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Stan Lee Nominated For 2016 Angoulême Festival President

Published Tue, 23 Dec 2014 06:00:49 -0600

by Rich Johnston

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The list for the Angoulême Grand Prix has been published. Voted on by the Academy, the winner of the most prestigious ward in comic books is names the President of the next festival. This year it was won by Bill Watterson, after Alan Moore declined the honour.

Nevertheless, he is nominated again, as well as for the first time, Stan Lee!

Christophe Blain
Christian Binet
Charles Burns
Daniel Clowes
Nicolas de Crécy
Pierre Christin
Cosey
Étienne Davodeau
Edika
Emmanuel Guibert
Hermann
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Quino
Stan Lee
Milo Manara
Taiyo Matsumoto
Lorenzo Mattotti
Alan Moore
Katsuhiro Otomo
Marjane Satrapi
Joann Sfar
Bill Sienkiewicz
Jiro Taniguchi
Richard Corben
Jean Van Hamme
Chris Ware

Favourites are Katsuhiro Otomo, after he was in the final shortlist last year, and Quino, who has a similar profile as Watterson (popular in Europe, beloved by readers of all ages) and the additional advantages of being well-known to most authors in the festival. He is rather frail and, like Watterson, may not be able to attend Angoulême itself…

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