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January 23, 2016


Go, Read: How Important Is Angouleme?

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Bart Beaty ponders the importance of the Angouleme Festival's awards programs in terms of how they've had an impact on the authors and their works keeping in print and finding a way into international markets and the like.

Bart's is a way of defining importance that ties directly into his next book, but it's a question worth asking both of this show and all the others. Why do we assign significance to certain institutions in comics and not to others? What happens when we don't feel they're significant any longer? I think there may be some harsh judgments on their way.
 
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