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BD Angouleme.com The Angoulême International Comics Festival ( French : Festival international de la bande dessinée d'Angoulême ) is the second largest comics festival in Europe after the Lucca Comics & Games in Italy, and the third biggest in the world after Lucca Comics & Games and the Comiket of Japan.
The Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême is a lifetime achievement award given annually during the Angoulême International Comics Festival to a comics author. Although not a monetary award, it is considered the most prestigious award in Franco-Belgian comics .
The Cité internationale de la Bande Dessinée et de l'Image [115] includes an exhibition space and cinema in a converted brewery down by the river. A new museum dedicated to the motion picture opened in 2007 at the newly restored chais on opposite side of the river at Saint Cybard.
2000: Oecumenic jury award: La terre sans mal by Emmanuel Lepage and Anne Sibran, Dupuis; 2000: Christian comic award: La Bible by Jeff Anderson and Mike Maddox, Pre-au Clerc; 2001: Oecumenic jury award: Le Journal de mon père part 3 by Jiro Taniguchi, Casterman
A major project in the making, involving the renovation of several ancient buildings and the designing of a new one spread over the grounds of the town's former brewery by renowned architect Roland Castro, the museum, Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image , [74] only opened its doors in June 2009 (though two smaller sub ...
The series has received recognition through a number of prestigious awards, including the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême. An animated television series, Time Jam: Valerian & Laureline, was released in 2007, and a feature film directed by Luc Besson, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, was released in 2017.
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This period saw an increased interest in Quebec of local comics, and a number of events were first held: the Salon international de la caricature de Montréal added a comic strip section to their annual exhibit in 1971; Festival de la bande dessinée de Montréal ("Festival of Comics of Montreal") was held for four years starting in 1975 at the ...