Go, Read: Summer Symposium At Angouleme Focuses On… Transmedia?

This two-part report from the French-language comics news clearinghouse ActuaBD.com covers the Universite d'ete de la BD that took place in Angouleme in early July. What may be surprising to many casual French comics enthusiasts is that the topic was the very business-friendly notion of transmedia, or the making of business across media, and its impact on comics. Basically, it's the kind of thing you find in room 57d of Comic-Con given the full symposium treatment. I don't know if it's the article or if it was the sum total of the presentations that caused it, but I didn't see much in there that didn't sound pretty banal. The notion that because video games are so popular that there's some sort of danger that the video game become the central expression of a multiple-platform property has to be right up there with pre-season football in terms of things I don't care about, but I admit it's sort of intriguing to learn that people all over the world are noodling over such loosely-defined subject matter. I don't know, I look at how many media in which Gasoline Alley stuff appeared and I have to wonder if these ideas are as new as these speaker like to claim they are.
 
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