Angoulême
2009 - small pictures
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St Pancrass at eight in the morning.
| EVERYone on that train went to Disneyland Europe. Except me. And I nearly did as well, because I very, very nearly missed the stop at Lille. (no announcement whatsoever, and my clock had stopped, and the bit of Lille station looked like a rough tunnel. Guess that's 'A'rchitecture.). |
Waiting Room, Lille
Reception at the CNBDI (the Comics Museum)
Le Chat Noir
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Expo 'Frank Margerin' (in the theatre) For this one I had a permanent audience of 20 kids, who were being carted through the popular bits of the Festival (Margerin is a star in France). The teacher kept urging them to take a look at the exhibition as they had to move on, but no go. |
Champs de Mars, Glénat queues
Expo 'Dupuy & Berberian'
Fanzine award and other prizes, for schools etc.
Expo 'Winschluss'
Expo 'Flamands'
(ie Flemish cartoonists, - the big paper doll is by Pieter de Poortere)
Bar
Jean-Paul Jennequin (with the checkered shirt)
Posy Simmons Interview
Expo 'Shigeru Mizuki'
James Kochalka Interview (with Jean-Paul, who now sports a mustache)
Expo 'Sai Comics' (from South Korea)
Preview of the new Miyazake film. Very impressive (apart from the music at the end)
Expo 'Julie M.' (nice illustrations - although I wish she'd do more comics)
final press conference
A novelty: the main award ceremony takes place right at the end. Something about making the Monday newspapers. Main winners were Blutch and Winschluss (that's supposed to be him here). - Posy also got a prize, for 'Tamara Drew'.
2006
Official opering at the CNBDI Comics Musum (with Wolinski)
Awards for best album etc at the theatre
Queuing for a 'dedication' (signature with drawing) by J.P.Peyraud
Charles Berberian, Andi Watson, Philippe Dupuy, Moderator
Matti Hagelberg, Kati Kovac, Katia Tukenainen, Terhi Ekebom, KIrsi KInnunen, Moderator
That drawings was commented on in this Finnish blog
Ralf König
Auditorium (after this it would be very full, for Bilal, but I was at a ...
... discussion by L'association chaps (Menu, Killofer, Baudoin, Trondheim) about the usefulness of signing books.
(They didn't have a table this year, some sort of protest against one thing or another)
Exposition Chococreed (here I also took lots of photos)
and here too, the 'concert dessin', meaning artists drawing life on stage with music
Finnish disco evening at the very posh 'Hotel de Ville'
Ben Katchor
Exhibition 'Coconino World'
Exhibition 'Wolinski' at the Comcis Museum
Railway station Angouleme with comics ogre
Paris, Gabrielle Bell and Matt Kindt at Comicshop 'Superheros
Jimmy Beaulieu (right) at the Canadien Cultural Institute
Exhibition Matti Hagelberg and Katia Tukenainen at the Finnish Cultural Institute
(I made some sketches in this room 4 years ago, see Angouleme 2002)
Exhibition 'Zep' (creator of comics superstar 'Titeuf')
This show was the main exhibition at last year's Angouleme, which I had missed. Lots of original watercolours.
Once more the shop 'Superheros', which contrary to its name is especially good for finding alternative comics. Although,
one of the things that really have changed in recent years in France is how much 'alternative' comics have entered the mainstream...
2003
 Paris railway terminal Montparnasse where the trains to Angoulem leave from.  Special tent for internantional dealmaking. (I got in as a journalist.)  Espace Franquin. (Franquin room). Another special meeting place for journalists and artists.  Opening of the Herge memorial, actually the re-naming of a whole street. Herge's widow was there, as was the Queen of Belgium etc, but I could see a thing.- Later on a TV crew filmed me drawing, so I have been on telly. So there.  Grand prizegiving ('palmareze'). The big prize for best Album went to Chris Ware (his Jim Corrigan had juts been published, and what can compete against that?). But he wasn't there, too busy working. Good for him of course, still, a bit disappointing. - J.C.Denis got prize for best script, which cheesed him off a bit, because he's a very proud artist as well.  Cool exhibition featuring truckloads of old books all over the place (which was a motiv of the exhibited album).  Small but interesting expo at the Italian tourist office. They had good food too, but I was too busy with the sketch, and then had to go off with the Platirum mailinglist group.  Amazing exhibition by the Ferraille crew. About a make believe robotic cinema/comics star, with fake posters, dolls, comics, films, the lot. Superb.  'New York Tent' aka Fanzine Tent. Where all the fanzines are. Well, most, some snuck into the main tent. Absolutely overwhelming. And wonderful stuff to buy. Unmissable.  Bunch of sketches done at 'Le Chat Noir', pub where lots of comics people meet.      Another pub, or rather hotel with a large bar, which was still open the Chat Noir close, at 3 in the moring. (yes, insane.). That's Charles Berberian on the left.  Here are a number of Mini-publishers who made it into the main tent: Flblb, Atrablie, Büb, Fremok. They were actually packing up, when I made this. Paris   Christian Schad expo |
2002
Train from Frankfurt to Paris
Two friends joining at Kaiserslautern.
Paris Montparnasse, where the trains are leaving for the south of France, including the one to Angouleme.
Angouleme at night. This was done on the last day, when even the 'Chat Noir' was closed (notice head of cat), one of the main haunts for international cartoonists.
Small cafe next to the Tent New York (I think), where I had a long and peaceful breakfast with a friend. Outside the long queue for the festival tickets.
Main tent before the masses are let inside. Topshelf/Knockabout table in the middle. That poster shows Depp in 'From Hell'.
Tent New York, the Fanzine tent.
Same place, with Stripburger table in the middle.
Will Eisner interview. Note his signature. ('Will Eisner, I think')
Fanzine tent again, at night. The sketching at night resulted in a terrible cold, obviously. (This was January).
Angouleme Comics Museum 'CNBDI'
Expo 'Martin Veyron' inside the museum.
More exhibitions, the one below organized by Jean-Paul Jennequin about US independent cartoonists.
Large exhibition over three floors of the municipal theatre (which also houses the annual prizes) showing work by dozens of young, sometimes very unknown, cartoonists.
Wacky event-expo by the group Requins Marteaux, the infamous 'Supermarché Ferraille'. A pseudo supermarket full of 'selfmade' products. On their wine bottles (real) was a very fancy looking label, with the tiny incription 'Les aristocrates a la laterne'.
(another sketch done late in the evening, but I was too tired to do any more crosshatching). Palais de la Justice, with a small show of new artists from the Angouleme comic school.
Paris, on Tuesday, Institute Finlandais (Finnish Institute), with yet more comics, this time of a famous (in Finland) newspaper strip by Jussi Tuomola. I didn't find time to actually read any, which is a shame, because this was the only opportunity to see them with translation labels.
The artist in the middle, signing books.
The Swedish Institute, with yet more comic exhibitions.
Paris - Comicshop 'Au Regard Moderne' (August 2002)
1999
(Sorry, only two decent drawings from this one...)
Exposition Francois Boucq
I made this sketch on Wednesday evening, hence the lack of visitors.
Lewis Trondheim (sporting a beard), demonstrated how to draw a monster. This was billed as a kiddie event, they sat in the first row, the grown ups were parents.
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