Tag: angoulême

It's official, Rumiko Takahashi, one of the all time great manga-ka, has won the Grand Prix at FIBD Angoulême. She beat out the other two finalists, Chris Ware and Emmanuel Gilbert. The honor, considered one...

Takahashi would be only the second woman to win.

This afternoon, the Official Selections for the big prize at the 2019 FIBD in Angoulême were announced, along with prize nominees. The prizes - known as the Fauves - are one of the most...

FIBD #45 is just a memory now but it seems to be a pleasant one for most people who attended. The hanging out and eating wonderful three hour dinners was just fine, as usual,...

  Bonjour from Angoulême. A few naps and some bad wifi since last we spoke but things are humming here. As at most cons, Saturday is the "big day" and most people are escaping huge...

We continue our week of European comic goodness with more from Statix Press: Titan Comic's new imprint that's working to translate the best strips from across the pond to make them available to the...

Today we shine our Statix spotlight on Alisik: a ghostly series about life after death.

The Fauves, the official awards of the Angoulême Comics Festival were handed out over the weekend and there was no mockery or satire, only awards for comics. Thanksthe lord for small favors. The complete...

The annual Angouleme comics festival is taking place RIGHT NOW, and sadly for comics news website traffic, unlike last year's disaster, things are progressing in an orderly and well-mannered fashion. And we have a new...

Halfway into a pleasant Oakland morning I met up up with Jason Shiga in his family home. At a nearby cafe, we talked about his recently completed comic Demon, his approaching yearlong residency in Angoulême,...

§ Nice art: Mary Blair  -- I was looking up something for an email question and found this scan of Mary Blair's Cinderella picture book.  Blair, a scene painter, ride designer, illustrator, is perhaps the ultimate...

Whooooo-ah! This whole Angoulême-gate thing got out of hand FAST. In just 24 hours it went from an angry petition to the world's best cartoonists rejecting their nominations to front page news to the festival sulkily added Marjane Satrapi and Posy Simmonds to their list, even though no one would vote for them, and a whirlwind of hot takes.