BD BOUM Comics Festival 41st edition

Around the show, you’ll be able to visit 11 exhibitions at venues across the city. Some authors and illustrators will be offering guided tours of their exhibitions.

And if you’d like to hear the artists talk about their art, there will be 15 round-table discussions. Themes range from the Caroline saga to the Futuropolis title. The places of expression will be just as varied, with Studio ZEF radio and Ben Blue’s Bar hosting a debate-concert.

Les Lobis cinemas will be showing 3 films: Rupestres, Angelo dans forêt mystérieuse and Drôles de petites bêtes.

New at

-Escape Game: Children of the Resistance

-BD-Concert: Un peu de bois et d’acier

-Projected readings: Tout mou, La guerre des boutons

Caroline: heroine of the “Trente Glorieuses

Lecture by Christophe Meunier, President of the Association Française de Recherche sur les Livres et Objets Culturels de l’Enfance (French Association for Research into Children’s Books and Cultural Objects)
14h30
Samuel-Paty auditorium – Abbé-Grégoire library
Proposed by the Université du Temps Libre, €5
Like Martine, the character of Caroline is an emblematic figure of children’s literature from the Trente Glorieuses period. She embodies the post-war years, when abundance and consumerism contrasted with the years of restraint.

Screenwriting workshop with Makyo

10am – 5pm
120 €, registration www.helloasso.com
Every year, bd BOUM offers amateur or aspiring authors the chance to be assisted in their writing by a professional. This year, the workshop is led by Pierre Makyo (Balade au bout du monde, Obie Koul, Les deux coeurs d’Égypte…).

Week to combat violence against women

In partnership with the City of Blois
Meetings with IDA, Thursday November 21
The author will meet students to discuss her album Kamalari. The book recounts the life of young Nepalese Urmila Chaudhari, a modern-day slave who became the standard-bearer for a new generation of feminists.

Visit the 11 exhibitions (see dedicated tab)

Rock performance

David Prudhomme and Pascal Rabaté
17h30
Maison de la bd, 3 Rue des Jacobins
To mark the release of the Pigments collective work, David Prudhomme and Pascal Rabaté draw live. The finished work is presented as part of the exhibition.

Exhibition opening

EXPO DU GRAND BOUM 2023: David Prudhomme le principe de la recherche

Curated by Patrick Gaumer & bd BOUM
Exhibition in partnership with
November 22, 2024 – March 29, 2025
Maison de la bd, 3 rue des Jacobins
Opening Friday November 22, 6:30pm
Sunday, November 24, 11am, guided tour in the presence of the author
A taste for keen observation, attention to gestures and the essential little things in our daily lives, a taste for bittersweet comedy, a love of Japan and rogue poets are the hallmarks of his art.

EXPO: Les Drôles de Petites Bêtes

Antoon Krings
Halle aux grains, November 22, 23 and 24
In partnership with Gallimard Gallery
A unique figure in children’s literature, Antoon Krings has been delighting children of all ages for thirty years. Over the course of 73 albums, the artist has brought to life an extraordinary garden and bestiary. More than 70 little creatures live out their tiny lives in a fabulous garden, each more comical, funny and poetic than the last. Each with its own tastes, colors, quirks and mischief…

EXPO: Escapes

Olivier Grenson
Halle aux grains – 1st floor, November 22, 23 and 24
Production bd BOUM
Guided tour Sunday November 24 at 5pm
His collaborations with Michel Oleffe, Carland Cross, Jean Dufaux, Niklos Koda, Denis Lapière (La femme accident) and Sylvie Roge (La Fée Assassine) enable him to infuse all his sensitivity and experience into the features of ambiguous characters, whose outward beauty is matched only by their inner torments.

EXPO: Mounta calà

Mathilde Paix
Halle aux grains – 1st floor
November 22nd, 23rd and 24th
Prix Jeunes Talents – La SAIF 2023
Creative support for comics artists on the road to professionalism
Production bd BOUM
Guided tour Saturday November 23 at 6pm
Born in Cannes in 1997, she entered EESI Angoulême in 2016. During her studies, she began publishing her comics in the form of self-published fanzines. In 2023, she published Jacques Bonhomme with Pain Perdu, a non-profit publishing house based in Le Havre.

Other current exhibitions can be viewed in the EXHIBITIONS tab.

Do It Yourself

Meeting with Seitoung, author of 52 Manifestes pour un Art rebelle 100% DIY, Philippe Morin and Pierre-Marie Jamet, co-founders of P.L.G.P.P.U.R (Plein La Gueule pour Pas Un Rond )
10h30
Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, adult section
These independent publications are created by enthusiasts. Handcrafted, they’re recognizable by their Do It Yourself (DIY) aesthetic.

Carte blanche at Zoo Manga

Hayao Miyazaki
The wizard of Japanese animation
Lecture by Steve Naumann
11h
Samuel-Paty Auditorium, Abbé-Grégoire Library
Since founding Studio Ghibli in 1983, the Japanese master has produced one masterpiece after another: The Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Porco Rosso, The Voyage of Chihiro, Princess Mononoke…

Rupestres

Meeting with David Prudhomme and Pascal Rabaté
Documentary by Marc Azéma, 90 mn
14h
Cinéma les Lobis
At the invitation of the Causses du Quercy Regional Nature Park, David Prudhomme and other artists (Edmond Baudoin, Chloé Cruchaudet, Etienne Davodeau, Emmanuel Guibert, Pascal Rabaté and Troubs) took over a cave and expressed themselves on the wall. Figures, landscapes, abstract drawings, solo drawings, collective works, strokes that will remain etched in the rock in the manner of the men and women who lived there 30,000 years ago.

