{"id":677,"date":"2010-02-02T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2010\/02\/angouleme-2010-highlights\/"},"modified":"2010-02-02T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T01:47:00","slug":"angouleme-2010-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"Angoul\u00eame 2010 Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I apologize for the bullet\/tweet-like nature of this post. It\u2019s the only way I could get myself to write it. Frank will do a better Angoul\u00eame <\/a>post later.<\/p>\n

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I was at Angoul\u00eame last year, but this was my first trip to the comics museum <\/a>there. It had an exhibition of older comic originals with newer cartoonists covering the older page, plus the permanent exhibit: a timeline with a bunch of originals and books in glass cases and occasional videos. The original for this page of Johnny Craig\u2019s \u201cSplit Personality\u201d<\/a> was especially moving. That second panel! Wobbly inky lips and cross-hatching! It\u2019s like a pulpy Persona<\/em> still.<\/p>\n

Of course I loved seeing the Ware originals. They had a red pencil Quimby the Mouse<\/em> page in the permanent collection. Ware\u2019s exhibit at the Whitney Biennial was a life-changing experience for me. The under drawing, measuring\u2026 It\u2019s shocking how raw the drawing is. His drawings look so clean when they\u2019re shrunk and colored in print. In the originals they look so labored over, sometimes even crude. You can see the struggle, his thinking on the page. The Quimby<\/em> original at Angoul\u00eame was such an object; the cut zipatone, the scale, the juxtaposition between the interior panels and the more illustrative background landscape. It was engaging by itself, beyond just being preparatory work for a print book.<\/p>\n

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The Cornelius Red Colored Elegy<\/em> book <\/a>is gorgeous. It has red spot color. All of the Cornelius books are unified\u2014they\u2019re clearly a line with a consistent sensibility across books\u2014but<\/strong> you get the personality of the individual artist on the covers. It\u2019s artist first, publisher second. Hayashi<\/a> told me that they\u2019ve recently released his short animations on DVD in Japan. You\u2019d have to order them from amazon.co.jp and have a region-free dvd player to play them. He was sweet and humored my dumb questions. At festivals like this you find yourself jet-lagged in a taxi with Jose Munoz<\/a> and you\u2019re thinking, \u201cHoly shit, what do I ask Jose Munoz? What do I ask Jose Munoz?!\u201d and you end up just bugging him about random things. Try to milk those ten minutes for as much as you can.<\/p>\n

The Manga Building had a One Piece<\/em> exhibit, complete with cosplayers and prop sand dunes and palm trees. It was shoulder-to-shoulder packed. The whole thing had a fun energy. One Piece<\/em> originals look exactly like what you\u2019d think they would look like.<\/p>\n

As you\u2019ve probably heard, \u201cdedications\u201d (signings) are important in France, but Ruppert and Mulot <\/a>have raised the bar. Ruppert did a drawing of me on the first page of the book, then turned to the last page and pulled out a pre-made stencil that marked different points. After placing dots on the last page using the stencil, he used a stamp to make a small frame at the center square dots. Then he pulled out an X-Acto knife and cut out the center of the frame and the outside areas. He glued the center of the frame to the inside back cover and then cut out the original drawing on the first page. He placed the first page portrait inside what he cut out, flipped it around and put the cut-out together, to hand me a small portrait in a paper standing frame as his \u201cdedication.\u201d Damn. In the States you get a drawing of the main character\u2019s head with a word balloon saying, \u201cHi (your name here.)\u201d<\/p>\n

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While I\u2019ve acquired a lot of pulpy 60s and 70s Franco-Belgian comics<\/a>, I know very little about them. 90% have cool covers and then you open it to see Caniff hackwork. But there\u2019s some gold in that other 10%. I got some good Luc Orients<\/em> <\/a>last year, but the best thing I found at this Angoul\u00eame was this Michel Vaillant<\/em> <\/a>BD and some kind of Little Nemo homage book.<\/p>\n

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I wanted to get this Lucie Durbriano <\/a>book last year and I didn\u2019t. It annoyed me for a whole year until I went back and got it.<\/p>\n

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This woman in Germany, Ulli Lust<\/a>, did a really dense, long comic about two girls on a road trip, drawn in pencil with a green spot color. It came out in German recently. Wish I could read it.<\/p>\n

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10 Euros for the complete Airtight Garage<\/em>! I nabbed it before Frank!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I apologize for the bullet\/tweet-like nature of this post. It\u2019s the only way I could get myself to write it. Frank will do a better Angoul\u00eame post later. I was at Angoul\u00eame last year, but this was my first trip to the comics museum there. It had an exhibition of older comic originals with newer cartoonists covering the older page, plus the permanent exhibit: a timeline with a bunch of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,92,238,1155,1182],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-angouleme","tag-bande-dessinee","tag-ware","tag-ruppert-et-mulot","tag-hayashi"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}