This period saw an increased interest in Quebec of local comics , and a number of events were first held : the Salon international de la caricature de Montréal added a comic strip section to their annual exhibit in 1971 ; '' Festival de la bande dessinée de Montréal '' ( " Festival of Comics of Montreal " ) was held for four years starting in 1975 at the University of Montreal ; and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal mounted its first major retrospective of Quebec comics , presented at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in France . Richard Langlois developed a course called " Bande dessinée et figuration narrative " in Sherbrooke that was offered in post-secondary schools throughout the province , which sparked a number of other practical and theoretical courses to be offered in colleges and universities . An issue of the literary journal '' La Barre du Jour '' dedicated an entire 260-page issue to Quebec comics , and certain arts and sociological magazines ran articles on the subject , as well as some popular newspapers and periodicals . A fanzine called '' B.D.K. '' , published by Michel Ouellette and dedicated exclusively to Quebec comics , ran for three years beginning in 1975 . Increasingly over this period , comics became increasingly deeply analyzed , and began to be taken seriously and scholarly as an artform
Angoulême International Comics Festival
Angoulême International Comics Festival
Quebec comics