Angoulême Archives

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

The most famous French language comics schools are the St. Luc Institute in Brussels and the Angoulême School. Strangely, I don't think that Paris had

Bleeding Cool is a little freaked by our seeming-clairvoyance here... But Bill Watterson, Katsuhiro Otomo and Alan Moore have won the first round of

The Grand Prix at Angoulême is the highest acclaim any comic book creator can receive in comics. Voted on by the Grand Prix Academy made up of acclaimed

The highly regarded prizes given out by the Angoulême Comic Book Festival have, in the past, been criticised for being too insular. Recognising comic book

Angoulême, the best and biggest comic book festival in the Western world, has unveiled it's official selection for its 41st year, a list of what it

While I was in Phoenix, Brendon kindly told you all that Bleu Est Une Couleur Chaude, translated as Blue Is The Warmest Colour is the first film based on

Xavier Lancel is the editor-in-chief of famous French magazine SCARCE on US comics. the magazine has been running since 1983, making it one of the oldest

Louis Trondheim tweeted the shortlist of the Angouleme Grand Prix presented to the Academy, and the five names listed. He added; La majorité de l'Académie

The Angoulême Festival has revealed their winners of 2013. The Grand Prix was split, between Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball who received a

Wishing I were in Angoulême, the 40th such occasion in France, and the largest comics festival of its kind in the world... Comic book authors knighted by

Expect those ComiXology Around The World posts on Bleeding Cool to start looking a little different. ComiXology gave announced they are opening a Paris

The French bookstore chain Cultura has replaced FNAC as the main sponsor of the world's largest and most prestigious comics convention. This represents a

The 40th Angoulême Festival has published its official selection of titles for the year, which form a shortlist for the Awards given out in the show in

Legendary French cartoonist and one of the founders of L'Association, Louis Trondheim has written an open letter to the largest comics festival in the