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Jose Villarrubia, SCARCE At Angoulême

Published Sun, 23 Jan 2011 08:00:25 -0600

Bonjour à tous!

Angoulême is the largest comic book convention in the world, held in France. SCARCE is a French magazine, running quarterly since 1983 focusing on American comics, available through subcriptions (7€ per issue, 25€ for 4 issues, shipped worldwide).

Xavier Lancel is the current editor-in-chief and he will be providing Bleeding Cool with a look at the 38th festival and running commentary from the SCARCE crew at the show.

The magazine likes to invite prominent American comic creators to the show (and the occasional Brit too) and has conducted a series of profile questionnaires with their guests before the festival begins

Who are you?

Jose Villarrubia: Colorist fot Marvel, DC, Vertigo, Dark Horse and Disney. Illustrator of The Mirror of Love, Voice of the Fire and Promethea by Alan Moore.

Is it your first trip to France, to the Angouleme Festival?

No, I have come many times to Angouleme and I lived in Paris for a year/

What do you expect from it?

To see all my international comics friends, meet now ones and see what's happening in world comics.

Are you ready? Any specific fear about it?

I am ready. No fears but I do not like traveling.

Do you speak french?

Un peu… Je me peux communiquer… et je comprends assez bien… Je commets beaucoup d'erreurs, mais il ne m'importe pas trop… he, he… Je crois que je parle mieux que j'écris…