Check which comics books received awards at Angoulême at the end of this video. Due to my original plan of not documenting my visit this one is quite a patchwork. And in case you wonder: Yes there are many pictures of comics here too:)
Thanks for the video - your enthusiasm and passion for comics really shines through. Here's the tip I got from more experienced Angouleme goers on how to arrange your schedule: -Thursday: visit the vendor tents -Friday: visit the exhibitions -Saturday: avoid the above-mentioned and visit cafés and bars to meet with friends -Sunday: get an early train out France has high speed trains, so you can reach Angouleme also from Paris in a couple of hours - and for the festival, you can even take a train directly from Charles-de-Gaulle airport to Angouleme without having to go through Paris at all. One possibility that I haven't tried but have thought about recently is flying to and staying in Bordeaux and taking the train to the festival every day: that should probably be even more convenient than Paris. (And as for those big, beautiful prints: you can roll them into a cardboard tube and then they will survive in you luggage, no problem!)
Really good info, thanks! One my hopes with this video was to gather more info and tips here in the comment section to help those who are planning their first visit. Train is definitely something I'll look into next time. Taking a train from De Gaulle airport to Bordeaux feels also like a good idea. It'd skip the connecting flight which always takes more time than you think. Bordeaux would be close enough to Angoulême to keep the traveling times decent.
Angoulême was baffling experience. It's still hard for me to accept how much interesting stuff is available there but will never find audience outside Europe or francophone reader base. I see the reasons and understand them but like a child having a tantrum over a candy he can't get I cannot accept it. It's summer in Finland! This week is Midsummer Festival when the sun doesn't set at all - so called Nightless night. Everybody enjoys it - except vampires. I am very much a summer person and this makes me work even slower with vids though I have already many more European comics vids planned.
9th art is just a fancy way in French to refer to Bande Dessinee. The idea , I guess, is that the 1st to 8th art forms are: literature, music, cinema, etc. At some point french academics wanted to differentiate BD from literature and started to use the term "9e art" (9th art form).
Well said. I have a video on my channel about 9th Art term. I love the fact that French have fancy term for comics. It shows their attitude towards comics is quite different from Finnish for example. In Angoulême I wasn't always sure beforehand what each place was although they did have everything mapped. I hope I get to return there one day.
Weird. I can see announcement that Solarbeau left a comment about how to handle traveling from Bordeaux to Angoulême but for some reason it's not here when I open the video page. I would love to hear these ideas from anyone familiar about the subject. They could be helpful for anyone planning their own trip.
In creator studio, check the tab that says 'held for review'. Sometimes a dot without space after it is read as a link and they are blocked until you approve them as a comment to appear
That'll lead to such hard existential questions like:"Why can't I afford all this?" which is followed by:"Never mind that. I'll get them anyway but how am I going to get all this shipped home?"😅
Great Views and Channel Mate, thank you for giving us English speakers access to some of the greatest comics/culture movement in the world! Much Love from Australia - any web shop you recommend for ordering books online?
Thanks! It's always amazing hearing from fans of Bande Dessinée even from another side of the globe even though these comics are way too hard to find. As for web shops I couldn't say what would work the best for Australia. If you're OK to read French language comics using Google Lens then maybe check what is available from Canada? They have big enough French speaking population to have good selection of comics available too. I don't know how shipping works to Australia and I only got this idea as you and them float in the same sea.
@@analogcomics Yes, exactly - The Canadian comic book stores stock BD, haven't placed any orders yet, been buying mainstream DC, Image and Marvel titles - biggest hurdle remains the 2x shipping; Example book costs 20Euros + 40 Euros Shipping :D // on a side note I do find titles on Ebay; Keep Well, thanks for the reply.
I am curious if it's worth making a trip to Angouleme when there is no festival. There is the comic book museum and the comic book shops. I spent a few days in Brussels by myself after a business trip. I mapped out all the comic book murals in town and walked around to find them, which also ended up with comic book shops. I was in heaven, but as an English speaker a bit disappointed in what was available for English speakers. BTW, I bought French language LA TOUR to read with Google lens at your suggestion. I noticed in one panel there was a BLAKE AND MORTIMER mural on a wall in the destroyed part of the city. This is ironic because the BLAKE mural in Brussels was moved I believe because that part of town is more Muslim and the depiction of people was not received well. The ASTERIX mural in Brussels was behind a locked metal gate at an inaccessible playground. Brussels is beautiful anyway, so the informal walking around ended up being enjoyable.
