A Few Extra Angouleme Notes

While Bart Beaty's flying back to Canada, a few links to coverage outside of Bart's write-ups:

* there's some excellent first-person writing about the festival in Matthias Wivel's posts to the Metabunker, including photos like the one at right, which shows that if nothing else, Angouleme has San Diego beat for comfortable seating during panels.

Wivel's post about Jose Munoz winning the grand prize reminds me of something I'd heard through various e-mails last year when Lewis Trondheim won: that some people were a bit upset because Munoz had been supported for the award for so long and is the kind of distinguished great that usually receives the honor, while others were more specifically concerned that every year Munoz wasn't named meant an increased chance that he might not be named at all, as a manga creator would slip into this historical moment's rare non-French language cartoonist slot.

Again, that's just talk, and year old talk at that, but I always find it fun to mull over the various thoughts expressed after the decision for each festival president is announced.

* Alison Bechdel was blogging the festival.

* Brigid Alverson has a nice post up about the news that most people will take away from the show, that the Best Album prize went for the first time to manga, and where to find out more on author Shigeru Mizuki.

* ActuaBD.com has an article up on the festival's prize winners, including some killer photos. This is where my ignorance of French gets me in trouble, but it seems odd to me that they'd come right out and say in the first graph that basically this is what you'd expect of a festival where the president is Lewis Trondheim. I'm guessing that probably doesn't get said/implied in other years. On the other hand, the article seems pretty positive throughout, and I'm sure that Trondheim's presidency and the awards results could be a potentially compelling issue to some people.

* Edd Vick writes about the 1992 Festival, which may give you an idea how much things have changed for the North American presence at the show.
 
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