Now the BD found its extension to the cinema

Forgotten the problems of subsidies which had threatened the Angoulême bubbles last fall. The 37th Edition of the international comic strip Festival starts today. With in guests of honour Sempé, Zep, Enki Bilal, Régis Loisel, American Joe Sacco and Robert Crumb. But the world of the comic strip is more bathed in the euphoria. For publishers, 2009 was a year either of zero growth of sales - version GfK - or of slight increase 1 in three quarters, according to Ipsos (figures of the past three months including Christmas are not yet available). In 2008, the turnover of the sector was raised to EUR 320 million. In a stagnant market, the production is somewhat chastened, with 4.863 titles published, including 2.615 news.

Asterix always

Best selling last year leaves no doubt: this is the album released for the fifty years of Asterix, "Asterix and Obelix's birthday: livre le d'Or", sold, according to Ipsos, to best 599.000. But, to celebrate the event, the Publisher Albert René conducted an implementation out dealers of 1.2 million copies. "Blake and Mortimer 19." "The curse of the thirty Denarii" is number two of sales with best 230,000 passed before "Happy Sex" PTA (best 168.000). For the first time, the weight of the manga - these Japanese BD - in sales has however declined 1.6 point, according to the professional journal "Books Hebdo", reduced to 24.6 of the turnover of the sector. This small decrease does not preclude the "naruto" series of purposefulness six of the best fifteen sales in 2009 according to Ipsos.

Now, the BD found its extension to the cinema. "The genus sharpens the imagination of the producers of films," said Claude de Saint-Vincent, Director General of the Franco-Belgian group Média-Participation, first francophone editor of BD. Focused on the big screen with Jean Dujardin to embody one of the most famous Heroes of the world of bubbles, "lucky Luke" has attracted more than 1.7 million spectators in obscure rooms. The shooting of the film adaptation of "Largo Winch" started in Thailand. In the spring, it will be the turn of the series of Joann Sfar "The cat of Rabbi" to be transposed on the big screen (see below).

On mobile phone

The small French world of the 9eart seeks to make the shift to digital. Something in the air of the time. Especially, the hexagonal publishers did not forget that in the Japan the BD and the manga are avidly consumed on mobile phone. At the time, initiatives abound: a hundred albums are available on the iPhone. But in the meantime the famous "tablet" of Apple (read page 22), "what the is either a market or economy", qualifies as an editor. The good model remains to find. Certainty, the color will be essential to take off the market for the BD dematerialised. The idea of a single platform that would bring together the major players in the world of bubbles come his way. "On the micropayment market, must be a unique, if not the reader will not come...". "find a Publisher. Still confidential, the project could be unveiled at the Paris book fair, end of March.