Arrival: T. Thohauge & Steffen P. Maarup, publisher at Aben Maler, in the press centre at City Hall
Danish cartoonist rising star Johan F. Krarup
The City Hall tower
Matthias Wivel aka The Metabaron, gone Cyclops
The Metabaron, Steffen Maarup &, Johan F Krarup in front of Le Souris vert (The Green Mouse), two steps away from legendary Angoulême bar Le Chat noir (The Black Cat)
Enter the Swedes: Fredrik Strömberg & Jakob Hallin
TT talks to Mathias Elftorp, of C'est Bon Kultur/Piracy Is Liberation
Knut Larsson (Canimus, Lokmannen, Krokodilstaden) talks to Bart Beaty
Bryan Talbot, ?, Paul Gravett
"Navette"-HQ; the official free ride of the festival
JFK in front of a lovely maiden, decoratively placed on a bed reading comics. Only in France, I guess...
Kids with Boule et Bill-bandanas
The Bunker crew at the Dupuis stand
TT enjoys the latest in French smut decadence
Lots of copy product on the graphic novel shelves at Glénat
In the merchandise tent
From the Hiroshi Hirata exhibition
Illo by Hirata
Small section of the Shigeru Mizuki exhibition
Sensei Shigeru Mizuki (will somebody please publish Kitaro, Nonnonbâ and Opération Mort in English?)
Kids drawing at the Mizuki show
The Metabaron at the Maison des auters, which exhibited comics from former tenants
From the retrospective Dupuy & Berberian exhibition: here a Rube Goldberg style machine showing how the presidents of Angoulême produce their comics
Chalk art by the Presidents
Charles Berberian, T. Thorhauge
Section of an original page from "Journal d'un album" (eng. "Get a Life")
A Monsieur Jean page, published in English by Drawn and Quarterly
Illo of the six Association founders -- can you tell who's who?
Pastiche modernism from Dupuy & Berberian
Minidiscs with personalised labels
Batman page by Lewis Trondheim, from a jam story offered to Berberian on his 40th birthday
David B. does Batman
Blutch won the Grand Prix, despite having also messed with Bats
From the Maison close peepshow
The Bittercomix show at CIBDI
Japanese Kiriko Nananan exhibition at the CIBDI
Nananan originals
Rising stars: Ruppert & Mulot
Cat on a comfortably hot iron radiator
Strapazin is in the house!
Night life, downtown
The emperor of autobiographical comics, Fabrice Neaud
The street with no name
Messing with the Russian mob, who guarded the Flemish Party at the theatre, Friday night
JFK and Metabaron discussing secret Colombian hand gestures
The awsome Posy Simmonds talks about her masterpiece Gemma Bovery
... and how she manages to orchestrate her clear but complicated page layout
... and about Tamara Drewe, her latest, masterly graphic novel
The CIBDI comics library
Émile Bravo talks about his Spirou story
The view from CIBDI's back door
...plus 45 degrees
Yoon Sun Park, of Korean artists collective Sai comics, drawing a wall-sized comic live
Jeunes talents, impressive as always
More jeunes talents
Trondheim/Sfar clone Sébastien Chrisostome's "Nage Libre" show
Matthias inspects the winner of the jeunes talents competition, Clément Paurd of Strasbourg
Patisserie
Boule et Bill celebrated their 50th anniversary. The other kids hung around in the Manga Building
Crowds at the Nouvelle monde tent, Saturday
Comic book mastermind Chris Ware signing at L'Association
JFK and Chris Ware
Another American master, Dan Clowes, signing at Cornélius
L'Asso-enfant terrible Jean-Christophe Menu (red stripes, left), and queen of comics Marjane Satrapi (brown stripes, right)
The absolutely fantastic Satrapi
Dash Shaw signing Bottomless Belly Button
Even the busses know their classics
The Flemish Exhibition, in many ways the best and most spectacular show
More Flemish comics display
Flemish cartoon
More from the Flemish show
1001 animals, nice children's expo
Winshluss is Dead, but he still draws like a madman...
Winshluss illo
Chris Ware, Dan Clowes, both 12 years old, signing Kramers Ergot -- what more do you need?
American masters Ware and Clowes
The hyper-inventive Florent Ruppert of dynamic duo Ruppert & Mulot (the latter is just off screen). Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU3pYjVEoh0
Sensei Willem, signing at the Cornélius booth
"Well, to appreciate gangsta hiphop, one must understand that ... etc"
Alex Holden & Thorhauge
JFK & Andrea Bruno (of Canicola)
Steffen Maarup (left), Tom Gauld (right) at Le Chat noir
Colombian hand gestures in action
...yes, they have listened and learned
The Dancing Smurf caught on camera
The President of the Republic, on the floor
Florent Ruppert talks to comics critic Didier Pasamonik
Former festival director Jean-Marc Thévenet talks to artistic director Benoît Mouchard
Nighttime view from the hill
Chris Ware displaying the single best conceptual idea in the gigantic Kramers Ergot 7
Of course, The Metabaron had to check in with his master, Mighty Moebius Redux
We need more families like this.
