In 1943, in the pages of the Belgian weekly Bravo!, a certain Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs embarked on a saga entitled Le Rayon “U”. It was intended to succeed the adventures of “Flash Gordon”, banned by German censorship. The infamous Captain…
Johan and Pirlouit ‘s 10th album, La Guerre des 7 Fontaines, is a key album in Peyo’s career. Firstly because it constitutes the pinnacle of his artistic production, one of those magical moments when Franco-Belgian comics are at their peak. Then because it is…
With Natacha, The Air Hostess (1970), François Walthéry and Gos created the first heroine of popular Franco-Belgian comics. The birth of this beauty is due as much to chance as to the talent of two authors, then almost unknown. Natacha…
Milo Manara celebrates 2019 as his fifty-year career. From his beginnings in the tumult of the Italian years to his biography of Caravaggio, through his collaborations with two of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, Hugo Pratt and Federico…
Michel Vaillant is about to race during the Monaco F1 Grand-Prix, aboard a Vaillante. We discover that a mysterious driver is testing on the Francorchamps circuit. Nobody saw his face, which he needs the name of the driver without a…
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Tillieux, find Gil Jourdan, star character of the comic strip in the album Libellule s’évade in prestige edition! This rich, luxurious and documented work reproduces original drawings and plates…
A pioneer of American genre comics, Wallace Wood (1927-1981) was a virtuoso and visionary author. He left a deep mark on science fiction, fantasy, humour and erotic comics throughout a rich and unclassifiable career, to which the Festival is dedicating…
The three formulas of Professor Sato is a story of Blake and Mortimer in two volumes. This is the last adventure of these characters realized by Edgar P. Jacobs. Jacobs began this story, which will make up volumes eleven and…