ActuaBD.com: Report From Frankfurt

French comics news site ActuaBD.com has a breezy report up from last week's Frankfurter Buchmasse, one of the worldwide publishing industry's key events and an increasing place of interest for comics publishers. His observations as to the state of the comics market seem to be basically 1) the continuing international appeal of manga, 2) the growing attractiveness of select independent works like Persepolis and 3) an uneven market for traditional French comics albums with the positives coming from those that are supported by film and television. There also a bit to chew on in some of the more throwaway lines, like the notion that French series have switched from larger to smaller publishers in Germany or the perfectly sensible notion (only I hadn't thought of it before) that shows like this are less important to publishers that are locked into longer-running series as their main bread and butter. Lots of photos, too, including Jeff Smith and Chuck Rozanski.

Speaking of Smith, he blogged about the show and continues to blog about his signing tour in Europe, including occasional photos of his food. Link through the picture, which I think is from a comics shop in Bonn as opposed to the bookfair.
 
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