Graphic novel, Heroic Fantasy, science fiction … Almost all kinds of BD are represented on the Great Island, where the practice of this art goes back to the 1960s.
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Jean-Luc Schneider is a happy editor. Present at the Angoulême Festival this year with twenty comics, its small publishing house located at the meeting, bubbles in the ocean (DBDO), will come out in 2023 two beautiful works of Malagasy authors. First of all an adaptation in BD of big brother, from the French writer Mahir Guven, award Goncourt 2018 of the first novel, by Eric Andriantsialonina, said Dwa. Then a life of Arthur Rimbaud that the designer Liva will draw to the ballpoint pen on antemoro paper, typical of Madagascar, scraped at the razor.
“These are two consecrations for us, welcomes Jean-Luc Schneider. Despite the presence of Malagasy authors in the big appointments of the comic, the prescribers and the booksellers still have difficulty considering us other than under the Exotic and friendly angle. “With the Harmattan Africa, DBDO is the only publishing house to represent great island designers. It counts not less than sixteen on its catalog. “Gross diamonds, with a particular paw. They have not been saturated with techniques and references such as their Western peers, even though of course they also have their own models,” says Jean-Luc Schneider, who opened the bookstore. The Maki has a good house in 2018 in Antananarivo.
“There was a golden age in the 1980s”
Because Madagascar is one of the few strong places of the Ninth Art in Africa. Roman Graphic, Heroic Fantasy, Science Fiction … Almost all kinds of the comics are represented since the publication of the first comic book, in 1961. Ny ombalahibemaso, she told, under the pen of the priest writer Antoine de Padova Rahajarizafy and designer Jean Ramamonjisoa, the life of King Andriampoinimoinerina, who unified the Great Island at the beginning of the XIX e century.