Tag Archive | "festival"

From our continental correspondent – festival update for March !

Thursday, March 3, 2011

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So, everybody’s recovered from last month’s Angoulême extravaganza ?  Then it’s time to get back in gear and get ready for some more conventionalising and festivalisation !  To wit : This week, from the 2nd until the 6th of March, the Italian city of Bologna is all abuzz with the new edition of the Bilbolbul [...]

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Angoulême in video

Monday, February 14, 2011

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Media Comics give us a short video taster of some of the comics creators who were at the recent Angoulême BD festival in France: Un aperçu du FIBD d’Angoulême 2011 from Media Comics on Vimeo.

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From our continental correspondent: Angoulême – the future of BD in the US

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

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English-speaking public with very particular ideas about what comics should be. Or the Anglophone publishers in Angoulême. Alex Bowler from Random House had come to Angoulême looking for direct contacts.  As a British publisher, he faces great competition from US firms, who often buy the rights to a book for the whole world and not [...]

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BilBOlBul international comics festival site up

Thursday, January 20, 2011

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The website (including an English language version) for this year’s edition of the  BilBOlBul international comics festival in Bolgona, Italy, is now up. The festival boasts a plethora of exhibitions – including art from Tove Jannson, Emile Bravo and Brecht Evens – panels, workshops, multi media events and much more.

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Festivals in January? There can be only one

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

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Our monthly overview of comics festivals in Europe is a bit shorter than we would like it to be this time.  However, it’s quite understandable – after all, who in his right mind is going to put up another festival in the same month as that behemoth of comics fests: the annual Festival de la [...]

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Festivals for the festive season

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

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Even though we’re probably all head over heels involved in that yearly madness that is the Festive Season, some brave souls are putting up comics festivals and events all over Europe.  Albeit a very little group of brave souls – there’s just been one major event and another follows hard on its heels : The [...]

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Some thoughts on the Angoulême shortlist

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

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Last week the Grand Wizards that rule the World of Angoulême decreed their traditional longlists of the best comics of 2010, the best comics for young readers, and the Sélection patrimoine, which roughly translates as books that should not be forgotten.  These lists are easily the most important in the Francophone comics world, and even [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Festival update: November

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

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We are a tad late with our monthly update on comics festivals on the continent, but then, you probably were all to busy with Comica this weekend, so it’s probably not too bad.  And so : In the weekend of the 13th and 14th November, Bulles en Seine throws its annual Comics and Children’s Books [...]

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From our continental correspondent – October on the road in Europe

Friday, October 1, 2010

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Another month, and another slew of comics festivals across Europe (or mostly France, as luck will have it). The Polish city of Lodz kicks off the month with the 21st edition of its International Comics and Game Festival (October 1-3).  Central event in this festival is an exhibition ‘Masters of Polish comic art’ which features [...]

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OuBaPo is alive !

Monday, September 13, 2010

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OuBaPo, the Workshop for Potential Comics, is alive and kicking !  This philosophy or even aesthetic concept of comics as a result of games and constraints, originated in 1992 within the group of authors around the French publishing house, L’Association (with people like Gilles Ciment or Etienne Lécroart). It quickly found international following, more particularly [...]

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If you don’t know where to go…

Friday, September 10, 2010

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After the summer holidays, it would seem that a new comics festival season is in full effect all over Europe.  Here is a selection of some of the comics/bande dessinee fairs and festivals that will vie for your attention over the next few weeks in Europe: Brussels celebrates its ninth Comics Festival on the weekend [...]

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Arts : Le Havre

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

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During the month of October, right from the 1st through to the 31st to be precise, the third edition of the Bi-annual Festival of Contemporary Art will take place in the French city of Le Havre. This edition will focus on the relationships between comics and contemporary art as they currently exist. The Festival acknowledges [...]

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Dave McKean at Offset

Monday, August 16, 2010

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The Offset folks have uploaded a good, long video of Dave McKean’s appearance at the 2009 festival: Dave McKean – OFFSET 2009 from OFFSET on Vimeo.

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Talking comics at the Electric Picnic

Friday, August 6, 2010

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John Byrne (not the X-Men John Byrne!) kindly updates us on the upcoming Electric Picnic festival which takes place in Stradbally, Co. Laois, Ireland from the 3rd to the 5th of September. As with many festivals it’s no longer just about the music though, with plenty of other activities and events taking place during the [...]

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Latitude

Friday, July 23, 2010

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The We Are Words and Pictures posse descended on the Latitude music festival recently, a fest known for not just the live music but incorporating all sorts of other artistic activities into the proceedings, like poetry, theatre and, as the guys showed, comics. A certain Mr Sheret, a well known itinerant doodler, has written up [...]

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