Studio Zef live

Fréquence 91.10
2pm-5pm
Live from the Halle aux grains for a full afternoon devoted to bd BOUM, with interviews with authors.

Futuropolis: 50 years of comic books

Round-table discussion with Florence Cestac and Louison, authors, and Sébastien Gnaedig, Futuropolis editorial director.
15h
Samuel-Paty Auditorium, Abbé-Grégoire Library
Moderator Lucie Servin, journalist
Founded in 1974 by Étienne Robial and Florence Cestac and temporarily closed between 1994 and its takeover in 2004, Futuropolis has gone through two major periods in the history of comics.

Red Notes

Meeting with Nadia Nakhlé, author
15h30
CRDM, 6 place Victor-Hugo
Moderator Annie Huet
1957. Poland. Anna Kowalski, a concert pianist, returns to her hometown. Haunted by the disappearance of her brother, Dorian, she hopes to track him down. Two crossed destinies: a sister and her little brother, separated during the Second World War.

Journeys to the heart of Europe’s great bazaar

Café historique with Kokopello, author, and Laurent Warlouzet, historian of European integration.
Moderated by Jean-Marie Génard
15h30
Café Fluxus at the Fondation du doute, 14 rue de la Paix
In partnership with Les Rendez-vous de l’histoire and the Europe Ensemble association
An exchange on the European Union, its institutions, policies and issues, with Laurent Warlouzet and Kokopello.

Meeting with Laurent Galandon

Prix Jacques-Lob 2023
Moderated by Kelian Nguyen of ActuaBD
16h
Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, adult section
Laurent Galandon has made a name for himself with strong stories, often rooted in contemporary conflicts. This film and photo enthusiast has won numerous awards, including the Prix Jacques-Lob in Blois.

1984, a date for all lovers of literature and comics

Meeting proposed by ACBD
With Sonia Déchamps, journalist and publisher, Patrick Gaumer, comics historian, Jeanne Puchol, author and Martin Veyron, writer.
Moderator Yaneck Chareyre, ACBD member
17h30
Auditorium Samuel-Paty, Abbé-Grégoire library
1984 is the year bd BOUM and ACBD were born. The festival and the Association of Journalists and Critics have long walked side by side, as old companions on the road. Speakers will comment on the evolution of comics in France over four decades of awards.

Graphic concert

David Prudhomme & Mirtohid Radfar
18h
Cinéma les Lobis
This unique performance brings together David Prudhomme and musician Mirtohid Radfar. A rare virtuoso of the tanbur, a traditional Persian stringed instrument, he masters the art of improvisation. A surprising fusion of music and drawing.

Authors’ guided tours:

• 11am: Lily Pissenlit, Antoon Krings (Halle aux Grains)
• 4:30pm: Anita Conti, Catel and José-Louis Bocquet (Biblio A. Grégoire)
• 6pm: Mounta Calà, Mathilde Paix (Halle aux Grains)
• 9pm: De la Mano à Manu, meeting with Gaston (Ben’s Blues Bar)

Carte blanche at Des Ronds dans l’O

Meeting with Marie Moinard, publisher
Moderated by Benoit Cassel of Planète BD
10h30
Halle aux grains, Bar
Des ronds dans l’O is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The publishing house is developing a humanist editorial line with biopics and historical accounts based on investigations and personal accounts.

Fists on the line

Meeting with Youssef Daoudi, author of Le dernier debout, Karima Gandouz, French educational boxing champion and French amateur champion, and Michel Mothmora, WBF middleweight world champion.
Moderator Loïc Lejay, journalist at La NR
11h
Auditorium Samuel-Paty, Abbé-Grégoire library
No other sporting activity has received so much attention from the 9th art. With its own dramaturgy, boxing is the most tragic of all sports. Every match is a metaphor for life.

Propaganda and comics: Le petit nazi illustré

Pascal Ory, professor emeritus of contemporary history, member of the Académie française
Moderated by Didier Pasamonik of Actuabd
14h30
CRDM, 6 place Victor-Hugo
The only illustrated children’s magazine published from January 1943 to the Liberation, Le Téméraire is unique in the history of the French press. With a print run of between 100,000 and 150,000 copies, it was a Nazi propaganda paper drawn and written entirely by French people.

Ulysse & Cyrano

Meeting with Stéphane Servain, author
Moderator Stéphane Berducat, ACBD member
15h
Auditorium Samuel-Paty, Abbé-Grégoire library
A culinary and human epic in the heart of France during the Trente Glorieuses. Between the quest for self, the transmission of knowledge and gastronomic delights, this captivating tale promises to seduce literary gourmets.

In the shadow of Peter Pan

Christelle Pissavy-Yvernault, researcher in comics history, and Régis Loisel, author
16h
Café Fluxus at the Fondation du doute, 14 rue de la Paix
Interview with a master of the 9th art on the occasion of the publication of a new, revised and expanded edition. Dans l’ombre de Peter Pan benefits from a completely redesigned iconography, based on the author’s originals and archives.

War of the Buttons

Projected reading by Annie Huet with illustrations from the album by Florence Cestac
Based on the work of Louis Pergaud
17h
Auditorium Samuel-Paty Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire
This is a book about nostalgia for childhood, written by Louis Pergaud in 1912 in the Franc-Comtois slang of his youth. Florence Cestac’s drawings give this “children’s” classic a youthful twist.

Authors’ guided tours:

• 10:30 a.m.: Do it yourself, French-language fanzines (Biblio A. Grégoire)
• 11am: Le principe de la recherche, David Prudhomme (Maison de la BD)
• 5pm: Evasions, Olivier Ganson (Halle aux Grains)