Great article about Quebec comics at Angouleme and a good look at the festival in general. Lots of discussion about the current state of the festival and some of the internal divisions of the fest between the organizers and artists. There’s been some controversy regarding 9e, who organize the festival, and the creators that attend over the committee’s refocusing on a more commercial outlook for the event, and more disgusting developments such as the rape of Chloe, a former employee that had her employment terminated after the horrific incident. This has caused many publishers to create a counter event in protest, with some publishers looking to avoid the festival for the foreseeable future.
A very interesting and informative article. I’m still quite new to the BD scene, and had only hard about the festival in Angouleme vaguely, so it was an intriguing look into the preeminent BD comic festival. I also discovered some new publishers to check out such as Le Monte-en-l’air, La Pasteque and Les Requins Marteaux. There’s a lot of great pictures too peruse as well.
Feel free to name it if you can, as maybe they have an online presence I can stream. I’ve kind of run out of French music to listen to at the moment.
Aye, they’ve also helped me get more in to BD. Before I started seeing Euro titles come up through Fanta, I’d pretty much only read Tintin, Asterix and Lucky Luke. I guess that shift first happened ~17yrs ago, and at time all I was reading was indie/alt, like you I guess.
If it helps, I’ve done roundups of such news/review/discussion sites that can be found on the sidebar. They’re mostly in French (turn on translate), but Pipeline Comics happens to be an American who mainly covers Euro comics. Titus is real good, too!
At some point I should really try to make a master list of all the publishers I can. Unfortunately, apart from current events, I’m slowed way down by having CFS/ME, and on top of that I get pretty discouraged sometimes by the seemingly endless image-posting issues both here and at Imgur, which I try not to use, anymore.
Yep, I’m sure a few things I’ve read in the past through FB were Bande Dessinee before I was even aware of the designation. It wasn’t until the past two years that I started to pursue Euro stuff specifically.
Sweet! I’ll take a look at those sites. It’s been something I’ve been meaning to do, but up until now I’ve been mostly content with grabbing recommends from Reddit and TCJ.
Honestly, I feel that way about most things internet without having any kind of over-arching ailment (well, aside from Chronic Depression :/ ). The amount of stuff, and the depth of the rabbit holes, get too damn daunting to where I just throw up my hands most of the time.