Tag Archive | "festival"

From our continental correspondent – summer’s coming, time for some festivals!

Thursday, May 24, 2012

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It has been a while coming, but with summer finally arriving here are a few pointers for upcoming comics festivals on the Continent for the coming month or so. We’ve just had the 31st edition of the Arctic Comics Festival in Kemi, Finland, where Christophe Blain was the guest of honour. Also present were tintinologist [...]

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2D is coming!

Thursday, May 10, 2012

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Irish peeps, prepare yourselves and mark your diaries, because the annual 2D Northern Ireland Comics Festival returns to Derry at the end of this month. It’s been a well-regarded comics bash right since it started and this year again looks to offer four colour fun to the readers of Northern Ireland (and I’m sure cross-border [...]

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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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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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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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Thought Bubble – James’ take

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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It’s a misty chilly morning in Leeds, but Scarlet Witch strikes quite an image as she walks towards Tesco’s, neon yellow and bright green, vividly startling at half past nine on this achingly early Saturday morning of Thought Bubble. She is flanked by three other costumed, crusading comic fans and so my pilgrimage north to [...]

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Le voyageur Debout – photocomics at the Edinburgh Fringe

Thursday, August 11, 2011

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French theatre company Le Voyageur Debout are here in Edinburgh as part of the world’s biggest arts festival (seriously, folks, if you have never been in Edinburgh during August you have no idea just how incredibly busy and buzzing it all is). As part of their show Martin Porter tells me that every day they [...]

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BD and Comics Passion festival in London this autumn

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

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This autumn London comics lover can enjoy their very first Bande Dessinee and Comics Passion festival from the Institut Français from the 7th to the 9th of October, with a great mix of British and French writers and artists taking part. From the description: “The graphic novel medium has grown over the years to become [...]

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SciFi and Horror at the Edinburgh Film Fest

Friday, July 22, 2011

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Just over a couple of weeks ago I was enjoying my annual week off at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, taking in all sorts of cinema, from hard-hitting documentaries from modern combat reporters to stylish French crime thrillers. And of course I took in several science fiction and horror themed flicks along the way, so [...]

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Brit Indy comics folks at MoCCA this weekend!

Friday, April 8, 2011

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New York City is host to MoCCA over the 9th and 10th of April, boasting some fabulous guests such as Peter Bagge, Nick Bertozzi, Jules Feiffer, Pascal Girard, Dean Haspiel, Ben Katchor, Chip Kidd, Michael Kupperman, Gahan Wilson, Adrian Tomine, Bill Plympton, Jessica Abel, Kate Beaton and many more, alongside some our favourite publishers like [...]

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