Festivals Extra: ActuaBD.com Surveys Angouleme Exhibitions

I thought this article at the French-language clearing house for news ActuaBD.com most effective as a list of exhibitions: there will be a Jack Kirby show, a spotlight on Jiro Taniguchi and an exhibition featuring the work of Tove Jansson. There will also be a bunch of more modern shows on display, like one featuring Anouk Ricard. In a year I bet a significant number of people are considering a last minute push to go, just knowing what you're getting into might be useful.

The rest of it, it's harder for me to say. That doesn't sound like any more of a nostalgia-driven show than some of my memories of shows from years past, even though it's certainly true that the show has been pushing for a bigger, more crowd-pleasing relevancy the last few years. What seems like criticism that the Watterson poster didn't include Calvin and Hobbes despite those characters being the stars of the work for which Watterson was elected sounds silly to me considering the cartoonist's longtime stand against the use of those characters in advertising. Then again, it's hard for us to imagine choices like that involving a North American show poster having ramifications of any kind to the point they would be reported.

The last part of the article goes over a conflict between the Festival owners and the organizers hired to run the show through 2017, and other than noting that such a conflict may exist seems difficult to figure out absent being immersed in the players involved.
 
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