The lunch was like a country picknick, with “Cote du Rhone” wine. Famous cartoonists as Mattt Konture or Carali were playing electric guitar under a big tent.

I asked authors how they were managing to make a living out of comics nowadays. Nicolas Poupon said “I make little 30 pages-books so it seems like I draw a lot. My last album “Le Bocal” sells pretty well, but I have to make illustration works also if I want to live. I also try to go to every festival where I can eat for free”.

Then I met a group working on an interactive comic on the web developed in Flash, called Supershoes. This project implies to find a form between comic and animation, including an ounce of interactivity. It should be a kind of boosted comic. Eventually, they will add some video games parts within the frames.

It’s becoming complicated. Today, media are meeting and crossing, there is constant emulsion which leeds to both virtual and plastic forms you can taste and live.

1st New Comic Festival
Date: March 2nd and 3rd, 2002
Place: Coprop Jean Moulin
Address: 8 Avenue Jean Moulin, 26500 Bourg-Les-Valence, France
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