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This edition of Carousel of the Arts, we will go to the exhibition on the American Chris Ware at the Public Information Library. We will meet a cartoonist who has broken all the molds: the French Pénélope Bagieu, author of a feminist work. And we’ll talk to Juanjo Guarnido and Juan Díaz Canales, a Spanish duo that has made detective-animal comics fashionable with their popular creation ‘Blacksad’.
France is a country of good readers, and one of the most read and enjoyed publishing sectors is comics. In 2021, 85 million comic book albums, graphic novels, and manga were sold, generating about 900 million profits. And this summer, the Public Information Library at the Pompidou Center for Modern and Contemporary Art in Paris presents a vast exhibition dedicated to Chris Ware, one of the world’s foremost comic strip authors.
For connoisseurs, Chris Ware is almost a living god, the author of an extensive and demanding body of work. In more than three decades of work, Ware has revolutionized the world of comics with books that are considered references such as ‘Jimmy Corrigan, the smartest boy in the world’, which was acclaimed by critics and readers, or ‘Buildings Stories’, among others.
From a feminist cartoonist to a cult saga
The French Pénélope Bagieu is a true ambassador of the “girl power” of French cartoons. Her fictions and biographies speak of atypical, strong and unknown women, in a world where men have dominated for a long time. This is the case of her collection of stories ‘Culotées’ (Valerous), which has been translated into several languages. We met her at the Angoulême International Cartoon Festival.
On the other hand, one of the most successful sagas published in France is, in fact, the fruit of the collaboration between two Spanish authors. Cartoonist Juanjo Guarnido and screenwriter Juan Díaz Canales created ‘Blacksad’, published by the French publisher Dargaud, the adventures of a detective cat that has become a publishing phenomenon. They talked with Carrusel de las Artes.
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