First, in the brilliant volume 2 of “Journal troubled Istanbul” by Ersin Karabulut, to be published on January 3 by Dargaud. A press cartoonist in Turkey, the author retraces the years 2007 to 2017. With five cartoonist friends, this is the time when he created a newspaper, “Uykusuz”, with dazzling success. But faced with the caricatures published every week, the criticism and threats are getting tougher.
2011, the little gang saves money to come to Angoulême. A Spirou at the bottom of the bubble, a crowd of people… “The Angoulême Festival completely blew us away,” writes the author. We were popular in Türkiye, of course. Yet our work was not considered art. » In the box just below, we find the designers at the Chat Noir terrace, Place des Halles. “As we spoke no French and barely English, we just sipped cognac. » The dream, upon their return: to work in France, in peace. It was before January 7, 2015 and the Charlie Hebdo attack.
“Inlandsis Inlandsis”, an anticipation story by Benjamin Adam.
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Another mention in Angoulême, more fleeting, in the first volume of “Inlandsis Inlandsis”, an anticipation comic strip by Benjamin Adam, which will appear on January 17, also by Dargaud. It is 2046, the melting of the ice has increased and France is led by a single, religious, conspiratorial and liberticidal party (the children go to Vincent-Bolloré schools). An author brings out an old accreditation for the 66e FIBD (International Comics Festival) in Angoulême-Bordeaux. So imagining that our festival will no longer be completely ours in 2039.
