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From our continental correspondent – White Cube made my festival

Friday, March 8, 2013

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It’s been a month now since we all got back from what was generally a quite bland and disappointing Angoulême Festival. When I think back of this year’s edition (and I leave out the rowdy evenings with comics folks of all ilk) all that pops up are rows and rows of yellowing pages of black [...]

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Comics: a wee look around Angouleme

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

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Jake Whitehouse has uploaded a short nine-minute video from the recent Angoulême comics festival in France – as you might expect it’s in French, but even if you don’t speak any French at all you can still enjoy a good look around the major bande dessinee festival, including even a wee setting up before the [...]

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Comics: Sean’s take on Angoulême

Friday, February 15, 2013

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That wandering comics creator Sean Azzopardi‘s well-travelled feet took him to the fabled Angoulême comics festival in France at the end of January, and Sean has been kind enough to pen us a comic creator’s point of view of his and some of the other Brit comics pack’s Angoulême experience: This year I travelled to [...]

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News, Views and Oddities #12

Thursday, February 7, 2013

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News, Views and Oddities, where we link to various bits and bobs which have grabbed our attention, encompassing comics, books, illustration, design and film. Clicking fingers at the ready. Starting with something I loved this week: Kyle Platt’s illustrated biography of Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama. You can view the whole thing here, and while you’re [...]

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Comics: Angouleme winners 2013

Monday, February 4, 2013

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The major European comics art festival, Angoulême, took place over the weekend, pretty much the festival for those with a deep love for the medium. The hugely prestigious awards were announced and I am absolutely delighted to see that not one but two UK creators, published by some of the Indy Brit comics publishers we have [...]

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From our Continental Correspondent: Angou a la tele

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

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It’s less than a fortnight until everyone’s who’s anyone in European comics gathers in the town of Angoulême in the South-west of France to ponder their favourite artform / medium / industry (take your pick), this year for the fortieth time, no less. Correspondents and journalists are bombarded with press releases and invitations to interviews, [...]

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Angouleme 2013 – the shortlist

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

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You know that the countdown for Angoulême has begun when the Festival publishes its shortlist – the books that have been nominated in the four categories of its awards. When the jury does its job well, the selection is a good reflection of the state comics in France; but if the jury is recalcitrant, its [...]

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Comics: Angoulême 2013

Thursday, November 15, 2012

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Now this poster image for the 2013 Angoulême comics festival in France, one of the major highlights of the comics festivals anywhere, is just lovely (via Editions Dargaud’s Thomas Ragon):

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From our continental correspondent – Angouleme 40: The schedule’s here

Friday, September 28, 2012

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From January 31st until February 3rd, 2013, the fortieth edition of the FIBD (the International Comics Festival) will be held in the city of Angoulême, France. And judging from the Avant-Programme, which was released last week, it promises to be a bumper edition. The main exhibition of the festival, will, of course, be dedicated to [...]

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From our continental correspondent – une autre histoire now online

Monday, July 23, 2012

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This year’s Angoulême festival featured, amongst others, the exhibition, Une Autre Histoire (A Different History), which traced the quite fascinating but at times also very problematic relationship between comics and the fine art throughout the 20th (and 21st century). The exhibition opened with paintings (or attempts at) by famous eurocomics legends like Joseph “Jijé” Gillain (which [...]

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