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Angoulême 2006

Drawings & Photos by Andy

Palmares (Awards for 'best album' etc.)


Leclerc, Fréderique Vidal (Bodoï), Thévenet (directeur du festival)













Gipi









Derib, Job
















Dominique Poncet (PLG)









Ville Ranta




Prix Fanzine - 'Mycose'




Catel, Etienne Davodeau




Etienne Davodeau




Benoit Monchart (directeur artistique du festival), Lewis Trondheim




Marguerite Abouet & Clement Oubrerie




Thierry Mornet, Mike Mignola




Gendrot Claude Dupuis (directeur editorial)




Benoit Monchart, Ralf König, Fabrice Ricker (König's translator)




Etienne Davodeau




Jim Lee




Juanjo Guarnido & Juan Diaz Canales




Paul Gravett




Vincent Bernière (Seuil editorial)




Wolinski




Gipi




























(after making this sketch I blagged my way to the front to take the photos)









Theatre Foyer, after awards ceremony






Bar

3 Paul Gravett / 5,6 Tom Gould / 7,8,9 Gary Northfield / 9, 10 Marie de la Villèsbrunne
10, 11 Nick Abadzis / 14-17 Paul Gravett & Russian fanzine editor








Big Ben (Groinge) - Ria Schulpen (Bries) - El Don Guillermo (Misma)

These last two were in some exhibition in town.
He's looking at my fanzine with sketches of the Frankfurt Bookfair.





Jimmy Beaulieu fait un dédicace






Ben Katchor










Chococreed & Morvel
















Comics Museum (CNBDI)
These were permanent displays. By now they've all gone of course, as the museum moved to another building.



Peurs du Noirs' (CNBDI)



Expo: Wolinsky at the Comics Museum (CNBDI)




The little curtain on the left was closed during the festival, because behind it were the naughty sexy comics.


Expo Coconino World






Concert Dessins starring:

Zep - O'Groj - Hervé Tanquerelle
Jean-Christophe Chauzy - Ludovic Debeurme - Blutch
Charles Berberian - Philippe Dupuy - Jeff Pourquié - Grégory Mardon


This festival event was introduced last year by the cartoonist Zep, a combination of music and life drawing. Circa ten artists are producing a complete pre-scripted story on two tables, which is being filmed and shown on the screen. When one artist has nearly finished a panel, the next one is ready to go on, brush hovering over paper, so there is constant action, accompanied by loud, moody or pulsating music. The artists are very cool and calm while the audience goes nuts with admiration and applause.




(The Encore)









Dinner at La Palma with (left to right) Paul Gravett, James McKay, Peter Stanbury, Laurent Mélikian



Dinner (Ben Katchor, Richard McGuire)




Dupuy / Berberian and Andi Watson






(2 days later, table of publisher 'Ca et la')
Andy Watson with Serge Ewenczyk (editeur)



Figurines (There's a photo of me, with Tweety)



Fréderic Boilet



'Rencontres Internationales' Finnish alternative cartoonists

Ltr: Matti Hagelberg, Kati Kovacs, Katja Tukinainen, Terhi Ekebom, Kirsi Kinnunen (organizer, translator), French moderator




That first drawing was commented on in this Finnish blog







Exposition Martin Tom Dieck, Musée du papier



Bigwigs from L'association at the 'Theatre de Poche'

(Menu, Killofer, Baudoin, Trondheim) arguing about the usefulness (and humiliation) of signing books.
(They didn't have a table this year, some sort of protest against one thing or another.)





Hotel de Ville / Soiree finlandaise


Not very good photos, but maybe interesting to compare them to the drawing. (Yes, I can draw in the dark.)
There's a brilliant autobio-comic-gag by Nicolas Mahler which relates the behaviour of drunk fins at this very evening.
It keeps reminding me how attractive it would be to have a website just for Comic-Festival-Diary-Comics.







Snow



Angouleme on Monday (when everyone had gone)



View



Paris (ie post-Angouleme)


Exhibition 'Zep' (creator of comics superstar 'Titeuf')
This show was the main exhibition at last year's Angouleme, which I had missed. Lots of original watercolours.






Paris (ie post-Angouleme)
Jimmy Beaulieu at the Institute Canadien







Paris (ie post-Angouleme)
Gabrielle Bell & Matt Kindt at the Comicshop Superheros




I went back later for the second drawing and was sitting more or less where the signing table stood.








Official opering at the CNBDI Comics Musum (with Wolinski)




Queuing for a 'dedication' (signature with drawing) by J.P.Peyraud




Ralf König




Railway station Angouleme with comics ogre




Exhibition Matti Hagelberg and Katia Tukenainen at the Finnish Cultural Institute
(I made some sketches in this room 4 years earlier, see Angouleme 2002)




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