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“It was an unexpected proposal,” recognizes actress Aïssa Maïga, chosen to be president of the youth grand jury of the 51st Angoulême International Comics Festival, which will be held from January 25 to 28, 2024. “I likes the idea of being at the heart of creation, with this field which has developed within children's literature." Surrounded by Barbara Carlotti, Sophie Guerrive, Alex Alice, Katherine Pancol, Benjamin Muller and Charlotte Foucault, she will be responsible for electing the best youth album of the year. Eighteen titles are in the running, including the excellent Yawns of the Afternoon. After a secret deliberation session, the lucky winner of the 2024 Fauve jeunesse will be announced this weekend.
“I am not a very big consumer of comics,” Aïssa Maïga almost apologizes, which does not prevent her from appreciating the ninth art. And this has been happening for a long time. As a child, she devoured the classics of Franco-Belgian comics, starting with Asterix and Gaston Lagaffe (“Tintin, a little less”). “I had my Smurfs period,” explains the actress, “and I even extended it into adolescence: when I came across an album, I had the pleasure of rediscovering this particular taste of childhood.”
Having become a mother, Aïssa Maïga passes on her passion for books to her children: out loud, she embodies the narrator and the characters of numerous novels, short stories... and of course comic strips, which they will then read themselves. “They read a lot of Tom-Tom and Nana, with their impertinence and their adorable imperfections,” smiles the actress discovered by the general public twenty years ago, in Russian Dolls by Cédric Klapisch.
His latest comic book favorite? Thomas Sankara, visionary rebel (2023), by Françoise-Marie Santucci, Pierre Lepidi and Pat Masioni. “He brought a wind of freedom to Burkina Faso in the 1980s,” explains Aïssa Maïga. My father, who was a journalist, was very close to Sankara. The story of the comic strip is told through the eyes of a young French woman who will discover that her family has a link with this icon of the African continent. The actress mentions in passing her new association which bears the name of her Malian father who died at the age of 33, Mohamed Maïga, which notably supports African journalists and researchers via scholarships.
His favorite comic book is Japanese, it is the famous diptych Quartier distant (2002-2003) by the late Jirô Taniguchi. “This manga takes us to the heart of the total fantasy of time travel, with this question: what would we be able to do if we could return to our past while having all our knowledge adult? It’s universal and so sensitive..." Among his favorite works is also The Richter Scale (2021), by Raphaël Frydman and Luc Desportes. “From the body of a woman murdered in Paris, we discover several parallel worlds of the capital... It’s brilliant,” enthuses the actress, also co-author in 2018 of the “book-manifesto” Noire n’ is not my job.
“I cannot fail to mention the comic strip Aya by Yopougon, which is in its eighth installment,” continues Aïssa Maïga. It is, as I speak to you, on my bedside table. It’s going to be next!” A fan from the start, she even dubbed the heroine in the 2013 animated feature film, directed by the original authors, Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie. “We truly enter the world of an average family in a working-class neighborhood of Abidjan, at the end of the 70s,” assures the actress. Everything is there: the aesthetic of clothing, hair, music... I find something that I am nostalgic for but that I never knew! I tried to transcribe the earthiness of the dialogue as a voice actress.”
More recently, Aïssa Maïga voiced the storyteller of another animated film, The Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess (2022), by Michel Ocelot, director of the famous Kirikou trilogy. “He’s a master, and I weigh my words,” praises the actress. I went to the Annecy festival with him. Entering the projection room, which is enormous, with Michel Ocelot, is like experiencing the stage with a rock star: the reception he received was crazy!” The actress sees cartoon dubbing as “an opportunity to let loose a little, to bring something else... It’s a new playground.”
A comic book that she would see adapted into an animated film? The biography of Olympe de Gouges (2012) by Catel and Bocquet! The vibrant life of this Enlightenment feminist revolutionary certainly does not lack panache...
