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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,

So a few Americans went to France this week, for the world's largest comic book art festival. Paris! Made it. @WesCraigComics @ScaleraMatteo

After the events of early January, this year's Angoulême was always going to be dominated by expressions of support and memorial to French satirical

Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo has won the Grand Prix for Angoulême, recognising a comic book creator's contribution to the artform. His acceptance speech

The Bill Watterson - The Quest for Calvin and Hobbes exhibition has opened in Angoulême, at the start of the largest comics art festival in the world.

ComiXology have returned to Angoulême, the world's biggest comic book festival, for their third year with a sale to spotlight comics, bandes dessinées

This is a majestic page from Asterix And The Laurel Wreath by Goscinny and Uderzo, which has been donated to raise money for the families of those killed

Next week sees the beginning of the world's largest comic book art festival, in the French town of Angouleme. With the Grand Prix award going to either

Angoulême is the world's largest comic book art festival, with its 42nd annual event scheduled for the end of the month, in the French town that gives the

Yesterday, it was announced that the three finalists for the Angoulême Grand Prix award, which celebrates a comic book creator's lifetime contributing to

Last year, the Angoulême Festival chose three finalists to win their Grand Prix Award for the show, and become their president at the festival for the

The list for the Angoulême Grand Prix has been published. Voted on by the Academy, the winner of the most prestigious ward in comic books is names the

The Angoulême Official Selection 2015 lists are out, collecting what the body who put on the world's largest comic book art festival consider to be the

Bill Watterson is President of next year's Angouleme Comic Art Festival in France. For which he has drawn this poster. New Bill Watterson artwork is a

La Cité de la BD is the French comic book institution that includes the Angoulême comics museum and is very influential in the annual Angoulême comic book

Drawn & Quarterly are in the midst of release quite a few diverse graphic novels, all so different, in fact, that they remind us of how vast and

By Chris Thompson Following on from last week’s Angoulême special with Joe Keatinge & friends (which you can still listen to here) – this week I

Xavier Lancel writes for Bleeding Cool, SCARCE held its usual booth in the Alternative/Small editors section of the FIBD (International Bandes Dessinées

Bleeding Cool previously reported on plans by Tintin publisher Casterman to publish a new volume one year before the character enters the public domain,

By Chris Thompson After last week’s chat with the gifted and insanely busy Zack Whedon (which you can still listen to here) – I’m back with the first of

Bill Watterson has won the Angoulême Grand Prix, giving the creator of Calvin & Hobbes membership of the Angoulême Academy and making him president of

One of the official sponsors of this year's Angoulême comic festival is SodaStream, a company under considerable PR pressure over its factory built in

So Alan Moore is one of the three main nominees for the Grand Prix of Angoulême, alongside Bill Watterson and Katsuhiro Otomo. Such an honour, the

One of the amazing regular events at Angouleme is the twenty-four hour comic event, in which comic creators, professionals, amateurs and students all