The Comics Bureau

Paul Gravett writes an art­icle on Angouleme 2010. I really want to get to this. Really badly.

It’s that time of year again when people start mak­ing their ‘Best of the Year’ lists. When it comes to com­ics, I’ll be doing mine quite soon, as well as tip­ping you off on the Most Anti­cip­ated Graphic Nov­els to come out through 2010. Also, as before, I’ll be sound­ing out inter­na­tional con­nois­seurs for their favour­ites. Mean­while, over in France on Fri­day 4 Decem­ber, the 37th Angoulême Inter­na­tional Com­ics Fest­ival announced at its Press Con­fer­ence their three offi­cial selec­tions of the 86 best bande dess­inée books out of nearly 5,000 pub­lished in France in 2009. Can you ima­gine hav­ing this much choice, this huge an annual production?