Expert’s angle on Angoulême

The journalist Paul Gravett, a leading expert on comics and graphic novels, has a report on the Angoulême International Comics Festival, which is now in its 36th year, in the Books section of The Guardian.

Angoulême, a city in the Charente region of southwest France, is synonymous with comics, says Gravett, like Glyndebourne for opera or Hay-on-Wye for books.

You need to scroll down the page to read the Guardian piece, or you can read a longer, illustrated version, at Paul Gravett’s website.