Go, Read: Mission In Angouleme Anticipating this year's Angouleme Festival, Paul Karasik marched his students to the city's Musee De Bandes Dessinee and had the curators there pull a bunch of art from great female cartoonists from around the world to test the idea that no women in comics history deserved consideration at the long-list stage of the grand prix award.
It's a cute article, full of students encountering great comics art. It also has a very good list of women cartoonists if you want to make such a list with the French-language tradition at its core:
I'm glad for any chance to make something good of this fiasco, and I think it's most likely to be a lot of small moments of learning, like with Karasik and his class.
