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Angoulême International Comics Festival Humour Award
The Humour award was presented to a comic at the Angoulême International Comics Festival from 1989 until 2001. 1980s * 1989: ''Les vieux copains plein de pépins'' by Florence Cestac 1990s * 1990: ''Raoul Fulgurex: Le secret du mystère'' by Tronchet and Gelli (comics), Gelli * 1991: ''Le pauvre chevalier'' by F'Murr * 1991 (joint winner): ''L'encyclopédie des bébés part 3'' by Daniel Goossens * 1992: ''Le Petit Spirou'' by Philippe Vandevelde, Tome (author) and Jean-Richard Geurts, Janry (artist), Dupuis * 1993: ''Raymond Calbuth'' by Tronchet * 1994: ''Les Closh: Le grand karma'' by Radis and Bobo (comics author), Bobo, Les Humanoïdes Associés * 1995: ''La vache: A mort l'homme, vive l'ozone'' by Johan De Moor and Stephen Desberg, Casterman * 1996: ''Poignées d'amour'' by Willem * 1997: ''Le démon de midi'' by Florence Cestac * 1998: ''Jean-Claude Tergal: Portraits de famille'' by Tronchet * 1999: ''Agrippine et l'ancêtre'' by Claire Bretécher 2000s * 2000: ''Blotch ...
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Angoulême International Comics Festival
The Angoulême International Comics Festival (AICF; ) is the second largest comics festival in Europe after the Lucca Comics & Games in Italy, and the third biggest in the world after Lucca Comics & Games and the Comiket of Japan. It has occurred every year since 1974 in Angoulême, France, on the last week end of January. History The Angoulême International Comics Festival was founded by French writers and editors and Jean Mardikian, and comics writer and scholar .Pasamonik, Didier"Disparition de Claude Moliterni, fondateur du Festival d’Angoulême ,"'ActuaBD'' (Jan. 21, 2009). Moliterni served as co-organizer of the festival through 2005. Attendance Over 200,000 visitors attend the fair every year, including between 6,000 and 7,000 professionals including approximately 2500 authors and 800 journalists. The attendance is generally difficult to estimate because the festival takes place all over town, and is divided in many different areas that are not connected to e ...
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Bobo (comics Author)
Bobo may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Comic strips * ''Bobo'' (Belgian comics) * ''Bobo'' (Italian comics) * ''Bobo'' (Swedish comics) Fictional characters * Bobo the Bear, in ''The Muppets'' series * Professor Bobo, from ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' * Bobo Gigliotti, the psychotic boss of "Fat Pizza" from the Australian comedy TV series ''Pizza'' and ''Fat Pizza'' * Bobo, pet cat of Doris Husselmeyer in the comic strip ''Piranha Club'' * Bobo Peterson, a character in the 1992 TV comedy '' Revenge of the Nerds III'' Music * BoBo (band), a Chinese boy band formed in 2007 * "Bobo" (J Balvin song), 2016 * "Bobo" (Olamide song), 2015 * "Bobo" (Aya Nakamura song), 2021 * "Bobo", a 2021 song by Bad Gyal, Mariah Angeliq and María Becerra * "Les Bobos", a 2006 song by Renaud Other arts, entertainment and media * ''The Bobo'', a 1967 film starring Peter Sellers * ''Bobo'' (magazine), a Dutch and Indonesian children's magazine which follows the adventures of ...
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Blutch
Blutch, pen name of Christian Hincker (born 27 December 1967 in Strasbourg) is a French comic book author. He is considered one of the main authors of French comics since the early 1990s. Biography After studying at the École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg, Blutch was discovered through a competition organized by the monthly magazine ''Fluide Glacial''. He got his nickname from a classmate for his physical resemblance to Corporal Blutch, one of the characters of the comic series '' Les Tuniques Bleues''. His first strips appeared in Fluide Glacial between 1988 and 1993 (Pecos Jim, Waldo's Bar, Mademoiselle Sunnymoon).  From 1993 he was part of the circle of cartoonists working for the independent comic book publisher L’Association.  In 1996 he joined A Suivre magazine, where he designed the historical ''Péplum'' series.  ''Rancho Bravo'' (with Jean-Louis Capron) and ''Blotch'' (two issues), a satirical portrait of Fluide Glacial magazine and its illu ...
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Blotch
A stain is a discoloration that can be clearly distinguished from the surface, material, or medium it is found upon. They are caused by the chemical or physical interaction of two dissimilar materials. Accidental staining may make materials appear used, degraded or permanently unclean. Intentional staining is used in biochemical research, and for artistic effect, such as in wood staining, rust staining and stained glass. Types There can be intentional stains (such as wood stains or paint), indicative stains (such as food coloring dye, and staining, the use of one or more substances to enhance visibility of samples in a microscope or other imaging device. Numerous naturally-occurring stains exist, such as rust on iron and a patina on bronze, as do accidental stains such as from ketchup and oil on fabrics and other materials. Different types of material can be stained by different substances, and stain resistance is an important characteristic in modern textile engineering. ...
