Angoul – the metabunker https://metabunker.dk by matthias wivel & friends Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:33:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 Angoulême 2011: Art Spiegelman Grand Prix https://metabunker.dk/2012/01/24/angouleme-2011-art-spiegelman-grand-prix/ Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:33:24 +0000 http://metabunker.dk/?p=4030
It has just been announced that Art Spiegelman is the recipient of this year’s Grand Prix at the Festival Internationale de la Bande Dessinée in Angoulême. Selected by the festival’s academy, which is composed of former recipients, he joins Will Eisner and R. Crumb as the third American (and fifth non-francophone) to be bestowed this, the highest European honor that can be accorded a comics artist. Spiegelman has long been an obvious choice, but it has still taken the notoriously francocentric academy long to recognize him. The author of the seminal graphic novel Maus, surely as influential in Europe as in America, will act as next year’s president.

Originally published at TCJ.com on 30 January 2011.

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