L'Association is a French publishing house

Franco-Belgian publishing houses

Belgium and France have a long tradition in comics. They have a common history for comics and publishing houses....

 which publishes comic books. It was founded in May 1990 by Jean-Christophe Menu

Jean-Christophe Menu

Jean-Christophe Menu is a French underground cartoonist, graphic designer, writer and publisher best known for being one of the founders of L'Association, an influential comic book and art book publishing company from France often regarded as one of the key figures in the independent comic...

, Lewis Trondheim

Lewis Trondheim

Lewis Trondheim , born 11 December 1964, is an extremely prolific French cartoonist and one of the founders of the independent publisher L'Association. Both his silent comic La Mouche and Kaput and Zösky have been made into animated cartoons...

, David B., Mattt Konture

Mattt Konture

Mattt Konture is a French underground comics author and musician. He is one of the founders of the French publishing house L'Association and is a forerunner of the French autobiographical comics movement.- Biography :...

, Patrice Killoffer

Patrice Killoffer

Patrice Killoffer, better known simply as Killoffer, is an writer and artist of comics. He was co-founder of the independent comics publisher L'Association in 1990, and has been a part of Oubapo since its creation in 1992.-Career:Patrice Killoffer studied at the School for Applied Arts Duperré in...

, Stanislas, and Mokeït, who left soon thereafter. Currently, of the original founding members, only Menu and Konture continue to be affiliated with the company.

L'Association was one of the most important publishers to come out of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics

Franco-Belgian comics

Franco-Belgian comics are comics that are created in Belgium and France. These countries have a long tradition in comics and comic books, where they are known as BDs, an abbreviation of bande dessinée in French and stripverhalen in Dutch...

 in the 1990s, and remains highly regarded, being among the first to publish authors such as Joann Sfar

Joann Sfar

Joann Sfar is a French comics artist, comic book creator and film director.-Life and career:Sfar was born in Nice. He is considered one of the most important artists of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics. Many of his comics were published by L'Association which was founded in 1990 by...

 and Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novelist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author...

.

Lapin is the group's magazine, which showcases many talents from the European alternative scene.

One of L'Association's most distinctive works is the seminal black-and-white anthology Comix 2000

Comix 2000

Comix 2000 is an international one-shot independent comic book published by L'Association in November 1999 and distributed in the United States by Fantagraphics Books....

which features work from over 300 creators from 29 countries in one 2,000-page hardcover volume.

History

David B. left L'Association in the Spring of 2005; Lewis Trondheim left in the Autumn of 2006, followed shortly after by Stanislas and Killoffer. At that point, L'Association's "editorial board" was dissolved, since it was originally composed of the company's founders.

Titles

• Comix 2000
  Comix 2000
  Comix 2000 is an international one-shot independent comic book published by L'Association in November 1999 and distributed in the United States by Fantagraphics Books....
  
  
• L'ascension du haut mal
• Persepolis