The first snow

We had our first snow on November 26th. In total, we had 5 days of snow, all of which were in November or December. The temperature does not go down very low here but with the humidex, you can easily be chilled to the bone.
This is a picture of the snow just outside our bedroom window.

Angoulême - Festival de la BD - 38th edition

Every year, this small and quiet town hosts the "Festival de la Bande-Dessinée". Many well-known authors who have recently published a comic book attend the festival to promote it and to meet their fans.
Ever since I have been with Martin, I have gotten to know the art a lot better. Martin has a pretty good collection of books from different authors such as Matthieu Lauffray, Arleston, Franquin, Schwartz, Kirkman, and, one of my favorites, Manu Larcenet (who, according to Martin, looks like Max).
He has more or less contaminated me with one of his passions but I don't quite appreciate books like "Walking Dead" or "Lanfeust de Troye", for example. Too "zombie-ish" or just plain disgusting for me.
The festival is spread out across the city and you can easily walk from expo to expo or from stand to stand. There are even debates, conferences, and plays that you can attend. It lasts four days (from Thursday to Sunday) and it is a really fun time.

This year, we were lucky enough to live an 1h30-drive away so we took advantage of the opportunity to go meet some of the authors who have provided us with some great reading material.

Angoulême - Festival de la BD

Angoulême - Festival de la BD

Here is Martin reading up on his parents. Oh la blague!
Actually, this is a book with a cheeky spin on palentology. Martin likes the kind of comic book that suggests another version of history like in Bloc 109, for example, i.e. Nazi-Germany wins the Second World War.
This book, however, is a lot less dark. The narrator is given a very authoritative voice and tells us quite plainly that he is a palentologist and shows us his PhD as proof. He then goes off to say that paleontologists of the past have made some enormous and unforgivable errors in the way they assembled the dinosaur bones they found. He then shows us a picture of the ensemble of triceratops bones and rearranges them in another drawing to show us the right way they should have been assembled. The result is a ridiculous animal with an impossible morphology.

Angoulême - Festival de la BD

Angoulême - Festival de la BD