The Amiens Comics Festival

- 15th Best First Album Prize for Picard sixth-form students

This exhibition showcases the 11 selected albums on which more than 1 000 young people in the Picardy region have worked across 418 schools in three département.
This year, the three students who will have received the most of votes, will be invited to the festival.

• Venues and dates:

University Library, Cathedral Building, on the second floor, from 30th of May to 2nd of June.

- Comic regional competition

"The Arabian night" is the topic of the competition this year. Each participant has to draw one or two boards.
Four ranges of peopleare are participating : from primary school to adults.

This year, the poster of the competition has been made by Thomas Grembert, winner of the 2012 prize.
The competition is open to everyone who lives in Picardy and who has never been published.

• Venues and dates:

University Library, Cathedral Building, on the first floor, on June, the 1st and the 2nd.

- Daniel Goossens exists, I met him

Some authors worked on a very simple question, with simplicity, fun, humor... Why is Daniel Goossens a genius ? Does he really exist ?

• Venues and dates:

University Library, Cathedral Building, on the basement, from 30th of May to 2nd of June.

- The Yaya's walk, Shangaï under the bombs

The french author, Jean-Marie Omont, and the Chinese cartoonist, Golo Zhao, are proposing a succesfull mix of history and individual fate. The exhibition will trace the different steps of their work : drawings, boards, research...

• Venues and dates:

CROUS cafeteria, Cathedral Building, on June, the 1st and the 2nd.

- American comics and its double

Here, you have to look at the comics in a mirror: on one side, a series of historic board. On the other side, their reinterpretation by Robert Sikoryak who plays to subvert the codes of those boards.
By remaking classics of the litterature with a minor art, he develops a two-fold irony.

In the exhibition,the opposits meet to develop a funny and learned look: picture and text, the original and the its remake, the old and the new.

• Venues and dates:

University Library, Cathedral Building, on the basement, from 30th of May to 2nd of June.

- Comics for Matthieu Bonhomme

All the universes of Matthieu Bonhomme, author of the poster 2013, are gravitating around the young Indian Esteban and the South Seas.

• Venues and dates:

University Library, Cathedral Building, on the basement, from 30th of May to 2nd of June.
From April the 11th to June, the 7th, an exhibition will present the main works of Matthieu Bonhomme.
Paul Meyer place and Campus University Library, Picardy Universit.

- Anabaptists passion

At the begining of the 16th century,in Germany, a Protestant sect is puting dogmas into question... Following the scenario of David Vandermeulen, the boards and illustations of Ambre are pontuating the exhibition, reaviling the strengh and the reliefs of a visonary graphic designer.

• Venues and dates:

University Library, Cathedral Building, on the basement, from 30th of May to 2nd of June.

- The lilltle family

For the republishing of the three books, the exhibition invites visitor to play, to paticipate, to exchange, to draw around the characters of the Little family.

• Venues and dates:

University Library, Cathedral Building, on the third floor, June the 1st and the 2nd.

- The Sparrowhawk, let's go for adventure !

Numerus board, researches and watercolors of Patrice Pellerin will show you all the reseach and staging work of a pricese and exigent cartoonist.

• Venues and dates:

Grand Hall of the Louis Aragon mediatheque, from May, the 15th to August the 15th.
And University Library, Cathedral Building, reading room on the first floor on June the 1st and the 2nd.