Approche bédéphile ou approche professionnelle : comment définir le métier de dessinateur de bande dessinée ?

In the 1950s and 1960s, French and Belgian comics authors were organized into various unions whose ultimate purpose was to promote their work. These organizations made it possible for them to meet and to fight for their professional rights. Therefore, they asserted themselves as a professional group...

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Main Author: Jessica Kohn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Paris XIII 2021-04-01
Series:Comicalités
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/6203
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description In the 1950s and 1960s, French and Belgian comics authors were organized into various unions whose ultimate purpose was to promote their work. These organizations made it possible for them to meet and to fight for their professional rights. Therefore, they asserted themselves as a professional group, seeking to be recognized as journalists, rather than as comics authors, especially since their actual practice of the profession was still very versatile. At the same time, the initiatives of bédéphiles, and therefore of comics fans, were of a different kind: they tended to promote not the profession, but the medium itself, by focusing only on comics . This article thus seeks to analyze why the mechanisms of social recognition that bédéphiles offered cartoonists did not align with the corporatist organization that prevailed during the 1950s and 1960s. In other words, were bédéphiles more involved in the invention of the figure of the comics author than the authors themselves?
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spelling doaj.art-e4090bbf804f48dbaecbbea22082ed662022-12-21T22:22:45ZengUniversité Paris XIIIComicalités2117-49112021-04-01Approche bédéphile ou approche professionnelle : comment définir le métier de dessinateur de bande dessinée ?Jessica KohnIn the 1950s and 1960s, French and Belgian comics authors were organized into various unions whose ultimate purpose was to promote their work. These organizations made it possible for them to meet and to fight for their professional rights. Therefore, they asserted themselves as a professional group, seeking to be recognized as journalists, rather than as comics authors, especially since their actual practice of the profession was still very versatile. At the same time, the initiatives of bédéphiles, and therefore of comics fans, were of a different kind: they tended to promote not the profession, but the medium itself, by focusing only on comics . This article thus seeks to analyze why the mechanisms of social recognition that bédéphiles offered cartoonists did not align with the corporatist organization that prevailed during the 1950s and 1960s. In other words, were bédéphiles more involved in the invention of the figure of the comics author than the authors themselves?http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/6203authorcomics fandomunionismprofessionlegitimacy
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Approche bédéphile ou approche professionnelle : comment définir le métier de dessinateur de bande dessinée ?
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title Approche bédéphile ou approche professionnelle : comment définir le métier de dessinateur de bande dessinée ?
title_full Approche bédéphile ou approche professionnelle : comment définir le métier de dessinateur de bande dessinée ?
title_fullStr Approche bédéphile ou approche professionnelle : comment définir le métier de dessinateur de bande dessinée ?
title_full_unstemmed Approche bédéphile ou approche professionnelle : comment définir le métier de dessinateur de bande dessinée ?
title_short Approche bédéphile ou approche professionnelle : comment définir le métier de dessinateur de bande dessinée ?
title_sort approche bedephile ou approche professionnelle comment definir le metier de dessinateur de bande dessinee
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