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January 25, 2008


Angouleme Moves Into Its Second Day

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As with many American conventions, there's a bit of a news lull about 24 hours into the Festival International de la BD Angouleme as several folks are still settling in for a big weekend, the prizes and the like have yet to gear up, and non-traditional reporting has to wait for most of its agents to return home. There's still some interesting stuff out there.

* co-founder Francis Groux received the commandeur des Arts et des Lettres honor yesterday from the French ministry of culture. I'm probably not phrasing that correctly.

* This video shows a lot of the buildings, some of the set up, and a lot of generally attractive French comics and festival folks. Plus, great artists drawing.

* finally, it looks like the Festival itself has quite the classy, first-day video report up, or at least there's one up it seems like they're endorsing. It looks like those will be assembled here. I enjoyed watching it.


 
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