The exhibition is open to a wide audience

Everything begins in New York in 1905, in the "Sunday Pages" of a journal deemed, with the adventures of "little nemo". This child, in the evening, falls asleep, dreaming and appropriates the infinite skyscraper, to be his playground. Its creator, Winsor McCay, and reflects the desire to have the city at hand: to get there, what's better than the band drawn! The exhibition proposed by the city of architecture and heritage in Paris, welcomes us with a spectacular Board of the little prince of the great Apple. Along a gallery masquerading as street begins the exploration of this close, organic link between the art of the BD and the city. Under the sign of three iconic mega-cities: New York, Paris and Tokyo.

New York is an object of fascination in the beginning of the 20th century, a wonderful theatre. Authors of BD will be draw their inspiration to create the superhero, protectors of the citizens. Paris will always be Paris symbol of classicism, with its monumental heritage, the grands boulevards haussmanniens and old poetic streets. And Tokyo, much more contemporary, colourful signs of any kind, inspires the European cartoonists abstraction, while the Japanese authors, through manga, exploit this typical dichotomy of the Japan: the old and the new, calm and the unbridled. Three cities, three moods. With a passage by the universal exhibition of 1958. This major event that takes place in the Brussels capital deeply marks authors and designers, not only Belgian. There is then a historic turning point of the comic strip. The city is projected to a radiant future and barrier of all science fiction fantasies.

The BD creates a story around the streets and buildings it represents reinforces the myth to architecture. Boards, sometimes transformed into tables, plunge us into the atmosphere of the American dream, of the conquest of the West to the frenzied industrialization. The campaign turns into a city suburb, as in this beautiful story of American illustrated in a plate by Robert Crumb The exhibition is not a rigid confrontation between architecture and the BD, and is so much better. The two arts complement one another. A PivotChart look cleverly constructed by the creator of this exhibition, Jean-Marc Thévenet. In total, 150 authors and 350 works are presented. The exhibition is open to a wide audience. It will seduce the neophytes, but some purists will remain on their hunger. The city appears more as a backdrop as a full-fledged character (unlike the "Sin city" BD or Batman "Gotham City").

This large street of the comic strip, ending in an intersection of all possible (a room in the black with many adaptations of the city, more or less abstract), is also chronological. With a few differences. Thus, on 11 September, represented very early in the journey, the first New York part - a major event for all Big Apple as Jean-Marc Thévenet designers could not omit. These hooks may be losing the story Regardless, this rich in sensations and discovery trip is well worth a few detours.