Comics have just entered the Academy of Fine Arts (thanks to a woman!)

It was time ! The comic has finally entered the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts thanks to the work of the author and former press cartoonist at Charlie Hebdo.

It is a significant event in the history of comics, and we owe it to the work of a woman. The author and cartoonist Catherine Meurice has been “installed” at the Academy of Fine Arts. It is the first time ever that the Ninth Art is represented within the prestigious Academy.

Former Charlie Hebdo cartoonist

Makes you wonder how this couldn’t have happened before. Indeed, it will have been necessary to wait until 2022 for comics are recognized at their proper value among the other arts according to the criteria of the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts.

For 42 years old (an age below the average of her colleagues!), Catherine Meurice officially enters comics at one of the five Academies of the Institut de France, whose goal is to “support creation”. The author had a status of pioneer from 2005year in which she had become the first woman ever to serve on the editorial board of Charlie Hebdo.

An art at the crossroads of all others

Catherine Meurice illustrated dozens of them books for children and has published works that pay homage to artists or writers who inspired her (My men of letters). In Lightnesstries to find peace after the inhuman violence of the attacks Charlie Hebdoin which he lost many of his friends and mentors.

During her investiture on November 30, Catherine Meurice paid tribute to them and also celebrated the richness and legitimacy of comics :

” The painting it feeds it, without suffocating it. The philosophy it embraces it, without enclosing it. The literature and she communicates without dispute. The poetry it radiates it, without burning it. The dance (gesture) joins her. The photography and the cinema enrich it, and the said motor cartoon! or cut! when it suits them, without fear of exorbitant shooting costs. the Theater looks like him. »