Le Club des bandes dessinées

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Le Club des bandes dessinées ( CBD ; French for The Club of Comics ), renamed in 1964 to Center d'Études des Littératures d'Expression Graphique ( CELEG ; about the study center of the literature of graphic expression ), was the first organized association of French comic friends.

The Club des bandes dessinées was founded in May 1962 at a time when in France comics were increasingly no longer viewed as just children's reading, which were sold under the name of the comic artist - d. H. not only developed under the comic title - well-known bandes dessinées d'auteur (author's comics) and comics generally became a self-reflective form of expression ( self-aware form ). The establishment was preceded in July 1961 the publication of the momentous article Bandes dessinées et Science-fiction, l'âge d'or en France 1934-1940 by Pierre Strinati in the influential French science fiction magazine Fiction , which is generally used as the birth certificate for the bédéphilie , the interest in the (French) comics.

The club initially devoted itself to the comics of the thirties and forties, i.e. from the childhood of its members. Two years after its founding, when the club was renamed “Center d'Études des Littératures d'Expression Graphique” (CELEG), however, its field of interest was also expanded and from then on also included contemporary comics. In the same year (according to other information not until 1966), the Société Civile d'Études et de Recherches des Littératures Dessinées (SOCERLID; civil study and research society for drawn literature ), which pursued objectives similar to those of the CELEG (for example Publication of the magazine Phénix ) and later took on his pioneering role.

The CELEG was dissolved as early as 1967, but despite its short existence it is described as "extremely influential".

Members and Activities

The founding members of the Club des bandes dessinées included Nouvelle Vague -Filmregisseur Alain Resnais (u a.. Night and Fog , Hiroshima mon amour ), the vice president of the club was the cartoon illustrator Jean-Claude Forest (creator of Barbarella ), the critic Francis Lacassin and Pierre Couperie , the sociologist Évelyne Sullerot and the journalists Jacques Champreux and Jean-Claude Romer . They nostalgically celebrated the comics of their childhood, but were also interested in further developments. The avant-garde film director Chris Marker , the writer Alain Robbe-Grillet , the philosopher Edgar Morin , the press greats Pierre Lazareff and Paul Winkler (union president of the press agency ), as well as other intellectuals and artists also joined, either at the time of founding or in later years .

The Club des bandes dessinées and later the CELEG as well as Jean-Jacques Pauvert published the quarterly magazine Giff-Wiff , launched by Francis Lacassin, from July 1962 , which takes its name from a mythical animal in Rudolph Dirks ' / Harold Knerr's comic The Katzenjammer Kids had received. Under the direction of Forest as Artistic Director , studies of comic artists and their works from the 1930s and 1940s were published in Giff-Wiff - for the first time in France. Even after the reorientation of Club des bandes dessinées / CELEG, she still concentrated a lot on the thirties, the “golden age” of the Comis. As one of the first publications, she “intellectualized” French comics. The Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco contributed an article, and the comic artist Morris provided unpublished drawings by Lucky Luke . However, the magazine's topics sometimes extended beyond the area of ​​comics, for example with the award of a prize to Chris Marker's avant-garde short film Am Rande des Rollfelds ( La Jetée ) in 1963. With the dissolution of CELEG in 1967, the publication of Giff- Wiff .

In addition, the Club des bandes dessinées and CELEG organized members' meetings and reprinted complete episodes of older comics, for example Flash Gordon , Popeye and Mandrake the magician .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Laurence Grove: Text / Image Mosaics in French Culture: Emblems and Comic Strips . Ashgate, Burlington 2005, ISBN 978-0-7546-3488-1 , pp. 140, 178 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Stripologique. Théorie des littératures dessinées - littérature secondaire - critique. In: The Adamantine - littératures écrites et dessinées. sdv.fr, July 2006, archived from the original on October 27, 2007 ; Retrieved on February 26, 2008 (with reference to: "Bandes dessinées et Science-fiction, l'âge d'or en France 1934-1940", Fiction n ° 92, juil. 1961.).
  3. ↑ a b Tim Pilcher, Brad! Brooks: The Essential Guide to World Comics . Collins & Brown, 2005, ISBN 1-84340-300-5 , pp. 157 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ John A. Lent (1994). Animation, Caricature, and Gag and Political Cartoons in the United States and Canada: An International Bibliography. Greenwood Press: Westport, Connecticut, USA. S. X (English)
  5. ^ Tristan Savin (December 2006 / January 2007). Entretien avec Francis Lacassin. Lire.fr (French; accessed February 26, 2008)