The ADAGP Académie de France in Rome – Villa Médicis and the Maison des auteurs de la Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l’image in Angoulême offer a creative residency to an experienced author to design an innovative comic book project. The winner spends 2 months in Rome and 2 months in Angoulême in residency and receives a €2,000 monthly residency grant.
Cost of transportation between place of residency and the winner’s domicile is fully covered.
About the Académie de France in Rome - Villa Medici
Founded in 1666 by Louis XIV, the Académie de France à Rome - Villa Médicis is a French institution that has been housed since 1803 at the Villa Médicis, a 16th century villa surrounded by a seven-hectare park and located on Mount Pincio in the heart of Rome.
A national public institution under the authority of the Ministry of Culture, the Académie de France in Rome - Villa Medici today fulfils three complementary missions: to welcome high-level artists, creators and art historians in residence for long stays of one year or shorter; to set up a cultural and artistic programme that integrates all the fields of the arts and creation and that is aimed at a wide audience; to conserve, restore, study and make known to the public its built and landscape heritage as well as its collections.
The Académie de France in Rome - Villa Medici is directed by Sam Stourdzé.
About the Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image
The Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image is a public establishment for cultural cooperation created by the Charente department, the French Ministry of Culture, the city of Angoulême and the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, dedicated to comics and images. It brings together a comic strip museum, exhibition galleries, a heritage library, a specialised public library, a documentation centre, an international authors' residence (La Maison des auteurs), a reference bookshop and an art-house cinema. The Cité holds the first heritage collection of comics in Europe and actively supports young artists by hosting more than 50 authors in residence, more than 60% of whom are foreign. Each year, the institution welcomes more than 200,000 visitors and deploys a major programme of socio-educational activities to share the wealth of the 9th art with as many people as possible.
Recent Winners
For details of calls for applications in progress
These direct grants – ranging from €5,000 to €30,000 – were launched several years
ago under ADAGP’s cultural action program to allow artists to pursue and develop their work.
[Appel à candidature] Révélation Bande dessinée 2026
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[Appel à candidature] Révélation Livre d'artiste 2026
En partenariat avec (Made Anywhere), l'ADAGP, société des auteurs dans les arts visuels, lance la onzième édition de la Révélation Livre d'artiste destinée à soutenir et à promouvoir la création actuelle dans cette discipline artistique. Date limite de candidature : mercredi 13 mai 2026 à 14h
[Appel à candidature] Révélation Livre jeunesse 2026
L’ADAGP valorise le travail des créateurs émergents et auteurs de la scène française. Elle lance, en partenariat avec la Charte des auteurs et illustrateurs jeunesse, la 9 e édition de la Révélation Livre jeunesse. Date limite de candidature : mardi 12 mai 2026 à 14h
Portraits of the winners of the residency
