Episode 93: Julie Doucet and Awards

The big prize of the FIBD Angouleme was awarded by Chris Ware to Julie Doucet. (You can see the video here.) What does this choice say about how the prize is chosen? Many people will construct their own narratives to explain it all, but real life ain’t that easy.

This is a tease, really, for a long-promised much bigger rant about why all awards are crap, but they’re still fun to give, receive, and talk about. One of these days…