While the comic book museum has very impressive exhibition I personally wouldn't travel there just for that. Finland is just too far. If I lived within reasonable train connection then yes. I didn't have time to get to know the city itself that well to comment about it but I do feel the murals etc are more like a good bonus during the festival than the main reason to travel. Having said that those really old cities always look exotic and romantic to us Finns as we have nothing like it. Everything is in French. I didn't see any other language comics even during the Festival. This fact had an effect on the comics I bought from there. I checked that they look like easy to translate with Google Lens as it doesn't understand some cluttered hand written lettering. I noticed that mural in La Tour:) I was thinking if that street was an accurate depiction of Bryssels.
@@analogcomics - I live outside of Washington, DC. I would make the trip if I could mix it with some time in Bordeaux (never been) and I knew I would not be barred from anything due to crowds or waiting in lines. So, I might bookend with two days on each side of the Angouleme festival. I noticed the largest comic book festival in Europe is in Lucca, Italy and includes games. I wonder if it is in Italy if there might be more English language books available? I'm not sure if my wife would have fun if I am distracted with bookshelves - maybe petty revenge from when she takes me to the Mall? I went on a buying spree inspired a great deal by your videos as your taste align with my love of BD. I have not even made a dent in my collection. I have some WAKE, FOREVER WAR and other NBM stuff as well as Humanoids to get through.
@@OgamiItto432 Bordeaux is definitely something I'll look into next time I visit Angoulême Festival. It's close and I've been told train connection is good. At Festival doors open at 10am and close at 6pm(Don't remember if some days were shorter). If you stay there 3-4 days I don't think you'd have start from Bordeaux too early. Arriving at Angoulême at noon would still leave six hours which should be enough for a more relaxed experience. You'd have time to eat, take a break, loot at the city etc. If you get PRESS-tickets then you'd have separate door(same as creators and exhibitors) to exhibitions. Also there's a separate tent where you only get in with PRESS tickets. it's a publisher tent. That'd be a good place for interviews etc. I haven't been to Lucca. I cannot comment about the language mix there. Lucca has more visitors but it's not purely a comic book festival. These type of details are used between different comics happenings when they compare each other. I just attended the first Comic Con Finland and they had very little comics compared to games, movies etc. But Lucca seems so big there's bound to be a lot of comics. Good picks from NBM! Forever War is really smart scifi. The sequel they did - Forever Free - was a big disappoinment though. For me this year has been mostly about European comics.
One practical problem that occurred was the weight of the books I bought(French love hardcovers). I had a backpack was which filled just after three booths. They do hand out free bags from booths too but they weigh a lot after some hours. I didn't have time to go back down the hill to my car and leave bags there. Having a hotel room close by would have been a solution for a drop off. But not sure how easy it is to find a hotel from walking distance during the Festival. Luckily my wife was only happy to stay aside guarding bags while I rummaged booths. Next time I go I'll make sure I have more days, scout the comics I want first and do the purchase at the last minute before leaving for car/hotel/train. For the trip be sure to have a disposable wallet with you. You have no use for it after the Festival.😄
My plan is to visit next year and stay in Bordeaux (a lovely city). We visited Bordeaux last month and did a day trip to Angoulême to visit the comic museum - it is quite easy to get there by train.
This is good info for everybody🤘Thanks for sharing. My wife and me thought about Bordeaux too if we get a chance for a longer visit. If Bordeaux-Angoulême connection works well by train then it makes sense to get from Paris airport to Bordeaux by train too. There was connecting flight from Paris available too but my wife hates flying so it wasn't an option. We fly as little as possible.
@@OgamiItto432 Yes that might get tiresome - I was thinking of going for one day only though - it sounds too much other wise. Besides - I will need 'shopping in Bordeaux' to get my wife to agree to come along 😀
Could someone share the official website of the festival? I saw he flashed it up for a second but I couldn’t see the URL and when I search I get all sorts of websites that aren’t the official one. Thanks!
I added link to Festival website to the description of this video. Now that you mentioned it I realized I had the same problem when first searching for more info. This was a very valuable addition.
Check which comics books received awards at Angoulême at the end of this video. Due to my original plan of not documenting my visit this one is quite a patchwork. And in case you wonder: Yes there are many pictures of comics here too:)
Thanks for the video - your enthusiasm and passion for comics really shines through.
