French Convention Hangovers More Charming Than U.S. Ones

* CR will start a collective memory tomorrow on this year's just-concluded Angouleme, but today we'll go with a few quick notes.

* if you're not following these, you should be: Tom Devlin and Peggy Burns from Drawn And Quarterly extend their photo essay into a second day. People always point out how Angouleme has a definite mainstream component, but it's hard to take San Diego comparisons seriously when you see so many people dressed this casually and well that it doesn't even merit mention. Anyway, I enjoy these photos and their accompanying commentary a lot.

* this is the only article I've seen with Art Spiegelman's reaction to be named the Grand Prix winner. As most CR readers probably already know, this gets Spiegelman directly involved with the 2012 show. Spiegelman has a very idiosyncratic sense of what's important in comics history, and is a charismatic personality generally, so his participation could be a lot of fun.

* one of the fun things about Angouleme weekend is that it always generates a couple of odd profiles based on something at the show catching some feature writer's attention. This year I read two: a Guardian piece on Quai D'Orsay that compares it to the British TV show The Thick Of It, and a well-traveled international wire piece on the "female manga underground."

* finally, if you haven't scrolled down the page or if you sometimes stop at the Quick Hits, I'll hope you'll take the time to read Bart Beaty's snappy report for CR sent from the show at its conclusion yesterday. This includes his thoughts on Spiegelman's win, the other prize winners, and what festival shows were worth attending. I'm worried that Bart might be penalized in terms of eyeballs for filing at the moment of the festival's conclusion rather than waiting until this morning.
 
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