Tag Archive | "Angoulême"

Knitting Angou! Or Weekend of the Woolly Wildflowers

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

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Okay, we’ve had more than a few reports on here from the recent Angoulême comics festival in France (see here), but here’s a wonderfully unusual one to point you towards, a torrid tale of teased yarn, sneaky undercover knitting, street art and comics at Europe’s most important bande dessinee bash. Yes, it could only be Deadly [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Esprit BD

Friday, February 3, 2012

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One of the most rewarding experiences at the Angoulême Comics Festival has to be the Pavillon des Jeunes Talents, the tent that showcases the best entries to the yearly competition for young cartoonists.  Every year, hundreds of young artists from all around the world send in a sample of their work, typically a three-to-four page [...]

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Eddie at Angou

Friday, February 3, 2012

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I love Sean Azzopardi‘s sketch of the brilliant Eddie Campbell at Angoulême at the weekend:

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Angouleme – Sean’s French Diary

Thursday, February 2, 2012

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Continiung our reports from this year’s Angoulême comics festival  which Wim kicked off live from the event on Friday, today we have a special treat as the excellent Sean Azzopardi, now a confirmed veteran of the BD festival, kindly agreed to give us his take on Angoulême from the point of view of an independent [...]

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Images of Angouleme

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

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Good chum of the blog Sean Azzopardi was again at the Angoulême comics festival in France and he’s posted up a whole bunch of photographs so those of us who couldn’t go can at least have a glimpse of some of what it looked like:

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From our Continenal Correspondent: Angouleme – the best of the rest

Monday, January 30, 2012

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I didn’t go to any of the talks or interviews at Angoulême this year, partly because I didn’t feel like standing in line for hours, and partly because this year’s menu was plentiful enough. Just attending the many exhibitions took most of my time here. There was a very good show in the Comics Museum, [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Spiegelman conquers Angouleme

Friday, January 27, 2012

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I attended the comics festival of Angoulême a couple of times in the past, and even though the event generally has a fairly international feel to it, it’s always been a predominantly French affair, albeit with a good contingent of guests from other lands. With the presidency of Art Spiegelman however, it would seem that [...]

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24 hour comics in Angoulême

Friday, January 27, 2012

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Dan Berry has been over in Angoulême for several days before the start of the main part of Europe’s most important comics festival and regularly tweeting and posting online about his experiences, including this year’s 24 hour comics – or we should say 24 heures de la bande dessinee, which he notes had an incredibly [...]

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Counting down to Angouleme – the exhibitions

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

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One of the main reasons for going to the bande dessinee festival in Angoulême, next to bumping into some of your heroes in the street and ending up having coffee with them, are the exhibitions.  It seems the organisers are trying to crank it up a notch with every edition. Last year Art Spiegelman won [...]

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Dan Berry’s off to Angoulême… and we can follow his progress

Sunday, January 22, 2012

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Yep, Dan Berry, of the recently enjoyed After We Shot The Grizzly, is taking himself off to the Angoulême Comics Festival this week, to soak in the atmosphere and enjoy the build up to next week’s festival. Lucky so and so. Angoulême is of course, the biggest and most important of the European Comics Festivals, [...]

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Counting down to Angouleme – the selection

Thursday, January 19, 2012

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With lodgings, accreditation and train all dealt with, it’s time to start really preparing for the Smorgasbord of comics that is the Angoulême Festival.  In this post I’ll be highlighting some of the more surprising or noteworthy titles on the several short lists, honour lists or other sélections that the Festival has. On the Sélection [...]

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Counting down to Angouleme : Spiegelman speaks

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

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The tradition dictates that whoever wins the Grand Prix at the Angoulème Comics Festival, is invited to curate the next edition of the Festival.  This means that he or she will probably get a major retrospective exhibition (which are always a treat in their own right), but also that the festival will focus on particular [...]

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Tom Spurgeon talks to Art Spiegelman

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

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The excellent Tom Spurgeon talks to iconic, Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman. Being Tom, of course, the talk, while discussing the new and completely fascinating MetaMaus book (much recommended, by the way), takes in much more than his Maus related work, starting off with chatting to Art about his upcoming stint at what for many of [...]

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Comic Cons – in pictures!

Thursday, June 2, 2011

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Comics creator, snapper, gentleman and all round good chap Sean Azzopardi has taken a lot of photos at the many comics conventions and festivals he’s been to, from Bristol, Brimingham and Caption and Comica to Angouleme, Stripdagen, Malta and TCAF. Now he’s brought all his photo sets from the various conventions, covering several years and [...]

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The Brits in Europe: Dan Berry on Angoulême and Helsinki

Friday, May 6, 2011

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Comics creator Dan Berry posts the first part of a very interesting article on the British comics in Europe, starting with his week at Angoulême, where he was involved in teaching and working with the maison des auteurs among other things. It makes very interesting reading contrasting the UK comics publishing scene with our very [...]

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