Association
L'Association in Paris from 1990 and the French wave around it: Lapin, David B., Lewis Trondheim, Joann Sfar, Marjane Satrapi.
Part of Underground Comics
49 moments in this segment.
- - Moebius - The Masters of Comic Art. From Ken Viola's survey of the creators who reshaped comics in the 1980s, Jean Giraud describes how a page arrives when he draws without a script.
- - Moebius: Artist as Warrior. A short passage in which Jean Giraud casts the artist as a combatant, taken from the same 1987 survey of comic art.
- - Jean Giraud Moebius - Prisoners of Gravity. A television profile of Jean Giraud tracing the Metal Hurlant years and the science fiction pages that carried his Moebius signature into English-language print.
- - Jean Girand (Moebius) from DFF April 1992, part 1 of 6. Jean Giraud talks with Mark David Dietz and Randy Lofficier about the work he signed as Moebius, from Arzach to the open-ended Airtight Garage. Giraud died in 2012.
- - The MOEBIUS 1997 Shoot Interview by David Armstrong. A long-form interview with Jean Giraud covering the split between his Blueberry westerns and the science fiction he drew as Moebius, and the film design work that followed.
- - Trondheim at the Comedie du Livre. The co-founder of L'Association photographed at the Montpellier book fair, where comics share the programme with prose publishing.
- - Angoulême 2009 - Interview Christophe Blain. Christophe Blain is interviewed at the Angouleme festival about his current books and his approach to drawing. Thin surrounding detail beyond the setting and the subject.
- - Sollies-Ville, 2009. Trondheim at the Comic Strip Festival in Sollies-Ville, a small Var hill town whose festival has run since the 1980s.
- - O Tour de la Bulle, Montpellier. Trondheim at the 2009 edition of the Montpellier comics festival, one of the regional events that circulate French authors outside Angouleme.
- - Master Class de Blutch (1/2) - Fnac Paris Forum. Blutch gives a masterclass at the Fnac Paris Forum on 20 January, in French, in his year as president of the Angouleme festival. This is the first of two parts.
- - L'Association a 20 ans. Jean-Christophe Menu is interviewed for Arte Journal in June 2010 as L'Association, the publishing collective he co-founded, reaches twenty years.
- - Chicken with Plums on the Red Carpet. Marjane Satrapi, who died in June 2026, presents Chicken with Plums, her film follow-up to Persepolis, at its Middle East premiere.
- - Sfar at the Radio France book fair. The author of Le Chat du Rabbin photographed on 26 November 2011, a year when his output ran to several volumes.
- - Marjane Satrapi in "Beginnings" by Chiara Clemente. Marjane Satrapi talks about her childhood in Iran and the early years that fed her work, filmed as part of Chiara Clemente's Beginnings series. The account stays with her own formation rather than any single book.
- - Two founders signing together. Lewis Trondheim and David B. sign at the L'Association stand during the 2013 Angouleme festival, twenty three years after the imprint was founded.
- - Edmond Baudoin - le livre « Dali par Baudoin » (2012). Edmond Baudoin discusses Dali par Baudoin, his 2012 book on the painter, at the Cite internationale de la bande dessinee.
- - Ragemag - Entretien avec Joann Sfar, première partie : la bande-dessinée. Joann Sfar discusses digitisation, the state of the bande dessinee market and his own relationship with the Angouleme festival.
- - Signing at Lausanne. Trondheim at the Swiss festival BD-FIL in September 2013, one of the French-language circuit's regular stops.
- - Trondheim and Findakly at BD-FIL. The two collaborators sign at the Lausanne festival, six years before their jointly made memoir Coquelicots d'Irak.
- - David B. at Erlangen. The author of L'Ascension du Haut Mal at the German Comic-Salon in 2014, a biennial event held in Bavaria since 1984.
- - Sfar at Nancy. The author at the Livre sur la Place fair in 2015, a general literary event where comics have a standing presence.
- - Entrance to the Menu exhibition. The 2016 festival devoted a show to Jean-Christophe Menu, who co-founded L'Association in 1990 and left it after the 2011 dispute over its direction.
- - David B. in 2016. A portrait made at Angouleme, the year the author's work with Fabrice Neaud and others was drawing renewed attention.
- - David B. - Mon frère et le roi du monde. David B. presents Mon frere et le roi du monde, published by L'Association with a preface by Philippe Vasset, during the 2016 Angouleme festival.
- - The L'Association stand. The imprint's booth in the hall New York during the 44th Angouleme festival, a stand it has held since its early years.
- - Conversation with Marjane Satrapi and Art Spiegelman. Marjane Satrapi and Art Spiegelman talk about drawing a life onto the page, in a conversation moderated by Francoise Mouly. Both authors work through how comics handle autobiography and historical testimony.
