Plan to ‘raise a smile’ by announcing hoax list of honours at Angoulême festival fails to amuse humiliated authors who thought they had wonAlready under fire for its all-male shortlist,the Angoulême comics festival drew further ire this weekend when it named a list of fake winners for its prestigious prizes, before revealing to a stunned audience that they had not won.
Compere Richard Gaitet first told attendees at one of the world’s biggest comics events that the evening would be “the shortest ceremony in history, and because everyone wants to drink and dance”,local paper Charente Libre reported. He then proceeded to name a series of winners, including Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples’s Saga, or to applause and celebrations – only for his speech to be interrupted by two women,who told him: Richard, we really possess to start now.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com