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Jean-Marc Thévenet (born July 16th, 1955) is a French editor, writer of comics, television producer and curator.

He directed the Angoulême festival from 1998 to 2006. His album 'Le Chemin de l'Amérique', which he wrote for Baru, received the Alph-Art for the best French album at the Angoulême 1 festival in 1991.

Son of automotive journalist Jean-Paul Thévenet (director of L'Automobile magazine, pillar of the Dargaud press group), Jean-Marc Thévenet began as Guy Vidal's assistant to Pilote in 1981. At the time, Guy Vidal was still editor of the periodical. Following Dargaud's acquisition of Éditions du Square and the creation of new collections, Guy Vidal became a collection director and Jean-Marc Thévenet was appointed editor-in-chief of Pilote.

He later became director of the " X " collection, between 1984 and 1989, at the publisher Futuropolis. In an Italian style format, the X collection offers works by young authors. Some eighty titles will thus be published. This collection initiated by Étienne Robial publishes the first albums of authors like Pascal Rabaté, Jean-Christophe Chauzy, Stanislas, Miles Hyman, Jean-Christophe Menu, Jean-Claude Götting. At that time he wrote 'Comment faire de la bande dessinée sans passer pour un pied nickelé', illustrated by Florence Cestac. He is also the screenwriter of the 'Chemin de l'Amérique' de Baru, which received the prize for the best French album in Angoulême and other prizes in France in 1991.

Jean-Marc Thevenet became managing editor of the magazine Max from 1989 to 1993. He left to join Dominique Cantien on TF1 before producing on France 2.
Jean-Marc Thévenet was the director of the Angoulême International Comics Festival from May 1998 to February 2006. He initiates during his tenure an opening towards Asia with the invitation made to Korea in 2003 and opens the Festival to the independent labels with the exhibition Le Supermarché Ferraille (Éditions Requins Marteaux) also in 2003. He is taking the event outside the walls with, among others, an exhibition Blake and Mortimer in Paris (2003) and 'L'Automobile et la bande dessinée' during the Paris Motor Show ( 2004) and in partnership with the city of Nantes, 'Jules Verne, image d'un imaginaire' (2005).
After the 2006 festival, he was laid off, the president of the festival Dominique Bréchoteau reproaching him for having agreed to lead another artistic event, the Biennale of Contemporary Art of Le Havre.

He then became general director of the Biennale d'art contemporain du Havre. In 2010, he is the curator of the exhibition 'BD and architecture' which welcomes 150,000 visitors in six months for this exhibition bringing together more than 300 works and 150 authors.
The same year, with Linda Morren and Alain Berland, as part of the Biennale of Contemporary Art in Le Havre, he curates 'Une nouvelle scène de l'égalité ', a face-to-face encounter between comics and contemporary art.
In 2011, at the request of 'Cité Internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image d'Angoulême', he presents "Bande dessinée et peinture, une autre histoire l'œuvre peint" This exhibition features paintings by Hergé, Enki Bilal, Moebius, Mark Sleen, etc.

In July 2011, Jean-Marc Thévenet opens an art gallery that aims to present comic book authors working on other media than the traditional board. Works of Denis Sire, Jean-Marc Rochette, Olivia Clavel, Michaël Matthys, etc. are presented.
In 2012, he became a comic book consultant for the auction house Sotheby's and initiated the first sale on July 4th of the same year.
Meanwhile he publishes 'Mythologies des années Salut les copains ' (Édition du Layeur / Fondation Franck Ténot) and as part of the exhibition on comics and architecture, he publishes at Éditions Dupuis with Frédéric Rébéna and Rémy Baudouï 'Le Corbusier, architecte parmi les hommes'.
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on : 26/08/2019