“Circuit court”, a comic strip inspired by a Var AMAP awarded in Angoulême

2024-01-30 12:30:00

The first pages of “Circuit court” take us to the early 1960s in Japan. Soils polluted with mercury push the population and farmers to consume differently. The beginnings of AMAP (association for the maintenance of peasant agriculture). However, we have to wait 40 years to see this happen in France. And it is in the Var that the first AMAP emerges, near Ollioules, in the wake of Denise and Daniel Vuillon.

This is the starting point of the comic strip written by Tristan Thil and illustrated by Claire Malary (published by Futuropolis). A work rewarded in Angoulême, at the International Comics Festival, alongside the official prize list, by the Tournesol Prize (created at the initiative of the political party the Greens in 1997) which rewards the best eco-friendly comic of the year, in also taking into account narrative and graphic qualities. The jury, chaired by Marie Toussaint, head of the EELV list in the European elections, insisted: “We must remove the barriers built between farmers, environmentalists and consumers.”

A choice that resonates with the news of recent days and raises eyebrows among farmers.

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