In Valenciennes, for the 16e Salon de la BD!

Just back from another comics festival, the 16th Salon de la BD in Valenciennes, close to the Belgian border. Valenciennes is in Hauts de France, so it was reachable by train for us. After our Tuscany experience, I don’t intend to fly ever again (I have said this at least once before…) Bryan’s Grandville series is being published by Délirium, a very nice and rather niche French publisher that specialises in British and American comics in translation. He was kept busy signing on Saturday and Sunday. There were copies of Louise Michel, la Vierge Rouge to sign too, which was good. We were grouped with some Spanish artists, including Carlos Puerta: and Gabor, who had just been awarded a prize by the festival when I took this photo: We also encountered Ivo Milazzo, an Italian artist Bryan once spent time with in Lucca (who knows how many years ago?): And in the evenings, we spent some time with people from the magazine Fluide Glacial, especially Arthur Borsei, a.k.a l’Abbé: For our third and last evening, after the festival, we were in Lille, where we met up with Lucie Benagrouba, a Lilloise friend. Unfortunately I forgot the camera, so no jolly dinner-table photo to finish. Here are some books instead: