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Discover Angoulême's comic book painted walls. 1 "Natacha et P'tit Bout d'Chique" by François Walthéry - at the corner of rue de l'Arsenal and rue Hergé. This painted wall is the work of Walthéry, a Belgian cartoonist. He began his career as an assistant at the Peyo studio. He worked on Les Schtroumfs and Benoît Brisefer. In 1970 he created, with Gos and Delporte, his heroine Natacha. She is an air hostess who travels to the four corners of the world and who, with her friend Walter, a steward, gets out of a thousand perilous situations... The series has 21 volumes to date. At the end of the 1980s, P'tit bout d'chique appeared. If Natacha is about adventure, P'tit bout d'chique is about poetry and tenderness. Here are the two heroes reunited in this fresco at human level. Year: 1999. 2. "Le Baron Noir" by Got and Pétillon - rue Hergé, near the Caisse d'Epargne. You have to look up to see the Black Baron! This eagle is the main character of Got and Pétillon's comic strip, which won the prize for best album at the 1977 International Comic Strip Festival. "Le Baron Noir" is a comic strip originally published in the daily newspaper "Le matin de Paris" from 1976 to 1981. The comic strip features sheep facing an eagle, the Black Baron, their most terrible predator. This comic strip is a parody and a very funny criticism of our society. Here, in a single drawing, in a single gag, we find all the humour of the series. René Pétillon, the cartoonist, was awarded the Grand Prix at the Angoulême Comics Festival in 1989. Year: 1999. 3. "Gaston et Prunelle" by Franquin - rue Hergé, passage Marengo, 1st floor window. Everyone knows Gaston, the greatest goofball of all time! Here you can see him playing the gaffophone, a kind of huge harp producing sounds that most people find frankly unpleasant. This is certainly the case with Prunelle, Gaston's office manager, who is red as a peony and screams from the window below. Gaston was created in 1957 by André Franquin (1924-1997), a great Belgian cartoonist. Franquin is one of the greatest figures of the French-Belgian comic strip. He was awarded the Grand Prix of the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 1974. In addition to Gaston, he is the "inventor" of Spirou and Fantasio, Modeste and Pompon, the Marsupilami... The adventures of Gaston were not continued after the death of the cartoonist. But we never tire of reading and rereading the incredible blunders of this extraordinary character... The series has been adapted for television. A live-action film, "Fais gaffe à la gaffe! Unfortunately, it is not really successful... Year: 1999. 4. "The World of René GOSCINNY" by MOON and CATEL - at the corner of Rue Goscinny and Rue Jules Michelet. This is the 25th painted wall in the city, and the first representing an author. Created by MOON and the author CATEL, at the request of Anne Goscinny, this monumental work of 270m2 honours René Goscinny by showing him in his workshop surrounded by his most famous creations: Asterix, Lucky Luke, Iznogoud and Petit Nicolas. 5. "1st RIMA anchored in its city" by Fawzi Baghdadli from the Atelier du Marquis - rue du tunnel. The 26th painted wall of Angoulême featuring the 1st Marine Infantry Regiment of Angoulême was inaugurated in November 2020. The wall is located in the rue du tunnel and is visible from the boulevard de la République. This fresco, composed of key elements of the regiment's history, is signed by Fawzi Baghdadli of the Atelier du Marquis. In partnership with the 1st RIMA, the Angoulême Town Hall entrusted the production of the work to Cité Création. 6. "La Fille des Remparts" by Max Cabanes - 5 boulevard Pasteur. This painted wall is a trompe l'oeil. Notice how the artist has used the environment: the stone railing, the windows of the house and of course the landscape offered by the viewpoint that the girl is looking at, as you will too, in a few moments. This painted wall is the work of Max Cabanes, author, among others, of the series "Dans les villages", "Le grec" and one-shots such as "Contes fripons" or "Colin-maillard". Max Cabanes was awarded the Grand Prix of the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 1990. This grand prize is awarded to an author for the whole of his work. Year: 2004 7. "Uderzo dans son cosmos" 10 Boulevard Pasteur This work created by François Boucq and produced by the muralist Moon pays tribute to the father of Asterix and Obelix. At the centre of this huge 200 m2 fresco, Albert UDERZO is sitting at his drawing table from which his heroes emerge. The tribute will be completed by the creation of a menhir at the station. Year: 2021. 8. "Titeuf" by Zep - 43 boulevard Pasteur. The painted Titeuf wall is a reworking of a panel from one of the albums. A complete gag. The wall was inaugurated in 2005, the year Zep was president of the International Comics Festival. It deteriorated very quickly, was restored and inaugurated again, in the presence of the author, during the 2012 festival. Titeuf and his immensely famous fuse is a character created by Philippe Chappuis, known as Zep, a Swiss comic book author. The series includes some 15 albums, translated into 25 languages, which have sold nearly 20 million copies. The adventures of Titeuf have been adapted into a TV series and an animated film written and directed by Zep was released in 2011. Year: 2005. 9. "Mémoires du XXe Ciel" by Yslaire - Square Saint André. This fresco created by Yslaire, nestled in the heart of the city in the Square Saint-André, is probably the most romantic of all the city's painted walls. It is also the most tragic. Looking at this fresco forces us to take a circular look at the whole square and to travel in nostalgia... So why a circular gaze? Look at the shadow on the right, above the figures. Where does it come from? Turn around and look up... Yslaire is a comic book author whose two main series are "Sambre" and "XXe ciel". Year: 1999 10 "Réalité, Sortie de Secours" by Marc-Antoine Mathieu - rue de Beaulieu (opposite n°50). Here you are in front of a real comic strip. In fact, in a few images, the artist offers you a complete story by making perfect use of the wall's support, by playing with it. This is one of the only painted walls in the city, along with the one by Zep, which uses the technique of sequential images specific to comics. This painted wall is the work of Marc Antoine Matthieu. He is the author of the series "Julius Corentin Acquefacques, prisoner of dreams", the first volume of which received the alph-art award at the International Comics Festival in 1991. His album 'Dieu en personne', published in 2010, has received numerous awards. This painted wall, which was badly damaged a few years ago, was recently completely restored. Year: 1999 11. "Backstage of the Theatre" by Dupuy-Berbérian - intersection of rue Carnot and rue J.Rostand. Here you can discover the backstage of the theatre. This painted wall is the work of the four hands of designers Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian. These two met in 1983. They published their first comic book in 1985 and have never stopped working together since. Their flagship series is "Monsieur Jean". It has 7 volumes. Volume 4 of the series, "Vivons heureux sans en avoir l'air", won the prize for best album at the Angoulême Festival in 1999. They received the festival's grand prize in 2008. Dupuy and Berberian are also illustrators. Great travellers, they have also published several travel books. Year: 2006 12. "Voyage au Travers des Images" by Philippe Druillet - 44 rue de Montmoreau (on boulevard Churchill). In Angoulême, the fresco "Voyage au travers des images" conceived by Philippe Druillet and produced by CitéCréation was inaugurated on 31 January 2015, in the presence of the author. Interpretation and artistic treatment of Philippe Druillet's model for the painted wall "Humanoïdes associés" created in 1983, in Angoulême. Year: 1983 - Rehabilitated in January 2015. 13. "Les Pieds Nickelés" by Pellos - rue Jean Fougerat. Drawn in two trompe l'oeil windows, you can recognize the famous "Pieds Nickelés": Ribouldingue, Filochard and Croquignol. These characters were created in 1908 by Forton, one of the French pioneers of the comic strip. They were a huge success and several cartoonists were involved. Among them, Pellos who, after the Second World War, imagined and drew more than 100 adventures of the three companions. In 1937 he also drew what is considered to be the first French science fiction comic strip: 'Futuropolis'. Pellos, who was born in 1900 and died in 1998, received the Grand Prix of the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 1976. Year: 1999 14. "Avec le Temps" by François Schuiten - rue des Frères Lumières. Before becoming a city of images and comics, Angoulême was a city of paper. On the banks of the Charente, in particular, there were many paper mills, including the Nile. This painted wall is a tribute to this industrial past. It is the work of François Schuiten, a Belgian, author, among others, of "Cités obscures" with Benoit Peeters. This series has about ten albums plus numerous special editions. Schuiten was awarded the Grand Prix of the International Comics Festival of Angoulême in 2002 and was president of the next edition of the festival (2003). With Peeters, he also received the prize for best album in 1985 for "Les cités obscures: la fièvre d'Urbicande". Year: 1998 15. "Blake and Mortimer" by Juillard and after E.P. Jacobs - 80 rue Saint Roch. Here are two mythical characters of the comic strip! Blake and Mortimer were created in 1946 by the Belgian cartoonist Edgar P Jacobs. After his death in 1989, the series was taken up by many scriptwriters and artists: Bob de Moor, Jean Van Hamme, Ted Benoit, Yves Sente, André Juillard, René Sterne, Chantal de Spiegeleer, Aubin Fréchon... The series has 17 volumes: 8 drawn by the creator, 9 by his successors. This painted wall is signed by Yves Sente (scriptwriter) and André Juillard (cartoonist), who together produced five of the adventures of Blake and Mortimer. André Juillard received the prize for the best album at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 1995 for "Le cahier bleu". He received the Grand Prix in 1996. Year: 2000 16. "New-York Sur Charente" by Nicolas de Crécy -15 bis rue de la Grand Font. This fresco is huge and very impressive, occupying the entire wall of a building. It has a surface area of approximately 260 square metres. Very dreamlike, it reminds us that the first name of New York was New Angouleme. It was inspired by "New York sur Loire", the third volume of the series "Le bibendum céleste". It is the work of the illustrator Nicolas de Crécy. He graduated from the first class of the Angoulême School of Fine Arts in 1987. He won the prize for the best album at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 1998 for "Léon la cam", with Sylvain Chomet. Year: 2001 17. "L'Archiviste" by François Schuiten - Archives Départementales 24 avenue Gambetta (above Angoulême station). It is not quite a painted wall, but 1 million holes on stainless steel plates reproduce a drawing by F. Schuiten on 2,000 m2 of the façade. The tower of the departmental archives is being transformed thanks to François Schuiten, the Belgian cartoonist. Indeed, 800 stainless steel plates form an image that is related to the mission that the monument houses, namely the departmental archives. 18. "Lucky Luke, the Dalton and Jolly Jumper" by Morris - 58 avenue Gambetta. Everyone knows Lucky Luke, the cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow, Jolly Jumper, the fastest horse in the West and the Dalton brothers: Joe, the meanest, Jack, William and Averell, the dumbest. All these characters were created by Morris, a Belgian cartoonist (1946-2001), in 1946. For the first adventures, Morris wrote the scripts himself, but from 1955 onwards he entrusted this work to René Goscinny. They worked together until the death of the great scriptwriter in 1977. After Goscinny, Morris worked with other scriptwriters (Greg, Bob de Groot...). After Morris' death, Achdé took over the character, surrounding himself with prestigious scriptwriters: Laurent Gerra, Daniel Pennac, Tonino Benacquista. The adventures of Lucky Luke have been adapted into numerous TV series, video games, animated films and live-action films. Year: 2001 19. "Un samedi à Malakoff" by Franck Margerin -153 avenue Gambetta. You are no longer in Angoulême. We are no longer today... We are in Malakoff, in the Paris suburbs, in the 1960s. You are with Lucien, in the street and you watch him go by on his motorbike. Lucien is the rocker with the banana, the favourite character of Frank Margerin, a French cartoonist who won the Grand Prix at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 1992. The series has 12 volumes. Lucien has a rare characteristic in comics: he ages! In the last album published (in 2011), he is 30 years older than in the first volume (published in 1982). Lucien is getting older, but he still makes us laugh! Year: 2000 20 "Sales Mioches" by Berlion and Corbeyran - Rampe d'Aguesseau. This painted wall is the work of Olivier Berlion, a comic book artist from Lyon. In 1992, at the Angoulême festival, he met Eric Corbeyran, a scriptwriter. The two of them hit it off immediately and decided to work together. The series "Le cadet des Soupetard" and "Lie de vin" followed. "Sales mioches" will soon follow. This series of 8 albums takes place in Lyon in the 1960s. In a Prévert and Doisneau-like atmosphere, we follow the adventures of a gang of street kids. They survive in the city thanks to their cunning and small jobs more or less honest. Year: 2003 21. "Le Jardin Extraordinaire" by Florence Cestac - 24 bis rue Pierre Sémard. Here you are in a world of insects and bamboo buildings with real windows... Yes, you are in the world of Florence Cestac. This illustrator and cartoonist works for children and adults alike. She has worked for L'écho des savanes, Charlie, Pilote... She