Éditions 2042

Éditions 2042 is a French independent publishing house specialising in bande dessinée (comic books) and illustrated books. It was founded in 2010 in Strasbourg by Olivier Bron and Simon Liberman, two graduates of the city's École des Arts décoratifs (now part of the HEAR). For its first fifteen years the company operated under the name Éditions 2024; on 1 January 2025 it announced that it was adopting the name Éditions 2042, a change presented on its website as a new banner and a promise of a future even brighter than the fourteen years already spent together. The founders' stated ambition was to build a coherent catalogue of illustrated books and comics, to accompany authors' long-term creative projects, and to pay close attention to the physical manufacture of the books, while maintaining a close relationship with their home city and with the booksellers who distribute their titles. The house initially published only three to four titles a year, and its output has remained deliberately small — the 2025 announcement refers to roughly twelve books a year, or about 216 titles over eighteen years. Éditions 2042 publishes both new work and reissues of older material, including nineteenth-century illustrated books by Gustave Doré such as Des-agréments d'un voyage d'agrément (1851) and L'Histoire de la Sainte Russie (1854), reissued in 2013 and 2014. Its authors include Matthias Picard, Simon Roussin, Léon Maret, Tom Gauld, Sophie Guerrive, Jérémie Moreau, Guillaume Chauchat, Bérengère Cournut, Donatien Mary, Léa Murawiec and others. The house also produces exhibitions derived from its books, shown at the Angoulême Festival, La Ferme du Buisson, the Colomiers comic festival and various médiathèques. Since 2021 it has partnered with the HEAR in Strasbourg to publish Éclat, an annual review created by students of the school's illustration workshop, and it runs a children's collection called « 4048 ». Its books have been repeatedly selected and awarded at the Angoulême International Comics Festival and at the Bologna Children's Book Fair, where it won the BolognaRagazzi Prize in the Comics – Young Adult category in 2021 for Le Discours de la Panthère by Jérémie Moreau. The company remains a small, privately held, independent French publisher based in Strasbourg.

Éditions 2042 was founded in 2010 in Strasbourg under the name Éditions 2024 by Olivier Bron and Simon Liberman, both former students of the École des Arts décoratifs de Strasbourg (later part of the Haute école des arts du Rhin, HEAR). The founders set out to « créer un catalogue de livres illustrés et de bandes-dessinées, accompagner des démarches d'auteurs cohérentes, et soigner la fabrication des livres » — to build a catalogue of illustrated books and comics, to support coherent authorial projects, and to take care over the making of the books — while cultivating a close link with their home city and with the booksellers who distributed their titles. In its early years the house published only three to four books a year. Among the authors it published were Matthias Picard, Simon Roussin, Léon Maret and Tom Gauld. Jim Curious by Matthias Picard, a silent relief comic published in 2012, was widely praised and was selected for the Pépites BD at Montreuil and for the youth selection of the 2013 Angoulême Festival. Alongside new work, the publisher reissued older illustrated books, including two by Gustave Doré — Des-agréments d'un voyage d'agrément (1851) and L'Histoire de la Sainte Russie (1854) — in 2013 and 2014 respectively. The house also produced exhibitions based on its books. Jim Curious was shown at the Angoulême Festival, at La Ferme du Buisson during the Festival Pulp, and in various médiathèques; Lignes by Guillaume Chauchat was mounted at the Angoulême Festival and at the Colomiers comic festival in November 2015. Other exhibitions included Les Derniers Dinosaures, 179X : Révolution !, La Chaîne du Livre selon 2024 and Exotiques. From 2020 the publisher's books began to be recognised at the Bologna Children's Book Fair, the international children's literature fair, through its BolognaRagazzi Prize: a Mention in the Fiction category in 2020, a Mention in the Première œuvre category in 2021, and in the same year the BolognaRagazzi Prize in the Comics – Young Adult category for Le Discours de la Panthère by Jérémie Moreau. Its titles have also been repeatedly selected and awarded at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, including the Prix du Patrimoine in 2019 for Gustave Doré's Les Travaux d'Hercule, the Prix Jeunesse 8-12 ans in 2021 for Le Club des Amis tome 1 by Sophie Guerrive, the Fauve du Public France Télévisions in 2022 for Le Grand Vide by Léa Murawiec, and the Prix Spécial du Jury in 2022 for Des vivants by Raphaël Meltz, Louise Moaty and Simon Roussin. In 2018 Crépuscule by Jérémy Perrodeau won the Prix du Jury PULP. Since 2021 the house has had a partnership with the HEAR in Strasbourg (the former École des Arts décoratifs) and publishes Éclat, an annual review created by students of the school's illustration workshop. It also offers children's books through the collection « 4048 ». In January 2025 the publisher, until then named Éditions 2024, announced that it was changing its name to Éditions 2042. The announcement on its website, dated 1 January 2025, described the decision with humour — Michel Drucker wishing viewers a happy new year, the world not having exploded — and presented the new name as « notre nouvel étendard », a new heading and guiding star. It looked back on eighteen springs, summers and Christmases, eighteen literary seasons and eighteen Angoulême controversies, and on roughly twelve books a year, amounting to about 216 books, all published under the sign of friendship with its authors and affection for its readers and its partners among representatives, booksellers, journalists, librarians and festivals.

• 2025

  On 1 January the publisher announces its renaming from Éditions 2024 to Éditions 2042.

• 2022

  Fauve du Public France Télévisions for Le Grand Vide by Léa Murawiec and Prix Spécial du Jury for Des vivants at the Angoulême Festival.

• 2021

  BolognaRagazzi Prize in the Comics – Young Adult category for Le Discours de la Panthère by Jérémie Moreau; partnership with the HEAR and launch of the annual review Éclat.

• 2020

  A Mention at the BolognaRagazzi Prize in the Fiction category.

• 2019

  Prix du Patrimoine at the Angoulême Festival for Gustave Doré's Les Travaux d'Hercule.

• 2018

  Crépuscule by Jérémy Perrodeau wins the Prix du Jury PULP 2018.

• 2014

  Reissue of Gustave Doré's L'Histoire de la Sainte Russie (1854).

• 2013

  Reissue of Gustave Doré's Des-agréments d'un voyage d'agrément (1851).

• 2012

  Publication of Jim Curious by Matthias Picard, a silent relief comic acclaimed by critics.

• 2010

  Éditions 2024 founded in Strasbourg by Olivier Bron and Simon Liberman.

Small, independent, author-centred French comics and illustrated-book publisher with a strong emphasis on bookmaking craft, close ties to Strasbourg and to booksellers, and a catalogue of roughly a dozen titles a year.

• 2012

  Jim Curious

• 2021

  Le Discours de la Panthère

• 2022

  Le Grand Vide

• 2022

  Des vivants

• 2021

  Le Club des Amis tome 1

• 2019

  Les Travaux d'Hercule

• 2018

  Crépuscule

• 2021

  Éclat (annual review)

• Collection « 4048 »

1. 1les éditions 2024 deviennent les éditions 2042editions2024.com
2. 2Wikidata Q16684369wikidata.org
3. 3Éditions 2042 — Wikipédiafr.wikipedia.org