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This year Alliance Française Dublin and Illustrators Ireland are celebrating 6 years of partnership in
presenting the Fête de l’Illustration & de la Bande
Dessinée, with the support of the French
Embassy in Ireland. Our mutual goal has been to bring
together French
and Irish talent to showcase the growing platform of comics, graphic
novels and narrative art. With the French reputation for outstanding
visual language, and the Irish history of storytelling, this blending
of talents is sure to result in a festival of exciting international
comics work.
The 6th Comic Book Festival Dublin is part of the BD 20>21 initiative which
celebrates the 9ème art
in France and abroad. The Festival will host from 11th to 15th May a
series
of online events including discussions, live readings, a screening and
children’s creative workshops.
Admission is free for all events but
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Tuesday
11 May, 6pm |
Wednesday 12 May, 6pm |
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Meet Jul & Stephen Mooney |
Live Readings
+ Q&A |
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on Zoom
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Live
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We are delighted to open the Festival this year
with a in-depth look at the works of two
major comic artists: Stephen Mooney (Ireland)
and Jul (France) will present their
craft and go through the process of bringing an idea to its
visual iteration.
Two illustrators, two cultures, two different stories,
two
different styles.
Live talks presented by Margaret
Anne Suggs.
Event
in English.
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Illustrators Ireland
& The Comics Lab have selected the most promising indie comic makers
from Ireland and France to bring their comics to life. The experience
is a fully immersive
storytelling event that combines illustration, sound, and
live performance in what feels like a cross between theatre and
animation.
This year’s performers include Sarah
Bowie, Philip
Elliott, Clare
Foley, Debbie
Jenkinson, Julien
Laloy, Elida
Maiques, Melody
Ung, Eoin
Whelehan.
Live talks moderated by Illustrator
Philip Elliott.
Event
in English.
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ADMISSION FREE |
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ADMISSION FREE
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Thursday
13 May, 6pm |
Friday 14 May, 4pm |
Pénélope Bagieu's
'Les Culottées" |
Create a Comic Strip
with BDnF |
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Screening & Talk |
Children Workshop |
| Streaming
on Eventive |
Live
on Zoom
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We will be screening this year 7
episodes of the animated
series Les Culottées (Brazen).
Initially published in Le
Monde Blog, Pénélope
Bagieu's Les Culottées shines a new light on 30 women, each
revolutionary in their own way.
The portraits were
collected into 2 award-winning,
best-selling
graphic novels
that won the prestigious Eisner Awards.
The screening will be followed with
presentations by French directors / animators Charlotte
Cambon
and Phuong Mai Nguyen who adapted the comic book.
Screening
& talk in English.
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Children
from 6 to 9 years old are invited to create their own comic
strip using the free app
BDnF
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BDnF allows users to make comics,
graphic
novels or any other narrative combining both images and text,
drawing from hundreds of graphic elements
(characters, objects, decorations and bubbles) specially designed or
taken from the digital
collection of the BnF
(France National Library).
Everyone will get
to create and export their own comic with the
assistance of Guillaume Clerton
from The French
Library.
Event
in English.
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| Saturday 15 May, 11am |
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Comic Design
with Sarah Cunningham |
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| Children Workshop |
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| Live
on Zoom |
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Irish illustrator Sarah Cunningham
will help children
from 8 to 12 years old to create their own comic strip.
The workshop will focus on character
design and comic
creation. Sarah
Cunningham uses light and colourful images
to discuss serious topics such environment, animal rights,
equality, mental health and body positivity.
Event
in English.
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Sarah
Bowie
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Sarah
Bowie is a cartoonist, illustrator, and co-founder of The Comics Lab
and of Ireland's first Graphic Short Story Prize in partnership with
The Irish Times. Her ‘Socially Distanced’ comic strip, an observational
look at life in a pandemic, updates weekly on Instagram and her latest
picture books are available online now.
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Charlotte Cambon
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Cambon De Lavalette graduated
from L’École des Gobelins in 2012, and from La Poudrière in 2014.
Recently, she directed the short film Dans un petit bateau
for the
collection « En sortant de l’école » broadcasted on France 2, and
animated a movie about French poet Guillaume Apollinaire for the TED-Ed
YouTube channel. |
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Sarah Cunningham
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Sarah
Cunningham is an illustrator from Dublin with a passion for animals,
the environment and spreading positivity. Her work mostly centres
around environmentalism, animal rights, equality, mental health and
body positivity, where she uses colourful images to discuss difficult
topics.
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Philip
Elliott
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Philip Elliott is an illustrator and
designer. Formerly an art director in the advertising business, he has
been telling stories for clients for many years through film, animation
and print. In recent years he has ventured into the medium of comics
for storytelling. He has exhibited his work and illustrated children’s
books. He loves to turn words upside-down and inside-out and will do
anything to illustrate a good pun. He is a member of Illustrators
Ireland and on the organizing committee for this year’s festival.
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Clare
Foley
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Clare Foley is a Dublin-based illustrator and
comic creator. She released her first comic, La Grande
Breteche in 2016, an adaptation of an Honoré de Balzac short
story. This was followed by Frozen Waste (written
by Aaron Fever) in 2017, and the Blood Runs Cold
anthology in 2018 with a number of different writers and letterers. She
has worked on a number of collaborative projects in 2019 & 2020
including with Linen Hall Library & PRONI, and Alliance
Francaise,
and launched the Herpetology Tarot set in March 2020. She is a member
of Rogue Comics Ireland.
