Le Club des bandes dessinées
Le Club des bandes dessinées (CBD; French for The Club of the comics ), 1964 renamed the Centre d' Études d' expression of Littératures Graphique ( CELEG; study center about the literature of the graphical expression ), was the first organized association of French comic friends.
The Club des bandes dessinées was founded in May 1962 in a time when were increasingly no longer regarded in France Comics only as children reading, the under the name of the comic artist - that no longer is, only under the comic title - known band dessinées d ' auteur ( graphic novels ) developed and comics generally reflected a self- expression ( self-aware form) were. The foundation was preceded in July 1961, the publication of the momentous article Bandes dessinées et Sci-fi, l' âge d'or en France 1934-1940 by Pierre Strinati in the influential French science fiction magazine fiction, commonly known as a birth certificate for the bédéphilie, is considered the interest in the ( French ) comics.
The club devoted himself at first but the comics of the thirties and forties, so from childhood of its members. Was renamed two years after its founding, when the club in the "Centre d' Études d' expression of Littératures Graphique " ( CELEG ), but also his interest in the field has been expanded and included now on the contemporary comics. In the same year ( according to other sources until 1966 ) it came to the elimination of the Société Civile d' Études et de Recherches of Littératures Dessinées ( SOCERLID; Civilian about study and research company of the subscribed literature) that have similar goals as the CELEG pursued (z. example, publication of the magazine Phenix ) and later took over its leadership.
As early as 1967 the CELEG was disbanded, but is referred to in spite of its short existence as "extraordinarily influential ."
Members and activities
Among the founding members of the Club des bandes dessinées included Nouvelle Vague film director Alain Resnais ( inter alia Night and Fog, Hiroshima, mon amour ), Vice President of the club, was the cartoonist Jean -Claude Forest ( creator of Barbarella ), the critic Francis Lacassin and Pierre Couperie, the sociologist Évelyne Sullerot and journalists Champreux Jacques and Jean -Claude Romer. They left their childhood nostalgic comics high life, but also for further developments. Either in the foundation or in later years, also joined the avant-garde film director Chris Marker, the writer Alain Robbe- Grillet, the philosopher Edgar Morin, the press sizes Pierre Lazareff and Paul Winkler ( union president press agency ) and other intellectuals and artists.
The Club des bandes dessinées or later the CELEG and Jean -Jacques Pauvert gave in July 1962, the quarterly publication, launched by Francis Lacassin magazine Giff - Wiff out, taking its name from a mythical animal in Rudolph Dirks ' / Harold Knerrs Comic The Katzenjammer Kids had received. Under the leadership of Artistic Director as Forest were in Giff - Wiff - for the first time in France - first published studies on cartoonists and their works of the thirties and forties. Even after the re-orientation of the club band dessinées / CELEG they focused a lot on the thirties, the " Golden Age " of the Comis. As one of the first publications " intellectualized " they, the French comics. The Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco contributed an article, the cartoonist Morris presented unpublished drawings by Lucky Luke available. The topics of the magazine ranged but sometimes also beyond the realm of comics addition, about the award of a prize to Chris Marker avant-garde short film on the edge of the taxiway (La Jetée ) 1963. With the dissolution of CELEG 1967 also ended the publication of Giff - Wiff.
In addition, the club organized the band dessinées or CELEG members meeting and printed full episodes of older comics novel, for example Flash Gordon, Popeye and Mandrake the Magician.