Ultimate Guide to the Angouleme International Comics Festival 2018
Paris à la Geek gives you the ultimate guide to the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême, especially if you DON'T SPEAK FRENCH. Miguel Guerra and Suzy Dias visit this fantastic city-wide festival for the first time and show you around.
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Angouleme International Comics Festival is an event and I like events. Angouleme International Comics Festival is the second largest comics festival in Europe after Lucca Comics & Games, and the third biggest in the world after Lucca Comics & Games and the Comiket. Every year since 1974, the four-day International Comic Strip Festival has been celebrating the 'Ninth Art', which has long held a special place in French culture. In the last years, comic book artists, writers and aficionados have made the annual pilgrimage to the French city of Angoulême for its internationally-renowned comic book festival. Hundreds of thousands comics lovers gather in the south-western city to celebrate the art and award groundbreaking work that’s been done in the preceding months. Its success has since cemented the city’s place as the home of comic strip and manga appreciation. The International Comic Strip Festival is now a key event for professionals and the general public alike. The festival includes a programme of exhibitions, signings and performances in honour of one of the most dynamic and creative forms of expression around today.
Comic Festival in Angoulême | Euromaxx
The international comic scene meets for the 42nd time in Angoulême in western France. This year the festival takes place in the wake of the deadly attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, and a prize for freedom of speech will be presented for the first time.
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Angouleme International Comic Festival altercation
This is the forty-first year the Angouleme International Comic Festival was held in France. South Koreans have participated for the past ten years. This year the South Korean contribution to the Festival include magna bashing Japan over the Comfort Women issue.
In response to this one-sided view of history a group of Japanese citizens, and one Texans reserved a booth at the Festival, traveled to Angouleme, France to present in magna form another version on the issue.
A collaborator provocateur masquerading as one of the event organizers, slid into the Japanese booth took down banners, and stole them with some other printed material. Upon the Japanese and one Texan returning to the vandalized booth, held a press conference. It was during this press conference the provocateur and possibly thief returned to disrupt press conference. This video is of that disruption.
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2018 Angouleme International Comics Festival - Artists Featured in Taiwan Pavilion (Trailer)
Taiwan Comics – A market for fun !
2018 will be the seventh time the Angouleme festival features a Taiwan pavilion.
This year, the pavilion will presented as a Taiwanese favorite—a market.
In addition to the charming wet markets and night markets, all kinds of interesting marketplaces have cropped up in Taiwan in the recent decade. There’s the Simple Life Festival for music and performances; the Vintage Renewal Market for vintage goods, held in a museum of history; and the Ocean Home Wild Market, which brings together handicrafts, stage performances, and live music over one week on Taiwan’s eastern coast.
There are also several comics festival that draw large crowds each year: the Comic Exhibition that focuses on Japanese stylings; Fancy Frontier; which brings together doujinshi, original works, and model figures; and Zine Day Festival, which spotlights independently published works.
Taiwan’s comics world has also diverged into three major streams in recent years, each with a distinct reader base.
• Manga, a Japanese-influenced, commercially mainstream form of work, chiefly with the main goal of breaking into Japan.
• Graphic novels, focused on distinct personal styles and subjective narratives, and targeted at adult readers.
• Zines, small-scale creations, often custom-designed and hand-bound, usually produced and sold by the creators themselves.
As comics magazines have declined and digital comics have emerged, physical comic books are no longer as commercially successful as they once were. But they are now finding more direct paths into readers’ hands in fan conventions, independent bookstores, and creative marketplaces of all kinds.
The six creators showcased in the Taiwan Pavilion have each charted their own course as creators.
• Ruan Guang-Min is taking part in Angouleme for the second time this year. His The Corner Store has just won Comic of the Year at the 2017 Golden Comic Awards in Taiwan. Nostalgia permeates his works in both theme and atmosphere.
• Jimmeh Aitch created Halo-Halo Manila, a work of graphic journalism that is entirely hand-drawn. He currently resides in Manila.
• HOM releases her work primarily through digital channels and social media, depicting the lives and thoughts of contemporary Taiwanese youths. A third collection of her Big City Little Things series has now been published.
• SALLY is one of the few creators to produce both fanzines and commercial comics, effortlessly navigating two very different worlds. The second volume of her Left Hand is now in the works.
• Yao-Ching was trained in National Taiwan Normal University’s Fine Arts Department. His short works debate philosophical ideas through black-and-white lines. He has started distributing his work through comics marketplaces. He was nominated for Best New Talent at the Golden Comics Awards for The Daughter of Comics.
• Elainee is an illustrator who became a 2018 Angouleme artist in residence thanks to the colorful and simple charm of her work. She was also the main visual creator for the Taiwan Pavilion this year. Her comics work have not yet been released, but her debut is much anticipated.
The Taiwanese creators of the 2018 Angouleme Festival will be recapturing the joy of going to the market as a child. They will also become vendors at the market, telling readers/customers about their own work, about the stories and delight of creation. They will also showcase the diverse faces of Taiwanese comics.
You are invited to Angouleme in the wintertime and experience the rich and imaginative fabric of Taiwan’s comics world.
Let’s go to the market! Have Fun in Angouleme!
