FIBDA opened on Tuesday afternoon, and Wednesday 9 October was its first full day. I'm so glad I was able to make it as I walk away from it with exactly what I was looking for, Algerian comics in Derja among which Algerian Love , and a better idea of where Algerian mangas and the Algerian language in writing are heading. The below are works that caught my attention and made it in print and on FIBDA's stands. There was an overwhelming amount of French language comics, a minority of modern standard Arabic, and a few but solid comics in Algerian Derja ( ok, I've only seen one, with another not yet published in full but whose plates were exhibited, yet there could have been 10 more I didn't spot, right ). There is at least one other Algerian Derja comic book in the mix, to be published by next year, written by Nawel Louerrad (who also writes in Arabic). She was present to sign and promote her French album . Z-Link editions promotes Algerian m...
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