Angouleme Attendance Figure: 220,000

I'm not exactly sure where he got it, but Gianfranco Goria at the indispensable afNews site has a figure up for attendance at last weekend's Festival International de la BD Angouleme: 220,000. My understanding going in is that recent attendance had been around the 200,000 mark, so that would be a significant improvement.

News about the show is definitely in the wind-down, summary phase, but ActuaBD.com has a brief interview up with Grand Prix co-winner Philippe Dupuy that talks a lot about his current projects, both with and without longtime creative partner Charles Berberian. Dupuy says that the duo will continue their Monsieur Jean books through the milestone of the character's 50th birthday. The bit that popped for me is that Dupuy also has a book out with Loo Hui Phang at Futuropolis in May called Une Election americaine, which unless I'm completely whiffing the French seems to be about drag queens in Arizona. Matthias Wivel appraises the Grand Prix selection. This interview with the French minister of culture Christine Albanel done on site is fun if you want to read a high government official rattle off her comics reading past like your typical Comics Journal interview subject. It also suggests that French cartoonists may not enjoy the same status tax-wise as creators in other art forms, which surprises me.

Update: I'm told that Une Election americaine has been out since May 2006! I have no idea why they were talking about it. Mon francais est tres mal, although I should have enough on the ball to read a date on French Amazon.com. Sheesh.
 
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