BD BOUM Blois Comics Festival

BD BOUM turns Blois into a broad meeting place for comics, bringing more than two hundred authors into contact with readers, schools and publishing professionals. Exhibitions and author encounters place original voices and drawn worlds at the center, while practical art workshops give younger participants direct experience of making images and stories. Conferences, literary cafés and debates create room for criticism, craft and industry questions beyond the signing table. Shows, film screenings and a concert widen the festival’s language without displacing bande dessinée as its core. With thousands of visitors and dozens of exhibitors, the gathering reflects the scale of Blois’s sustained commitment to comics culture. Its prizes and professional program also recognize creation as both an art form and a working field.