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Claire Bretécher
Claire Bretécher (; 17 April 1940 – 10 February 2020)
on Lambiek Comiclopedia was a French , known particularly for her portrayals of women and gender issues. Her creations included the satirical comic series '' Les Frustrés'', and the unimpressed teenager '' Agrippine''.


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Bretécher was born in and raised in a

Agrippine Et L'ancêtre
Agrippine may refer to: * Agrippine (comics) * Agrippine (TV series) ''Agrippine'' is a French animated series, adapted from the comic strip by Claire Bretécher it was debuted on 12 November 2001 on Canal +. Bretécher was not involved in the project, and was not impressed with the results. Synopsis This se ...
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Jean-Claude Tergal
Jean-Claude is a French masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: People called Jean-Claude * Jean-Claude Ades, an Italian electronic music producer * Jean-Claude Alibert (died 2020), a French racing driver * Jean-Claude Amiot (born 1939), a French composer, music professor and conductor * Jean-Claude Andruet (born 1940), a French professional rally driver * Jean-Claude Bajeux (1931–2011), a professor and director of the Ecumenical Center for Human Rights in Port-au-Prince, Haiti * Jean-Claude Baker (1943–2015), a French-born American restaurateur * Jean-Claude Barreau (1933–2025), a French essayist and writer * Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais (born 1967), a Swiss entrepreneur with strong connections to Angola * Jean-Claude Beaulieu (born 1944), a member of the National Assembly of France * Jean-Claude Bergeron (born 1968), a retired Canadian ice hockey goaltender * Jean-Claude Bertrand (born 1954), a retired French badminton player * Jean-Claude Biv ...
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Willem
Willem () is a Dutch name, Dutch and West Frisian language, West FrisianRienk de Haan, ''Fryske Foarnammen'', Leeuwarden, 2002 (Friese Pers Boekerij), , p. 158. masculine given name. The name is Germanic languages, Germanic, and can be seen as the Dutch language, Dutch equivalent of the name William (name), William in English language, English, Guillaume (given name), Guillaume in French language, French, Guilherme in Portuguese language, Portuguese, Guillermo in Spanish language, Spanish and Wilhelm (name), Wilhelm in German language, German. Nicknames that are derived from Willem are Jelle, Pim (name), Pim, Willie, Willy (other), Willy and Wim. Given name *Willem I of the Netherlands, Willem I (1772–1843), King of the Netherlands *William II of the Netherlands, Willem II (1792–1849), King of the Netherlands *William III of the Netherlands, Willem III (1817–1890), King of the Netherlands *William, Prince of Orange, Willem of the Netherlands (1840–1879), Dutch pri ...
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Casterman
Casterman is a publisher of Franco-Belgian comics, specializing in comic books and children's literature. The company is based in Tournai, 90 kilometres southwest of the centre of Brussels, Belgium. History The company was founded in 1780 by Donat-Joseph Casterman, an editor and bookseller originally from Tournai.Bocquet, José-Louis, and Fromental, Jean-Luc. ''The Adventures of Hergé'' (Drawn and Quarterly, 2011). Casterman was originally a printing company and publishing house. In 1934, Casterman took over the ''Le Petit Vingtième'' editions for the publication of the albums of ''The Adventures of Tintin'', from the fourth album of the series, ''Cigars of the Pharaoh''. From 1942, Casterman published reworked versions and colored versions of the previous Tintin albums. Strengthened by the success of Hergé's comics, shortly after, Casterman proposed new series with new authors such as Jacques Martin (comics), Jacques Martin, François Craenhals and C. & V. Hansen. From 1954 o ...
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Stephen Desberg
Stephen Desberg (born 10 September 1954 in Brussels) is a Belgian writer of comics. In 2010, he was the 10th bestselling author of comics in France, with 412,000 copies of all his comics together sold that year. Biography Stephen Desberg was born in Brussels in 1954 as the third child of an American lawyer from Cleveland and a French mother who taught him French at the University of Paris, Sorbonne after the Liberation of Paris. They settled in Brussels when Stephen's father became responsible for the distribution of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films in Belgium, Luxemburg and the Netherlands. After finishing college two years late, he studied law at the Université libre de Bruxelles, but didn't finish his studies. His youth was mainly dominated by American movies, but he also enjoyed the weekly ''Spirou (magazine), Spirou'' magazine with series like ''Buck Danny'' or the works of Raymond Macherot. He only discovered the authors who published in the main competitor ''Tintin (magazine), T ...
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