- - Pour une histoire de la bande dessinée : 6/10 Le triomphe du roman graphique. Benoit Peeters traces competing origin stories for the graphic novel, from Will Eisner's A Contract With God in 1978 through Maus to Frank Miller and Alan Moore in 1986.
- - Bande Dessinée Today: Contemporary French Comics / TCAF 2018. A Toronto Comic Arts Festival panel on contemporary French comics, with Brigitte Findakly, Lewis Trondheim, Thomas-Louis Cote, David B., Julie Rocheleau and Yvan Alagbe answering questions from Bart Beaty about their work and the current publishing landscape.
- - Rencontre avec Emmanuel Guibert. Sonia Dechamps interviews Emmanuel Guibert about his work in bande dessinee, at the Bibliotheque publique d'information. Guibert speaks about how he builds his books.
- - Sfar signing in Nancy. The author at the Livre sur la Place in 2018, working through a queue at the open-air stands.
- - La Masterclasse de Riad Sattouf - France Culture. Riad Sattouf works through the making of L'Arabe du futur and Les Cahiers d'Esther, and how childhood memory gets turned into sequential pages.
- - Blutch : Réinventer Tif & Tondu | Festival d'Angoulême 2020 | VANITY FAIR. Blutch discusses taking on Tif et Tondu, two long-running Franco-Belgian series characters, after years of avoiding recurring figures. He talks about drawing between abstraction and cinema, the pull of the peplum and of Alain Resnais, and autobiography disguised as dream.
- - Menu at Angouleme 2020. The publisher photographed nine years after he left L'Association to run L'Apocalypse.
- - LA LECTURE DES RUINES - David B, guerre et mysticisme. La lecture des ruines by David B., published by Dupuis, is read for its handling of war and mysticism.
- - Trondheim exhibition, 2020. The author photographed at the show devoted to his work during the 2020 Angouleme festival.
- - CXC 2021 - Spotlight on Lewis Trondheim. Jeff Smith and editor Thierry Mornet question Lewis Trondheim on how comics publishing has shifted in France and the United States, and the session closes with a walk through Trondheim's studio.
- - L'Art de Christophe Blain vu par Michel Hazanavicius. Director Michel Hazanavicius speaks about Christophe Blain ahead of the Angouleme exhibition devoted to Blain's drawing, describing how Blain's line and staging work on the page.
- - Têtes d’affiche du festival d’Angoulême : Christophe Blain et Fanny Michaëlis. Christophe Blain, twice winner of the best album prize at Angouleme, and Fanny Michaelis discuss what other art forms bring into bande dessinee and what positions a cartoonist can take.
- - Nancy, 2022. Sfar at the Livre sur la Place, where the outdoor marquees put authors directly in front of passing readers.
- - Rencontre dessinée avec Lewis Trondheim. Lewis Trondheim draws live in front of an audience in Herault, tied to an exhibition of the enormous and formally varied body of work he has produced.
- - Talk and signing in Reims. Sfar at the Falala media library, a format that pairs a public conversation with a signing session.
- - Interview de Blutch pour "La mer à boire". Blutch is questioned by Herve Levy about his book La mer a boire, in French, in a bookshop setting ahead of a signing.
- - Blutch - La mer à boire. Blutch presents La mer a boire, published by Editions 2024, during the 2022 Angouleme festival.
- - Bascule #10 : « Faire de chaque projet un nouveau défi », avec Lewis Trondheim. Lewis Trondheim traces his path in French, from the fanzine he started out with to his first books, the years of proving himself as a young author, and the Angouleme prize that changed his standing. Chapter markers follow the stages.
- - L'Association : la bande à Menu 5. L'Association published Persepolis and the Comix 2000 anthology and has carried more than fifteen Angouleme Grand Prix winners, surveyed here along with its Ciboulette and Oubapo collections.
- - IRAN FRANCE GRAPHIC NOVELIST MARJANE SATRAPI. Marjane Satrapi, who died in June 2026, connects the Woman Life Freedom protests that followed the 2022 killing of Jina Mahsa Amini to the punk culture and multiple languages she drew on.
- - Robial and Menu signing. The designer Etienne Robial, who founded Futuropolis in 1972, signs alongside Jean-Christophe Menu at the Salon des Ouvrages sur la bande dessinee.
- - Trondheim at Erlangen. The French author, born 1964, at the German Comic-Salon, still touring the European festival circuit.
- - XAVIER COSTE, 1984, ANTOINE DE CAUNES, LOUVRES... L'INTERVIEW BD LA PLUS CHILL DE L'ANNÉE. French cartoonist Xavier Coste is interviewed about Sculpter l'eternite, made with the Louvre for Rue de Sevres, and about his earlier adaptations including 1984 and his collaboration with Antoine de Caunes. Chapter markers cover mentors, influences and working method.