Angoulême International Comics Festival
angoulême international comic festival french festival international de la bande dessinée dangoulême second largest comic festival europe lucca comic game italy third biggest world lucca comic game comiket japan occurred every year since angoulême france last week end january angoulême international comic festival founded french writer editor francis groux jean mardikian comic writer scholar claude moliterni moliterni served coorganizer festival visitor attend fair every year including professional including approximately author journalist attendance generally difficult estimate festival take place town divided many different area connected directly fourday festival notable awarding several prestigious prize cartooning award angoulême originally called alfred award pet auk zig et puce alain saintogan name changed alphart award honoring final unfinished tintin album hergé alphart name dropped simply called official award international comic festival le palmarès officiel du festival international de la bande dessinée lewis trondheim grand prix winner created mascot festival le fauve wildcat since prize winner received wildcat statuette best album statuette coated gold since year award called fauve best album fauve dor prize reorganized create pool album called official selection awarded best album prize five angoulême essential one revelation essential given rookie creator one essential chosen public heritage essential reprinted material youth essential selected separate nominee pool additionally grand prix de la ville dangoulême awarded year living creator honoring lifetime achievement grand prix winner becomes president next year festival traditionally president head prize jury next year festival illustrates festival poster given exhibition work four woman awarded prize french author florence cestac japanese mangaka rumiko takahashi canadian julie doucet british cartoonist posy simmonds prize school comic prize young talent prix jeunes talent prize young talent aquitaine region strip prize prize student poitoucharentes secondary school prize student angoulême primary school prize alternative comic fanzines hippocampus prize creator disability prize created margin festival known award prix tournesol shlingo award prix couillesaucul literally translated ball buttock award deriving french slang expression bravery celebrates encourages artistic freedom artist whose activism repressed home country grand prize prize best albumgolden wildcat special prize jury prize artwork prize first comic book prize series prize inheritance prix jeunesse an youth prize – year prix jeunesse an youth prize – year fanzine prize revelation prize best promotional comic rené goscinny award european comic official website award french france take comic seriously bbc news retrieved actuabd french