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Erlangen, Germany. Running since 1984. They are very accommodating to English speakers (it’s a university town), and they have a good mix of programming.
26.-29. May. Arrive early in the week, and you can partake of the oldest beer festival in Germany, the Bergkirchweih. (The natural refrigeration of the local hills is perfect for storing beer!) 12.-23. May.

Couldn’t help but laugh at the Google translated publishing houses – like It & There (Ca et La), Even Here (Ici Meme), and Even no Evil (Meme pas Mal) :)

But great (from a European perspective) to see you cover Angoulême so comprehensively!

This is amazing.

Let’s see if this one sticks. I can’t even count the numbers of time every 2-3 years where we wondered if there would be anpther edition of the Angouleme festival as we know it. But yeah, pretty big names signed this.

I am thrilled about this news, but I’m actually here to make a general comment on the Beat website that I’ve been meaning to make for a long time, and that is that this gray font is murder on my eyes. It is incredibly hard to read. I read this site regularly, but it is literally (yes, literally) a pain to read. Please, please use a black font, or at least a much darker gray!

The false awards, as a joke, were not a bad idea in and of themselves; it was the execution that was deeply flawed. If the awards had been given for absurd, obviously made-up categories I’m sure that the audience would have immediately gotten and played along with the gag.

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I think that you have to be very careful with humor, especially when it’s in a language that some of the nominees won’t understand.
Nominees may be bewildered to be there in the first place, watching for cues to know where to be when and trying not to trip. Making this in a French farce doesn’t make anyone any the happier.
Hopefully this year’s shambles will be a sign for the organisation to clean up their act or for more people to nope out next year. Preferably the former.

French people always expect people to understand their langage, whereas Frenchs suck at speaking foreign langages (I am so ashamed when I hear our top french leaders speaking english so bad).
That’s probably the same thing with humor. But come on, english are kings of humor, not us, that’s another domain we suck at. but please keep buying our awfull french movie comedies ! :p

I’ve been following this year’s controversies at Angoulême, but had no idea that Bondoux had become a de facto dictator. Why does anyone take this festival seriously anymore?

Matt, I’ve since heard that there is talk of not extending 9eArt + ‘s contract which this debacle would almost ensure if anyone sane is running this thing.

What was the European award show sometime around 2002-2003 where porn stars were dressed in burqas, there was a bin Laden impersonator, and they crashed a model airplane into a podium that looked like the twin towers?
I remember Peter Bagge won an award and his acceptance speech was “uh….thanks?”.

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Hermann hasn’t won precisely because he had few friends among the previous winners. Until three years ago, the winners were voted by the previous ones, a selection method that kept many worthy creators out for decades.

Most of the past winners knew very few people outside the french-belgian comics industry, for example. And the belgians themselves (Hermann among them) were rarely voted in. So although they represent a considerable portion of the french-language comics production (a third or more – including most of the top sellers!), only three of them actually won a Grand Prix – and no less than Lucky Luke creator Morris only won an anniversary award (same as Claire Bretécher). More AMERICANS won the Grand Prix than belgians!

So, much like the women, the belgians are seriously underrepresented among the Angoulême award winners. Must also add that, much like Moore, Hermann isn’t the most sociable of creators (at least that’s what people say, he was a gentleman when I met him at a festival here in Portugal years ago!). And he most certainly wouldn’t accept a “consolation prize” like the anniversary awards…

Are you going Heidi?

Can you loudly scream MAKE MORE COMICS over and over until you are removed?