Curator of Taiwan Pavilion
Aho HUANG
Angoulême International Comics Festival
2016 Angouleme International Comics Festival Artist from TAIWAN:YEH Ming-Hsuan
2019 Angouleme International Comics Festival - Artists Featured in Taiwan Pavilion - KUANG HSIA Chia
KUANG-HSIA Chia
Over more than two decades, Kuang has published 25 tankōbon (standalone comics) under three different pseudonyms — Kuang Hsia-chia, Huang Chia-li, and Jelly Wei — in the genres of homoerotica (boy's love), teenage girls, and color comics for mobile readers. He enjoys experimenting with a variety of subject matters and is particularly interested in Taiwan's local life and folk traditions. In Stranger, his most recent work, Kuang uses idyllic settings of banana farms in Southern Taiwan and the island of Penghu as backdrops for homoerotic (boy's love) manga. Kuang aims to imbue his art with intriguing, emotionally charged stories while exploring different forms and methods of expression in manga.
Awards and Exhibitions:
2013 Awarded 'Best Comic for Teenage Girls' at the Golden Comic Awards
2012 Featured Artist at the Taiwan Pavilion, Angoulême International Comics Festival
2011 First Place, Comic Awards, National Academy for Educational Research (NAER)
'Best Original Screenplay', New Taipei City Anime Screenplay Contest
Nominated for 'Best Comic for Teenage Girls', Golden Comic Awards
2010 Nominated for 'Best Comic for Teenage Girls', Golden Comic Awards
2009 Awarded 'Best Comic Strip', National Institute for Compilation and Translation
Nominated for 'Outstanding Comic', Golden Tripod Awards for Publications
2005 'Best Comic Plot' Award, Government Information Office, Executive Yuan
2000 Awarded 'Best Comic Strip', National Institute for Compilation and Translation
Selected Works:
2018 Stranger / Sharp Point Press
2016-2017 Remember My Face / Comico
2013-2015 The Monster Vols. 1-3 / Tong Li Publishing Co.
2010 Guardian Spirit Touch / Tong Li Publishing Co.
2008 Escape Plan / Tong Li Publishing Co.
2005-2009 Fashion Messiah / Tong Li Publishing Co.
Angoulême International Comics Festival 2018 Impression
An impression of the international comics festival in Angoulême, while I was there from the 20th to 28th. The festival itself was from the 24th to 28th. It was impossible to visit everything but I still wanted to throw something together from what I did visit.
Dreams by Joakim Karud
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Osamu Tezuka Retrospective at the Angouleme Comics Festival 2018
Paris à la Geek visits the Osamu Tezuka retrospective Manga no Kamisama at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême. Miguel Guerra and Suzy Dias drooled as they looked at over 200 original pieces of art, some of which date from the late 1940s (rare indeed!). We highlighted a few for you and shared our thoughts on the God of Manga!
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Watch more:
• Ultimate Guide to the Angoulême International Comics Festival 2018…especially of you don’t speak French
• The Many Faces of Naoki Urasawa (part 1)
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Read more:
• Ultimate Guide to the Angoulême International Comics Festival 2018…especially of you don’t speak French (blog)
• Angoulême International Comics Festival Everything You Need to Know - Trains, Hotels & Passes:
2018 Angouleme International Comics Festival Taiwan Pavilion: SALLY (ENG sub.)
SALLY was born in Taipei and received her BA in architecture. She is a member of the Club Zip collective of comics lovers. Working in both commercially-oriented original comics and indie fan comics, Sally uses her easy-to-read style to tell stories under the surface—the things in everyday life that seem reasonable but are in fact absurd.
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kokoroto: Angoulême International Comics Festival
Anne war für euch auf dem Angoulême International Comics Festival und hat hier den Zeichner Felix Pestemer interviewt, der sein aktuelles Werk Der Staub der Ahnen vorstellt.
2018 Angouleme International Comics Festival Taiwan Pavilion: Yao-ching 曾耀慶 (ENG sub.)
Yao-Ching was born in Kaohsiung in 1989. He received his BA in fine arts at National Taiwan Normal University, and began creating comics in 2012. Starting with a ball-point pen and computer dot shading, his experiments with different tools led him to using mostly ink brushes, poster paint, oils, and cotton paper in his current works. For him, his creations are a proscenium that turns everyday life into a stage, where ordinary things become scenery and people become characters. He presents the theater of life using non-realistic language. He also experiments with allowing the medium of his work, such as paper, screens, and ink, to intervene in the content of his creation, becoming part of the story. He records his dreams using drawings and text, which often become the basis of his stories. Dreams, like stories, can be a reflection of real life; sometimes, looking into the mirror can give you an even truer view on the world than simply looking at the real thing.
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Desde Francia, informe sobre el Festival de Historieta de Angouleme
Desde el lugar de los hechos, Claudio nos cuenta su visión sobre el festival de cómic más importante de Europa.
LI Chi-tak, Hong Kong Wizard @ The 43rd Angoulême International Comics Festival (FRANCE)
With regular presence at the Angoulême Festival, the Hong Kong comics returns to the forefront with a monographic exhibition dedicated to one of its most talented artists, the prolific Li Chi-tak.
多次亮相安古蘭國際漫畫節的香港漫畫今年再度參展，並帶來香港最強勢漫畫家之一──利志達先生的個人漫畫展覽。
Date 日期： 2016/1/28-2016/1/31 (四至日)(Thursday - Sunday)
Time 時間： 2016/1/28, 29, 31 (10:00-19:00) 2016/1/30 (10:00-20:00)
Venue 地點：法國安古蘭國際漫畫節Quartier Asie / Little Asia, Angoulême International Comics Festival
2016 Angouleme International Comics Festival Artist from TAIWAN:Yi-Huan
2019 Angouleme International Comics Festival - Artists Featured in Taiwan Pavilion
2016 Angouleme International Comics Festival Artist from TAIWAN:Crystal KUNG