“Angoulême: Love It or Shove It” An open letter by Lewis Trondheim
I have very little skin in the game when it comes to the politics and proceedings surrounding the Angoulême Festival. I’ve been only once (and I thoroughly enjoyed myself) and I’m not French, so I don’t really have an opinion on the matter, nor do I have any deep understanding of the festival’s history or inner workings....
The festival that was: Angoulême 2012
Well, THAT was something. Bear with me; I’ve never done a “con report” or a “festival recap” before. I think they often involve the blogger talking about the convention day by day, being very thorough about covering everything important that happened, the most buzzed about books and news and who’s...
24 h BD
3:32 pm Well, its over! And I finished 19 pages so far, which you can see here: http://www.24hdelabandedessinee.com/public/auteurs2012.php?id=11048 It may not be 24 pages but it doesnt feel like a failure. I have to admit that I didn’t really WANT to participate in 24 hour comics day. I thought “that’s not how I work and...
A Walk Around Angoulême
In the year leading up to coming here, I would tell people that I was moving to Angoulême for 7 months and would get different reactions depending on where the person I was talking to was from. If they were American, they would usually sigh and say “oh how wonderful to live in France for...
