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MoCCA 2017 Will Have To Wait

That’s because things that are more time-sensitive than MoCCA Fest 2017 recaps happened since last we spoke.

Okay, one tidbit from MoCCA, but mostly because it’ll make FSFCPL happy. Thanks to the good graces of :01 Books editor Mark Siegel I was very briefly introduced to the marvelous Pénélope Bagieu, who was promoting her newest book. Siegel shared :01 will be publishing an English omnibus of her two-volume collection, Les Culottées. The American edition will be titled Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked The World (available March 2018), and :01 is pretty much her American publisher going forward. Now if they can just get Boulet’s Notes series, I can die happy.


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Man, Derek’s got the best business card ever.

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¹ Whom I had never met before; we had a lovely bar-shout/chat, more discussion the next day, and will undoubtedly have more to discuss at the Alaska Robotics Comics Camp later this month.

² That reminds me: Otter, I spent some time at MoCCA talking with George O’Connor, and he’s going to be looking up Greek Key because he really liked your take on Helen. He’s also all-in on your next Hope Blackwell novel because I mentioned the magic word: chupacabra.

You bet it’s making me happy, because it confirms that it’s a good idea for me to help introducing works or creators before it’s obvious that they are of interest for English-language readers: because by the time that becomes obvious, Fleen readers are already best-informed about them. Case in point:

– A mere two weeks after Maliki was introduced here, they announce their intent, unprecedented in French-Belgian comics, to become independent of their publishers, starting with a crowdfunding drive so unprecedented in its scale that it is best thought of as the equivalent of Randall Milholland’s historic donation drive.
– Three months after we first introduced Laurel and Comme Convenu, it turns out she is looking for a translator to publish the story in English.
– And after we recently introduced Les Culottées (also, two ts, dammit), we find out it’s going to be published stateside.

Spelling fixed; my pronunciation and listening comprehension in French are pretty marginal, and my spelling is worse!

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