Here's the tip I got from more experienced Angouleme goers on how to arrange your schedule:
-Thursday: visit the vendor tents
-Friday: visit the exhibitions
-Saturday: avoid the above-mentioned and visit cafés and bars to meet with friends
-Sunday: get an early train out
France has high speed trains, so you can reach Angouleme also from Paris in a couple of hours - and for the festival, you can even take a train directly from Charles-de-Gaulle airport to Angouleme without having to go through Paris at all.
One possibility that I haven't tried but have thought about recently is flying to and staying in Bordeaux and taking the train to the festival every day: that should probably be even more convenient than Paris.
(And as for those big, beautiful prints: you can roll them into a cardboard tube and then they will survive in you luggage, no problem!)
Really good info, thanks! One my hopes with this video was to gather more info and tips here in the comment section to help those who are planning their first visit.
Train is definitely something I'll look into next time. Taking a train from De Gaulle airport to Bordeaux feels also like a good idea. It'd skip the connecting flight which always takes more time than you think. Bordeaux would be close enough to Angoulême to keep the traveling times decent.
Finally got to settle in and watch this. Talk about comic book dreams!
Great work sir, and I'd love to see more of you out and about!
Angoulême was baffling experience. It's still hard for me to accept how much interesting stuff is available there but will never find audience outside Europe or francophone reader base. I see the reasons and understand them but like a child having a tantrum over a candy he can't get I cannot accept it.
It's summer in Finland! This week is Midsummer Festival when the sun doesn't set at all - so called Nightless night. Everybody enjoys it - except vampires. I am very much a summer person and this makes me work even slower with vids though I have already many more European comics vids planned.
Thanks for the video and the useful info 😉
Thank you for this informative video.
9th art is just a fancy way in French to refer to Bande Dessinee. The idea , I guess, is that the 1st to 8th art forms are: literature, music, cinema, etc. At some point french academics wanted to differentiate BD from literature and started to use the term "9e art" (9th art form).
Well said. I have a video on my channel about 9th Art term. I love the fact that French have fancy term for comics. It shows their attitude towards comics is quite different from Finnish for example.
In Angoulême I wasn't always sure beforehand what each place was although they did have everything mapped. I hope I get to return there one day.
Weird. I can see announcement that Solarbeau left a comment about how to handle traveling from Bordeaux to Angoulême but for some reason it's not here when I open the video page. I would love to hear these ideas from anyone familiar about the subject. They could be helpful for anyone planning their own trip.
In creator studio, check the tab that says 'held for review'. Sometimes a dot without space after it is read as a link and they are blocked until you approve them as a comment to appear
Damn those covers really make you want to look inside
That'll lead to such hard existential questions like:"Why can't I afford all this?" which is followed by:"Never mind that. I'll get them anyway but how am I going to get all this shipped home?"😅
Great Views and Channel Mate, thank you for giving us English speakers access to some of the greatest comics/culture movement in the world! Much Love from Australia - any web shop you recommend for ordering books online?
Thanks! It's always amazing hearing from fans of Bande Dessinée even from another side of the globe even though these comics are way too hard to find. As for web shops I couldn't say what would work the best for Australia. If you're OK to read French language comics using Google Lens then maybe check what is available from Canada? They have big enough French speaking population to have good selection of comics available too. I don't know how shipping works to Australia and I only got this idea as you and them float in the same sea.
@@analogcomics Yes, exactly - The Canadian comic book stores stock BD, haven't placed any orders yet, been buying mainstream DC, Image and Marvel titles - biggest hurdle remains the 2x shipping; Example book costs 20Euros + 40 Euros Shipping :D // on a side note I do find titles on Ebay; Keep Well, thanks for the reply.
I am curious if it's worth making a trip to Angouleme when there is no festival. There is the comic book museum and the comic book shops. I spent a few days in Brussels by myself after a business trip. I mapped out all the comic book murals in town and walked around to find them, which also ended up with comic book shops. I was in heaven, but as an English speaker a bit disappointed in what was available for English speakers. BTW, I bought French language LA TOUR to read with Google lens at your suggestion. I noticed in one panel there was a BLAKE AND MORTIMER mural on a wall in the destroyed part of the city. This is ironic because the BLAKE mural in Brussels was moved I believe because that part of town is more Muslim and the depiction of people was not received well. The ASTERIX mural in Brussels was behind a locked metal gate at an inaccessible playground. Brussels is beautiful anyway, so the informal walking around ended up being enjoyable.
