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Angoulême Archives
Posy Simmonds, comic creator and graphic novelist, has been awarded the Grand Prix at the International Comics festival in Angoulême.
Earlier this year, French comic book artist Bastien Vivès was to receive a retrospective exhibition at next month's Angoulême comic book festival. This
Bastien Vivès is a French comic book artist who first achieved fame under the pseudonym Chanmax with the character Poungi la Racaille, before Casterman
This year's President of Angoulême International Comics Festival and last year's winner Chris Ware has awarded Julie Doucet with the Angoulême Grand
The Angoulême Grand Prix is a lifetime achievement award established in 1974 given annually during the Angoulême International Comics Festival to a comics
The Angouleme Official Selection and Grand Prix are the most prestigious awards for comic books in the world, awarded to published comic books from the
The Angouleme Official Selection and Grand Prix are the most prestigious awards for comic books in the world, awarded to published comic books from the
The Angouleme Festival for 2020 has announced their Official Selection of comic books published in the French language over the last year. These will be
After a number of embarrassing events in recent weeks, a conglomerate of large and small publishers have called for the Angoulême festival to undergo a
The prestigious Angoulême Awards for 2016, the ost prestigious awards in the comic industry and awarded each year at the Angoulême Comic Art Festival in
In 1982 the creator of Astro Boy, Osamu Tezuka went to the ninth Angoulême comic book festival. Sponsored by the Japanese government and accompanied by
Recently, we reported that none of the three nominees were likely to accept this year's Grand Prix from the Angoulême festival, after considerable
The controversy over the Angoulême Grand Prix is far from over. After the controversy in which thirty nominees for the prestigious prize were named,
The Angoulême Grand Prix 2016 votes are in after the judges withdrew the original long nomination, after receiving criticism of having an all male list of
So the Angloueme Grand Prix got some much unwanted publicity this year after their decision to nominate thirty men for the most prestigious award in
Archie Comics is foreign to me. It was never made available to a British audience outside a comic book shop, and rarely ordered if that. My first actual
Letter 44, the Oni Press series much enjoyed by Bleeding Cool by Charles Soule and Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque is published by Glénat in France. And it
First they listed thirty nominees for the Angoulême Grand Prix, the most prestigious award in the comics medium. No women were on the list. Then, after
We reported that, after mass exodus of nominated creators in the light of no women being listed on the Angoulême Grand Prix list, the Festival had
They started with thirty. Then there were twenty-seven. Then there were twenty-four. Then there were twenty-two. And it was starting to look like they, as
FranceTVinfo adds two more Angouleme Grand Prix nominees withdrawing their name from the prize in protest against no women being selected for the
One they could have managed. Two, possibly, Maybe even three. But six? Milo Manara, Etienne Davodeau and Charles Burns add their names to the Angoulême
The Angoulême Grand Prix is the most prestigious award in the comic book medium, recognising a creator's contribution to the artform over their life. This
Angoulême have announced their Official Selection for 2015, what they consider the best comic books published in the French language for the last year. It
It is traditional each year for the President of Angoulême, the biggest comic art festival in the world, to draw a poster for the show. And so this years
Last month, the owners of the Angoulême Festival, the largest comic book convention in the Western World, announced that it had canceled its contract with
By Chris Thompson Following on from last Orbital in Conversation with the inspirational duo of Sepideh Jodeyri & Miss Lasko-Gross (which you can still
The Angoulême Awards have now all been presented, as well as the Grand Prix Award to Katsuhiro Otomo and the Grand Prix Special Prize to Charlie Hebdo.
Laurent Queyssi writes for Bleeding Cool, The Angoulême Comics Festival isn't your typical comic-book convention. The publishers' and booksellers' booths,