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The day, I almost met USAGI...

Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 23:27 -0700
by TigerRider
Hi folks!

This weekend is that of the 18th "Comicfestival" of Luxemburg (in Contern). For this event the hole village transformes into a comic-town (ok, a small one :wink: ). Streets are closed, traders everywere, lots of food, playgrounds for the children and, as the most interesting point for a lot of visitors from France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, ... the central sportshall, where the artists are signing.

When I studied the pre-infos for this festival, I got curious: How can it be, that there is an artist called "USAGI" ??? Whats the mystery behind? :?:

Yesterday, I waited 2 hours in the USAGI-queue, 13 people in front of me, 25 behind me, when we all were informed, that "USAGI is ill, and will not be attending the festival".
BOYS, I was so down!

Even when I cound't ask her in personal here are some facts, I found out: USAGI is the artistname of a woman, wife of a pretty famous french comicartist, and works in the same business, as doing the colours for projects with her husband, but also others. I bought one comic they did together (Golden Cup vol. 5) and find the "colour-job" quite good.

I hope USAGI is feeling better soon, maybe she will be attending the next-year festival?

I wrote a report about the festival (text is in German) and took some pictures:
http://www.comicradioshow.com/Article3616.html

Greetings from Trier,
Jens

Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:18 -0700
by Stan Sakai
Wonderful photos, Jens. I noticed a drawing of Natasha in one of your books. Was Francois Walthery there? I really like his work.

Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 11:52 -0700
by TigerRider
Stan Sakai wrote:Wonderful photos, Jens. I noticed a drawing of Natasha in one of your books. Was Francois Walthery there? I really like his work.
Thank you, Stan. No, he wasn't there this time, maybe next year again.

Greetings,
Jens

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 1:16 -0700
by coolray85
seems to be a nice festival....did they have any usagi books, too?

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 3:03 -0700
by TigerRider
it's an about 95% franko-belgium-related festival :wink:

maybe there was some USAGI-stuff somewhere, but I have to admit, I didn't recognized any.
concerning the statuettes and action-figures everything seemed to be on the "Predator-train". Impressing (expensive) 8)

Greetings,
Jens

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 3:14 -0700
by coolray85
haha, over here in munich at the little monthly comic and record/movies sales the predator action figures and statues seem to claim the most space, too...together with a guy who sells a quatripplezyllion star wars articles...;)