Podcasts on the Eve of Angouleme
I’ve been collecting some specific podcast episodes to link to here on the site in recent weeks. The latest two have specific Angouleme talk in them, so this is a very good time to share them, as FIBD starts tomorrow.
The Make It Then Tell Everyone podcast hosted Charlie Adlard this week. The discussion starts at the ending of “The Walking Dead” and quickly moves to the glory of the festival in Angouleme. Adlard is fun to listen to. He doesn’t need the American Direct Market anymore. His career is not reliant on it, so he doesn’t have to kowtow to it. He’s free to voice his opinions, which I suspect is something a great many North American professionals don’t do for fear of being blackballed, or otherwise thought of as “difficult” or “not professional” or “troublesome.”
“The Awesome Comics Podcast” once more welcomes back Irina Polianina from Europe Comics to discuss the latest and greatest coming out of Europe Comics, and what’s happening at Angouleme. She has some great recommendations along the way, including one or two books I want to go back to for a second look now. They’re books I had skipped over, but am more interested in now with the proper sales pitch.
The BBC series, “The Boring Podcast,” shares their love for Asterix Puns in a show from December 2018. I just found it recently. It’s short, but fun.
The “Coffee Break” podcast series featured an episode on The Ninth Art, or “Le Nouvieme Art”. This is a podcast series devoted to teaching French, though it’s for more advanced listeners, and it opens with multiple minutes of talk all in French before the English discussion starts. But it’s fun to hear French being rattled off with the occasional “Herge” or “Schtroumpfs” reference in it that you might recognize.
If you’re fluent in French, then you can hit up the French comics podcasting scene. Start with the 9emeArt.fr Angouleme 2019 podcast series and relive all the events of last year.
Check out this week’s Pipeline Podcast for links to the Twitter accounts I’ll be following this weekend as the Festival unfolds.
