Great article about Quebec comics at Angouleme and a good look at the festival in general. Lots of discussion about the current state of the festival and some of the internal divisions of the fest between the organizers and artists. There’s been some controversy regarding 9e, who organize the festival, and the creators that attend over the committee’s refocusing on a more commercial outlook for the event, and more disgusting developments such as the rape of Chloe, a former employee that had her employment terminated after the horrific incident. This has caused many publishers to create a counter event in protest, with some publishers looking to avoid the festival for the foreseeable future.
A very interesting and informative article. I’m still quite new to the BD scene, and had only hard about the festival in Angouleme vaguely, so it was an intriguing look into the preeminent BD comic festival. I also discovered some new publishers to check out such as Le Monte-en-l’air, La Pasteque and Les Requins Marteaux. There’s a lot of great pictures too peruse as well.
I had no clue about comics from Quebec honestly. Although if someone had mentioned French-Canadian comics and there being crossover with Bandee Desinee in Europe I wouldn’t have been suprised. I know there’s a fair amount of French music from Canada. I live fairly close to Canada on the US/Canada border and one of the radio stations I can get out here is exclusively in French, there’s some great sounding music on there too.
Yeah, relatively new. It’s been around a year and a half, maybe two, that I’ve started looking into BD with any focus. I suppose I had more of an exposure than most by being into the alternative comix scene in the US which has some association with BD at times, especially Fantagraphics Comics. So that definitely helped in getting me into them. I’m sure there were.a.few scattered BD I’ve read in the past that didn’t even register with me as such in the past, but nothing I can recall.
For sure! It’s nice the signal/noise ratio is low on the fediverse, but at times it needs a little signal boost. It’s also a good way for me to immerse myself and get more familiar with BD stuff in general, a win win on all fronts. I’ve learned a lot even in the past week or two.
I know there is some tags at the bottom of the article. I didn’t pay close attention to them. I did try the Angouleme tag, which was suprisingly scant, only a few articles from a 4 or 5 year span. In the next week or so I am going to find some sites that cover BD exclusively, or at least have a larger focus, as TCJ seems to only have a sprinkly at times.
Those were the publishers mentioned at the counter festival, which were mostly smaller, independent publishers. I made a note of them for that fact alone since it hadn’t occured to me to look at the BD output outside of the mainstream publishers.
Feel free to name it if you can, as maybe they have an online presence I can stream. I’ve kind of run out of French music to listen to at the moment.
Aye, they’ve also helped me get more in to BD. Before I started seeing Euro titles come up through Fanta, I’d pretty much only read Tintin, Asterix and Lucky Luke. I guess that shift first happened ~17yrs ago, and at time all I was reading was indie/alt, like you I guess.
If it helps, I’ve done roundups of such news/review/discussion sites that can be found on the sidebar. They’re mostly in French (turn on translate), but Pipeline Comics happens to be an American who mainly covers Euro comics. Titus is real good, too!
At some point I should really try to make a master list of all the publishers I can. Unfortunately, apart from current events, I’m slowed way down by having CFS/ME, and on top of that I get pretty discouraged sometimes by the seemingly endless image-posting issues both here and at Imgur, which I try not to use, anymore.