El encuentro anual organizado por el grupo Platinum Age Comics List (desde 1999), que convoca a varios especialistas en el estudio de los orígenes del cómic para presentar sus hallazgos o publicaciones durante el festival de cómic de Angulema.
La edición de 2024 tiene lugar el día 26 de enero, comenzando a las 14 horas en la sede del centro documental del Musée de la bande dessinée d’Angoulême.
Este año contó con dos peculiaridades: el homenaje al gran investigador David Kunzle y la presencia de la ACyT (Manuel Barrero, Félix López y Silvia Sevilla) mostrando a los investigadores los orígenes de la historieta en España.
Tribute to David Kunzle (1936-2024)
The great comics historian, author of books on both 19th century comics and pioneers like Töpffer, Cham and Gustave Doré, passed away on January 1st. We will dedicate this meeting to his memory and work.
Dauntless Dames: High-Heeled Heroes of the Comics, by Pete Maresca
Presentation of the new book edited by Pete Maresca and Trina Robbins for Fantagraphics, an anthology of American comics from the late 1930s to the early 1950s featuring intelligent, intrepid and independent heroines.
The visual genealogies of Adamson/Silent Sam, by Fredrik Strömberg
A look at Adamson/Silent Sam by Swedish artist Oscar Jacobsson (1889-1945), one of the most widely syndicated international comic strips of the interbellum, comparing it to Adamson comics produced by ghost artists all over the world.
In the shadow of Professor Nimbus, by Antoine Sausverd
Presentation of the first French strip format comic, Les aventures du professeur Nimbus, created in 1934 by André Daix and distributed in some 50 countries.
Deutsche Comicsforschung 2024, by Michael Kempeneers
Presentation of the contents of the latest issue of Deutsche Comicsforschung, the German yearly publication for the study of German-tongue comics edited by Eckart Sackmann.
Origins of the Spanish comics (1857-1939), by Manuel Barrero, Félix López and Silvia Sevilla
Overview of the birth and evolution of comics in Spain between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Graphic Narratives, Comic Forms in Europe and Poland up to 1918, by Paweł Chmielewski
Presentation of the book Graphic Narratives, Comic Forms in Europe and Poland up to 1918 by its author on the very beginnings of comics in Poland.
Töpffer's Neapolitan emulator, by Fabio Gadducci
In the late 1840s, cartoon magazines spread throughout Italy, with two of the biggest markets: Turin and Naples. The former was the birthplace of 19th-century Italy's best-known sequential artist, Casimiro Teja, and of the first comic strips published in Il Mondo Illustrato. Naples, meanwhile, is home to a relatively unknown artist who imitated Töpffer, producing the only known booklet to adopt the Swiss artist's format and autographic technique.