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| Debbie
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Debbie Jenkinson is a writer/artist from
Dublin. She
is co-founder of The Comics Lab (now a part of DCAF), and a board
member of Illustrators Ireland. Her comics explore the small
triumphs
and frustrations of ordinary life. Failed romances, overfed cats and
the inner lives of office workers feature again and again,
like Remorse,
a long-form comic about a girl trapped in a call centre job
for ten years. Ghosting,
another romantic misadventure set in Dublin,
won the Irish Comic News Awards Best Overall Irish Comic 2020.
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| Jul
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| Jul is a French illustrator who started off as
a press cartoonist. His first comic book album, Il faut tuer José Bové,
was his breakthrough success. In 2007, he won the Prix Goscinny
for Le Guide du
moutard and then took on the Stone Age with the
series Silex
and the City. Jul also took a detour into philosophy
with La Planète
des sages and Platon
la Gaffe. He has adapted the new adventures of Lucky Luke
with La Terre
promise, Un
cow-boy à Paris and the most recent one is Un cow-boy dans le coton
(2020). He has also published Cinquante nuances de Grecs,
a humorous take on Greek myths which has been adapted into an animated
series for Arte. |
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| Julien
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As
a child, Julien Laloy enjoyed lazy summer afternoons sitting on the
couch at his grandmother’s house in Brussels, reading a big pile of
comics. 40 years later, a French teacher living in Ireland with his
family, he draws comics himself in his spare time, trying to recreate
the great excitement and the feeling of adventure he had reading these
comics.
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| Phuong Mai Nguyen
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Phuong
Mai Nguyen graduated from L’École des Gobelins in 2009, and from La
Poudrière in 2011. As an animation director, she directed several short
films such as the multi-award-winning My Home (Chez Moi),
which has been preselected for the French Césars Awards and shorlisted
for the Oscars in 2016. She has also been in charge of the graphic
design and character design on several short films.
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| Elida
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Elida
Maiques is a visual artist with a strong background in comics. She has
been self-publishing comics since 1999, with some of her work receiving
awards and distinctions. With roots in Guatemala and Spain, she moved to
Ireland in 2003. She is a member of the Stray Lines collective, and was a
panel artist for Dún Laoghaire County
Council 2017-2018, a collaboration which continues.Her work has
appeared in
numerous anthologies and books, including Gods and Monsters
of Tomorrow, Rírá, Polen
and Courageous Mayhem. Her work has been exhibited
in museums and art centres such as CentroCentro Cibeles, Madrid (Spain)
and IVAM (Valencian Museum of Modern Art), Valencia (Spain).
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| Stephen Mooney
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Stephen Mooney is
the New York Times best-selling author of Half Past Danger
from IDW. He provides artwork for Marvel, DC, Image, Valiant, Dark
Horse, Dynamite and many other major US publishers. Stephen has also
written for series such as Star
Trek, The
Phantom, Bettie
Page, and The
Rocketeer.
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Margaret
Anne Suggs
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Margaret
Anne is an Irish-American illustrator. She was recently awarded an Arts
Council Bursary for her illustration work on #irememberbeingachild.
Margaret Anne serves as a Director for both Illustrators Ireland and
IBBYIreland. She is the illustrator for the best-selling, award-winning
Pigin
of Howth series and the third in the series, Pigin's Unexpected Adventure
(Kathleen Watkins, Gill), is available now. Her most recent book is Holy Shocking Saints with Sine
Quinn
(Veritas). This highly illustrated book is a spirited look at the lives
of Irish Saints whose stories are a unique blend of Irish Folklore,
Celtic Myth and Ancient Christianity.
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Melody Ung website
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Melody
Ung is originally from Paris and is passionate about drawing stories
since she was a kid. For many years these comics were only released
among her family and closest friends. After five years working in
online advertisement, she finally decided to make a fresh start as an
illustrator and a cartoonist. She enjoys exploring the thematics of her
double culture (French-/Vietnamese), intimacy and introspection.
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Eoin
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| Eoin
Whelehan is a visual artist from Dublin, working predominantly in the
field of illustration. His work involves themes such as local and
popular culture, folklore, music and narrative storytelling. He is a
member of Illustrators Ireland and Visual Artists Ireland since 2019
and he has been an active member of A4 Sounds Art Studios since 2015.
He has exhibited in The Mill, The Graphic Print Studio, Wexford Arts
Centre Annex, Ballina Arts Centre and A4 Sounds Gallery. His work has
been featured in the Dublin Inquirer (2017 & 2019), and
showcased
by The Irish Art Center in New York (2020). In 2019, himself and writer
Dara T. Higgins were awarded the runner’s up prize in the Irish Times
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Free Online French
Comics
on Culturethèque
Free access for 3 weeks!
(always free for Alliance Française
Members)
Browse through hundreds of French comics and graphic novels
on the online library Culturethèque,
for all ages and tastes, sorted by topics and genres and also including
podcasts from France Culture radio show Le Rayon BD!
The
platform is accessible anywhere from any digital device and offers over
150,000 titles including French books, newspapers, magazines, comics,
recordings, audiobooks, films, documentaries, games, and learning
modules.
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