Bryan collects an award at Festival Hypermondes!

We’ve been on the train to France again! This time we were guests at a warm and welcoming science fiction festival in Mérignac, near Bordeaux. Bryan’s five-volume Grandville series had been selected for the Prix ActuSF Graphique, so he was there to receive it and, of course, to continue promoting his recently published Carnets de Stamford Hawksmoor.There was a reception at Mérignac town hall in the evening for all the people invited to the Festival Hypermondes #5. These guests included Jean-Pierre Dionnet, founder of the legendary magazine Métal hurlant, and the co-creators of the Cités obscures cycle, Benoît Peeters and François Schuiten. Benoît is a scholar who has written extensively on Hergé, among others. He was my predecessor as Visiting Professor of Graphic Narrative at Lancaster University.