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Article: Angoulême 2013 Report
Posted: April 2, 2013
The city’s state-of-the-art theatre was packed to the rafters for this year’s Awards Ceremony at the 40th edition of the Angoulême International Comics Festival, the Cannes, Frankfurt and Mecca of worldwide comics wrapped up in one, held from January 31st to February 3rd in south-west France. On stage was a rock band playing appropriate tracks for each Master of Ceremonies Jean-Pierre Dionnet, co-founder of seminal magazine Métal Hurlant, as each Prize was announced.
Bristol-based Jon McNaught (above) couldn’t quite believe it when he scooped the Revelation Prize given to a first-time published author for the French edition of his exquisite duet of poignant tales in Dockwood from Nobrow. And the Special Jury Prize went to the translation of Glyn Dillon‘s The Nao of Brown, originally from SelfMadeHero - too bad that Glyn had already gone back to London. Read the rest of my report here…
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