FIBDA 2019: The United States guests of honor

The United States is the guest of honor of the 12^e edition of the Algiers International Cartoon Festival (Fibda) offering an award of excellence for the best comic book project.

Dyears of the 12^e edition of the International Cartoon Festival of Algiers (Fibda), the organizing committee was to animate a press conference Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 11am at the New Dey Hotel (34 rue des frères Mokhtari, Hussein Dey, Algiers), where should be announced the outline of the program of the event to be held from 1^st October 5th on the esplanade of Riadh El Feth.

The United States are guests of honor this year. Thus, a new prize is planned, the US Embassy's Award of Excellence, for Best Project B. The prize to be won is a participation in San Diego's Comic Con Festival in July 2020. boards is set for September 20, 2019.

In America, comics have a destiny parallel to that which they have just experienced on the Old Continent. From the 1880s to the 1890s, a real newspaper war started: there were 2190 in 1900. The most popular heroes are Popeye, Tarzan, Dick Tracy, Flash Gordon, Mandrake or Prince Vaillant. Designers like Milton Caniff, Alex Raymond and Hal Foster inspire many European writers. The adventures of Mutt & Jeff, two poor guys looking to make a fortune, or the pranks of the two terrible children Hans & Fritz already hold millions of readers, and great writers like Winsor McCay were born.

The daily Daily Strip becomes an unmissable event that no American would miss, not to mention the soap operas published in the supplements of the weekend and which continue from one week to another. Among all these heroes, animals are not long in carving the lion's share. Very quickly, publishers publish their own comic books. It is in this context that a new style is born, nonexistent before the comics invent it: the story of superheroes. Superman is one of the pioneers. Invented by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1934, his first adventure was published by DC in 1938.

It unites from the outset the main characteristics of superheroes: a double identity, super powers, a costume that highlights and a mission: save the world. Readers adhere immediately and, just one year after the launch of the superhero, publishers create a comic book that is entirely dedicated to him. The same year appears its main competitor, also published at DC: Batman. The super detective created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger quickly became as famous as his big brother, and also gets his own series in 1940. A real comic book industry is coming up, the comic book edition has become a successful market.

Superheroes are multiplying and many have since been forgotten, despite the millions of sales they generated at the time.

The comics have diversified, addressing both adults and children. Newspapers publish comics every day of the week and in their supplement on weekends. To meet the demand and produce on time, the authors work collectively in studios and surround themselves with several assistants.

Between 1961 and 1966, Stan Lee developed an impressive troupe of superheroes: the Fantastic Four, Hulk, Spider-Man, X-Men, Daredevil, Iron Man, etc. These new characters seem much more human: love stories, diseases, work, etc. Their personality is gaining depth, and their super powers are sometimes the result of a trivial accident, like a spider that bites our future SpiderMan. It was not until the 1980s to discover new authors, such as Franck Miller and Alan Moore, and see them reclaim the genre. Thanks to them, the comic strip will evolve again. In albums like Batman : The Dark Knight Returns or Watchmen, these authors sketch the portrait of superheroes on the decline, whose legitimacy and methods are called into question.

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