January 21, 2016
A Pair Of Angouleme Grand Prix Notes

* Matt Madden, who's been following the story extremely closely,
has declared he won't vote for the grand prix. I think his reasons why will be reasons a lot of folks will consider before deciding their own course. One of the reasons the response from the Festival was so awful is that there needed to be a legitimacy to this year's voting spurred by a healthy vote no matter how it took place and the cynicism of that response has resulted in a lot of middle fingers aimed voting's way more than it has a rallying of the troops. Life will go on, and someone good will be honored, but there will be a felt, deeply unfortunate difference.
* a couple of
The Outhousers gang have
a fine write-up of the general situation, including a pulled discussion of its nuances and a supplied translation of nominee Claire Wendling asking people not to vote for her. To put how badly this is messed up in another way, this is an awards program that recently got the JD Salinger-like Bill Watterson to participate in an honorable fashion that two years later doesn't have a single nominee happy to win or that many fans standing by that will blame them for declining the honor. I know of at least two modern winners that burst into tears upon winning. That might happen this year for a different reason.
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