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My Angoulême Festival Events
Posted: January 22, 2011
What a buzz to be asked to do three ‘gigs’ as part of the biggest (excluding Comiket in Japan!) and in my view best International Comics Festival in the world! If any of you are coming to the Angoulême International Comics Festival in France next week, I do hope you can come to one or more of my three events.
First, I’m thrilled to be invited to lecture (in French) about the British genius of uninhibited comedy comics for kids of all ages, Leo Baxendale! My illustrated talk takes place on Thursday 27 January from 1-2.30pm in the Gershwin Room at the Conservatoire Gabriel Fauré. As well as talking about Baxendale’s career from The Beano to Wham!, Monster Fun to Willy the Kid, and more classic favourites, I’ll also touch on the surprising French versions of some of his best-loved creations. Full details here.
Secondly, I am chairing a panel entitled The market and opportunities for BD in UK and North America’ also on Thursday 27 January from 4-5pm in the Rights Market on the Champs de Mars (this is a pros and press venue only, sorry!). Joining me will be leading figures from the US, Canadian and British comics industry: Mark Smylie (Archaia); Tim Weisch (Dark Horse); Peggy Burns (Drawn & Quarterly); Calista Brill (First Second); Carol Burrell (Graphic Universe); Todd Martinez (Image); and Alex Bowler (Jonathan Cape). We’ll be discussing: can bandes dessinées compete in the world market with the phenomena of manga from Japan or superheroes from America? Tintin took over twenty years to cross the Channel for the first time into English. Asterix had to wait a whole decade to be faithfully translated. In the 21st century, certain French-language comics can be exported much more rapidly, but how many others may never be find their Anglophone readership? Discover the current approaches and policies of several leading North American and British publishers towards their importing and promoting of bandes dessinées.
And thirdly, on Saturday 29 January 5-6.30pm I’ll give a lecture (again in French) on The Appearance of Autobiography in Comics, that’s the subtitle to what I am calling Autobiofictionalography, to use Lynda Barry’s wonderful neologism! That also takes place in the Gershwin Room at the Conservatoire Gabriel Fauré. Full details here. Hope to see some of you there!
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