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SUMMARY:Comics and Freemasonry
DESCRIPTION:Seven approaches to Freemasonry in a selection of comics from 1981 to the present day.\nThis exhibition presents an extract from a collection of over 200 French-language comic strips that deal with Freemasonry\, either explicitly or more symbolically. It demystifies the Order by presenting stories that explore Masonic symbols\, rituals and values from a more accessible and less sensationalist perspective.\nThe comic strip format\, with its mix of text and images\, helps to popularise complex concepts and make them understandable to a wide audience\, including the uninitiated. \nThe exhibition is structured around large explanatory posters on: \n\nA history of comics starting with the Genevan Rodolphe Töppfer\nThe stages involved in making a comic strip\nSome scriptwriters and illustrators: Hugo Pratt\, the teams around Willy Vassaux and Didier Convard\, Arnaud de la Croix and François Morel\nSeven different approaches to Freemasonry in French-language comics\, with many examples: furtive\, humanist\, historical\, detective\, esoteric\, conspiracy and humorous\n\n \nThe exhibition is rounded off by 40 original comic strips\, from Fable de Venise (1981) to the graphic novel Grand Orient (2020)\, as well as masonic humour drawings by François Morel and Jiho. Finally\, a presentation\, based on excerpts from the comic strip\, answers seven questions from the general public about Freemasonry.\nA brochure in French and German will be on sale\, with articles by Dominique Alain Freymond\, Arnaud de la Croix\, Joël Gregogna\, Jack Chaboud and an interview with Didier Convard. \nConferences and book signings: \n\nOn Saturday 7 June 2025\, Didier Convard and Denis Falque will talk about the behind-the-scenes of The Secret Triangle and The Epic of Freemasonry\, then François Morel will talk to us about humour with Les Colonnes sont muettes and Il en est de même à l’Orient.\nOn Saturday 27 September 2025\, Joël Gregogna will present his thoughts on two books Bande dessinée\, imaginaire et franc-maçonnerie and Corto l’initié.\nOn Saturday 21 March 2026\, collector Manuel Matthys will present Freemasonry in the comics of the Anglo-Saxon world.\nOn Saturday\, 25 April 2026\, Belgian publisher and writer Arnaud de la Croix will talk about Hergé and his keen interest in the occult and the connection to Freemasonry.
URL:https://freimaurermuseum.ch/en/on/comics-and-freemasonry/
LOCATION:Swiss Masonic Lounge\, Jupiterstrasse 40\, Bern\, 3015\, Schweiz
CATEGORIES:Special Exhibition
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