is the author of many works. Her flagship series, "Les Deblok" has 7 volumes. Florence Cestac was awarded the Grand Prix at the Angoulême International Festival in 2000. Year: 2001 22. "La Guitariste" by Loustal - Madeleine roundabout. Don't you feel irresistibly drawn to this painting? This is due to the perfect use of the entire wall surface and the perspective. The viewer is sucked in with the musicians... In a few moments he is on the beach. One dreams of the tropics! This painted wall gathers several passions of Loustal, French draughtsman and illustrator: - The journey first: Loustal is a great traveller. He published many travel books. - The music then: Loustal was often inspired by the music as in "La note Bleue" in comics, or in his illustrations for the magazine "Rock and folk". He is thus at the same time author of comics, great traveller, great illustrator, painter, but also photographer. To date, his work includes more than 80 works, all genres combined. Year: 2005 23. "Chassez le Naturel" by François Boucq - boulevard Duroselle. The animals are charging! In this gigantic 240 square metre fresco, we find one of François Boucq's favourite characters: Jérome Moucherot. This zany insurance agent, dressed in an astonishing leopard suit, was born in 1984, when he made an appearance in the collection of short stories "Les pionniers de l'aventure humaine". In 1994, he became the hero of his own series. Jérome Moucherot lives in a strange world, a jungle whose inhabitants are very similar to animals. This crazy world is the scene of an acid and funny criticism of our society. Boucq received the prize for the best album at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 1986 with "La femme du magicien" and was awarded the Grand Prix in 1998. Year: 2000 24. "Boule et Bill" by Roba - 109 bis rue de Montmoreau. Boule and Bill are swinging on the gable of a house. This is the painted wall created by the Belgian cartoonist Roba (1930-2006). His two famous characters were born in 1959. Jean Roba drew dozens of albums of the adventures of Boule and Bill. The drawing was taken over by Laurent Veron. In addition to the comic books, Boule and Bill are the heroes of TV series. A live-action film about their adventures, starring Marina Foïs and Franck Dubosc, was released in 2013. Year: 2001 25 "Cubitus" by Dupas - 250 rue de Montmoreau. This is a gag about Cubitus. This big white dog was born in 1968 from the brush of Dupa, a Belgian cartoonist (1945-2000). Cubitus walks on two legs and talks. What he likes most of all is to eat, sleep and annoy the cat Sénéchal, his best enemy. Dupa drew 39 albums of Cubitus. After his death, the character was taken over by Michel Rodrigue (cartoonist) and Pierre Aucaigne (scriptwriter). The series is now called "Les nouvelles aventures de Cubitus" and has about ten albums. Year: 2000 26 "Les Héros de la BD" by Erro - boulevard Jean Moulin (opposite the Pierre Bodet college). On the façade of the boulevard Jean Moulin, even from a distance, you can't miss it: a multitude of colourful heroes, from Batman to Lucien, passing by Tintin, Lucky Luke or Natacha. Year: 1982 27 "Kirikou" by Michel Ocelot - intersection of rue de Saintes and rue Saint Cybard. The little character of Kirikou is running on the wall dedicated to him. He runs so fast that he leaves a trail of luminous dust in his wake. Blue diodes light up one after the other to mark the speed. Year: 2013 28. Turf's "Le Défilé" - on 3 buildings (D, E and F) on Boulevard Jean XXIII. A zany parade on three neighbouring building facades with the particularity of being read differently by day and by night. On one side the royal parade, on the other the people's parade (lit up at night), i.e. about a hundred characters. Year : 2014 Design and production: ©Citécréation Don't forget the Obelisk of Obelix's father on the station square! It was the René-Goscinny Institute that initiated its creation. This comic book obelisk, created to pay tribute to René Goscinny, the scriptwriter of Asterix, was erected on the square in front of Angoulême station. The monument weighs 7 tons and is 4.5 metres high. It features cult replicas from the Asterix albums. In total, there are 82 quotes from the scriptwriter's works, including Asterix, Lucky Luke, Iznogoud, Le Petit Nicolas, Les Dingodossiers, etc. Some of these phrases are familiar to us: "They're crazy, those Romans", "Be afraid that the sky will fall on your head", "Shoot faster than your shadow"... This monument is a tribute to the entire comic strip. This work - the largest monument in Europe dedicated to comics - was sculpted by a stone mason from the Luberon, Gaspard Lepelerie.