Selection of entertainment 48BD 2025: The comic strip is in, 8th edition celebration on June 6/7 and July 4/5, 2025 (France and Belgium)
The 48 hours BD, it’s:
The comic book, manga and comicseverywhere in France and Belgium. With 300,000 participants each year and a wide, family and eclectic audience, it is a resolutely popular and festive manifestation, with the same approach as, for example, going to book or the music festival. And in 2025, the 48 hours bd celebrate their 13th birthday!A response to the stake of Democratization of reading. Over the years, the event also aims to get out of the places devoted to the book and to seek distant and prevented audiences. An association, made up of 9 Member publishers (Akata, Auzou, Delcourt, Glénat, La Gutter, Jungle, Panini Comics, Sun and West Winds),,who join forces to organize a large national event dedicated to the 9th art.A mobilization of the whole book chain : booksellers, librarians, publishers and, of course, the authors, who are at the center of the system.300 authors who meet their readers and offer more 500 animations Original, playful and varied, around comics, in bookstores and libraries but also in out-of-the-countries, in schools and hospitals, and on the net … All the authors are paid for the animations they lead. What are the participating activities and bookstores? (update list regularly in May 2025)This year, exceptionally, the selection of works proposed in more than 1,500 bookstoresto encourage the public to explore the variety of comics, manga and comics and to discover the bookstore, will not take place. You will find the 250,000 albums published at the public sale price of three euros thanks to the financial investment of the publishers in 2026! An action of mediation in libraries and schools thanks to the supply of a Educational kit on the ninth art, in partnership with Read tomorrowAnd Let’s teach.be.Of the social actionswith album donations to schools, colleges, high schools and libraries (thanks to the recipes generated by the sales of albums at € 3 and the support of our partners) .Chaque year, a partnership is established between the 48 hours BD and a charitable association. After Libraries Sans Frontières in 2016, Cuckoo We Voilou in 2017, then Biblionefde 2018 at 2020, the 48h BD association will have been getting closer to structures. Gepso To promote access to books to children and young adults, through numerous events and meetings of bd.sur this card, you will find, in France & Belgium, the places of entertainment Organized in bookstores, media libraries, schools, festivals or off the walls!
This year, exceptionally, the commercial operation (BD at € 3) will not take place.
Zoom or select your department To display meetings, workshops, exhibitions, drawing battles, dedications … near you. In Belgiumalso ! Do not hesitate to discover them.
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