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This Week’s Article: Angouleme 2011

Posted: April 3, 2011

My New Year doesn’t properly kick off till the last weekend in January when I make my annual pilgrimage and battery re-charge to the biggest and best comics festival in the world (outside Asia). Two hours by TGV from Paris, Angoulême lies on plateau above the Charente river in the south west of France. If you’re wondering why this historic city, a former centre of paper-making, has become world-famous as the combined Cannes, Frankfurt, San Diego and Mecca of comics, the capital of the ‘9th Art’, it boils down to timing and politics. Read the full article here…

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