Angouleme

After a fracas over French ‘male-only’ prize for graphic novelists, world takes note of women artists

January 7, 2016Arts

For 43 years, graphic novelists and comics artists have gathered in the French town of Angoulême to celebrate their burgeoning art and award prizes. But in all that time, only one woman has won the Grand Prix, a “lifetime achievement” award. After this year’s list of 30 nominees contained no women at all, an uproar ensued.

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