Tag: angoulême

It seems that the Festival of Comics of Angoulême is grudgingly going to add more names to it's Grand Prix list after a growing number of cartoonists have withdrawn in protest over the lack...

An interview with the winners of this year's Prix de la Serie at Angoulême

§ Norm Breyfogle suffered a stroke on December 17th, but he's making great progress, as shown in this video; his fundraiser to help with his rehab is still underway and NOW he's the poster...

It will be a very difficult Angouleme comics festival they year, as the French comics world—and the entire world—deals with the senseless death of five cartoonists. I'm told the festival is planning a memorial and...

Hey! How about that? A bit of French to start things off, how fancy and educational we're all being this morning. Heidi's swanned off to France to drink Cognac and Coffee for a few days,...

by Abby Denson, with Jessica Abel and Xavier Lancel So you're going to Angoulême? Lucky you! I’ve exhibited with Xavier Lancel for the past several years and thought I’d share some of my favorite places...

At long last, I'm going to the Angoulême Comics Festival! Or to give it its proper name, the FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LA BANDE DESSINÉE. The Angoulême Festival is the largest non-manga comics gathering in...

Despite an attempt to liven things up with a more actually influential cartoonist winning the Grand Prix at Angoulême, 72 year old Dutch cartoonist Willem has won. Lambiek tells us of him Born and bred...

The biggest comics-focused event in the world is underway drawing hundreds of thousands of people to look at comics and cartoonists with no movie stars to distract them, Despite this, only one English language reporter seems to be filing from the show, Comics Reporter's Bart Beatty who has his first two reports here and here.