Go, Read: Short Interview With Franck Bondoux

There are a couple of things worth noting in this Franck Bondoux interview in terms of how the voting for the grand prix winner will be done at the forthcoming Angouleme Festival. One is that he's characterizing this as the permanent solution -- an acceleration of a process they started in 2013 to change way voting is done to its final state, and not just a reaction to the criticism. The criticism moved it along, but they've been heading here all along. Another is that he foresees a two-tier process. The open vote that leads to three candidates; the final vote -- also, I think from the attending creators, unless my French is wrong which is tres possible -- will come from that three-candidate list.

There are some hints and flourishes there which made me roll my eyes. It looks like the festival really is going to stick by this "history of comics" canard as a real arguing point even as they withdraw from the controversy. Here's Laurenn McCubbin on that issue.
 
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