in Italy, and the third biggest in the world after Lucca Comics & Games and the Comiket of Japan.
The Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême is a lifetime achievement award given annually during the Angoulême International Comics Festival to a comics author. Although not a monetary award, it is considered the most prestigious award in Franco-Belgian comics .
1987: Christian comic award: Raoul Follereau: Le vagabond de la charité by Bruno Le Sourd; 1988: Christian testimony award: Maus: un survivant raconte by Art Spiegelman, Flammarion; 1988: Christian comic award: Les fumées bleues du Caire by Jean Duverdier and Michèle Blimer; 1989: Christian testimony award: Ramadan by Farid Boudjellal
In 1989, as the whole award ceremony was renamed after Hergé's unfinished book Alph-Art, this prize became the Alph-Art coup de cœur and was awarded to authors with up to three published works. From 2003-2006 the award was again called Best First Album ( meilleur premier album ), then in 2007 was renamed the "Prix Révélation", which is ...
This period saw an increased interest in Quebec of local comics, and a number of events were first held: the Salon international de la caricature de Montréal added a comic strip section to their annual exhibit in 1971; Festival de la bande dessinée de Montréal ("Festival of Comics of Montreal") was held for four years starting in 1975 at the ...
In 1984, Groensteen became the editor-in-chief of the old fanzine Schtroumpf : Les Cahiers de la bande dessinée, transforming it into one of the first publications that would lead to serious academic criticism of comics in France and beyond. He integrated the publishing company into discussions on art and culture.
The Collective of female comics creators against sexism (Collectif des créatrices de bande dessinée contre le sexisme), also known as BD Egalité, is a movement of female comics authors created to fight gender inequalities in comics publishing. Its creation was announced in September 2015.
The Cité internationale de la Bande Dessinée et de l'Image [115] includes an exhibition space and cinema in a converted brewery down by the river. A new museum dedicated to the motion picture opened in 2007 at the newly restored chais on opposite side of the river at Saint Cybard.