The Forbidden Planet International Blog

The Angoulême Festival is a smorgasbord of francophone comics (well, it is in France, so what do you expect ?).  Still, there’s a sizeable British contingent around, from publishers to independent creators and (of course) fans, if you know where to look.  We tracked a few of them down to the far corners of the festival (click the pics to see them on Flickr).

Here’s cartoonist Sean Azzopardi, Dan Lester, Francesca Cassavetti, Oliver Lambden and Sally-Anne Hickman having a very short break between fending off the many prospective buyers for their books, in their very own booth in the Nouveau Monde tent (which is where all the cool people are!)

London purveyor of beautiful books Nobrow somehow got a booth in the ParaBD tent, in between the original art dealers, the figurine collectors and the antique book stalls.  Still, there was a lot of interest in their books and posters, and they were selling like cupcakes !

Doug Wallace of fine Brit indy publisher SelfMadeHero (already an established fave around here for some of their books) had already started packing up at his booth in the Foreign Rights Market when we stopped by on Saturday.  He had had a very good festival, with a lot of good initial contacts and even a contract or two in the pocket.  It’s all still very hush-hush, but as soon as the legalese has been confirmed, he promised us we’d be the first to know.

And amongst all the busy Festival chaos, here’s Ellen Lindner in a fetching chapeau, hard at work flogging the Comics Reader on the cold streets of Angoulême.  That is commitment !