Claude Moliterni

Claude Moliterni (21 November 1932 — 21 January 2009) was a French editor, writer, comic book writer, critic, and historian. He was one of the founders of the Angoulême International Comics Festival, in 1974.

Life and career

Education Claude Moliterni studied at the École nationale des chartes. ; in the early 1960 he joined CELEG, a group of comics enthusiasts, from which he left in 1966 to found a rival group, Socerlid, of which he was president and was editor of its magazine, Phénix, until its end in 1977.

He wrote detective novels under several pseudonyms and produced crime series for Radio Luxembourg , as well as recorded books.

Exhibitions and salons In 1965, he organized « Dix millions d'images : l'âge d'or de la BD » (Ten million images: the Golden Age of BD), the first major bande dessinée exhibition in France , held in Paris. . In 1967, he organized at the musée des Arts décoratifs de Paris the traveling exhibition « Bande dessinée et Figuration narrative » , which moved to Angoulême in 1972 , Encyclopédie de la bande dessinée (1974), Histoire mondiale de la bande dessinée (1990), and Les Aventures de la BD (1996) .

In 2000, he cofounded the web website BDzoom. , etc.

Homage Throughout his life, Moliterni worked to promote the recognition and popularity of comic books in France .

For Le Monde, cultural columnist Yves-Marie Labé describes him as “first and foremost, an encyclopedist and a pioneer”.