While the comic book museum has very impressive exhibition I personally wouldn't travel there just for that. Finland is just too far. If I lived within reasonable train connection then yes. I didn't have time to get to know the city itself that well to comment about it but I do feel the murals etc are more like a good bonus during the festival than the main reason to travel. Having said that those really old cities always look exotic and romantic to us Finns as we have nothing like it.
Everything is in French. I didn't see any other language comics even during the Festival. This fact had an effect on the comics I bought from there. I checked that they look like easy to translate with Google Lens as it doesn't understand some cluttered hand written lettering.
I noticed that mural in La Tour:) I was thinking if that street was an accurate depiction of Bryssels.
@@analogcomics - I live outside of Washington, DC. I would make the trip if I could mix it with some time in Bordeaux (never been) and I knew I would not be barred from anything due to crowds or waiting in lines. So, I might bookend with two days on each side of the Angouleme festival. I noticed the largest comic book festival in Europe is in Lucca, Italy and includes games. I wonder if it is in Italy if there might be more English language books available? I'm not sure if my wife would have fun if I am distracted with bookshelves - maybe petty revenge from when she takes me to the Mall? I went on a buying spree inspired a great deal by your videos as your taste align with my love of BD. I have not even made a dent in my collection. I have some WAKE, FOREVER WAR and other NBM stuff as well as Humanoids to get through.
@@OgamiItto432 Bordeaux is definitely something I'll look into next time I visit Angoulême Festival. It's close and I've been told train connection is good. At Festival doors open at 10am and close at 6pm(Don't remember if some days were shorter). If you stay there 3-4 days I don't think you'd have start from Bordeaux too early. Arriving at Angoulême at noon would still leave six hours which should be enough for a more relaxed experience. You'd have time to eat, take a break, loot at the city etc. If you get PRESS-tickets then you'd have separate door(same as creators and exhibitors) to exhibitions. Also there's a separate tent where you only get in with PRESS tickets. it's a publisher tent. That'd be a good place for interviews etc.
I haven't been to Lucca. I cannot comment about the language mix there. Lucca has more visitors but it's not purely a comic book festival. These type of details are used between different comics happenings when they compare each other. I just attended the first Comic Con Finland and they had very little comics compared to games, movies etc. But Lucca seems so big there's bound to be a lot of comics.
Good picks from NBM! Forever War is really smart scifi. The sequel they did - Forever Free - was a big disappoinment though. For me this year has been mostly about European comics.
Yes, Angôuleme a comics overdose. Be prepared when you get there. I’m planning to go there next year, hopefully but I fear my finances 😄…
One practical problem that occurred was the weight of the books I bought(French love hardcovers). I had a backpack was which filled just after three booths. They do hand out free bags from booths too but they weigh a lot after some hours.
I didn't have time to go back down the hill to my car and leave bags there. Having a hotel room close by would have been a solution for a drop off. But not sure how easy it is to find a hotel from walking distance during the Festival.
Luckily my wife was only happy to stay aside guarding bags while I rummaged booths.
Next time I go I'll make sure I have more days, scout the comics I want first and do the purchase at the last minute before leaving for car/hotel/train.
For the trip be sure to have a disposable wallet with you. You have no use for it after the Festival.😄
My plan is to visit next year and stay in Bordeaux (a lovely city). We visited Bordeaux last month and did a day trip to Angoulême to visit the comic museum - it is quite easy to get there by train.
This is good info for everybody🤘Thanks for sharing.
My wife and me thought about Bordeaux too if we get a chance for a longer visit. If Bordeaux-Angoulême connection works well by train then it makes sense to get from Paris airport to Bordeaux by train too. There was connecting flight from Paris available too but my wife hates flying so it wasn't an option. We fly as little as possible.
@@analogcomics Yeh - we try to avoid flying too. Luckily we live in the middle of Europe - so we can get almost everywhere by train.
Google shows Bordeaux is about an hour away from Angouleme - for a daily festival, you would have to leave quite early, no?
@@OgamiItto432 Yes that might get tiresome - I was thinking of going for one day only though - it sounds too much other wise. Besides - I will need 'shopping in Bordeaux' to get my wife to agree to come along 😀
Hello from Tours
Do you live there or did you arrive early for the next Angoulême Festival?😄Beautiful place!
@@analogcomics I live not far from Tours
Could someone share the official website of the festival? I saw he flashed it up for a second but I couldn’t see the URL and when I search I get all sorts of websites that aren’t the official one. Thanks!
I added link to Festival website to the description of this video.
Now that you mentioned it I realized I had the same problem when first searching for more info. This was a very valuable addition.