Ok! Here's the first installment of the new memoir-style comic I'm doing called "BDVille." The first page is here, but read the rest here!

So Angoulême is pretty great so far.  Still getting comfortable (and working off jet-lag). My french still sucks, but hopefully I'll get better fast. I've met a lot of very cool and exceptionally talented artists. And I mean a LOT - there's tons of cartoonists and animators here. I'm going to start working on Power Out again tomorrow, but figure I'd post some pictures of where this all is going to happen.


La Maison des Auteurs (MDA) where I'm working. It's a pretty amazing facility, and I'm sure I'll have more photos of the interior soon. Very talented people work here.



I live above a tattoo parlor a block from the MDA. I have no idea how old the building I'm living in is, but I'd be shocked if it wasn't at least 400 years old.



Here's the staircase leading up to my apartment. It gets really dark at night, and there's lights but since it's France and they don't waste electricity, you turn on the light and then you have only like ten seconds till it's pitch black again. I'm afraid I'm going to completely eat it running down the stairs at some point.



This is the square in front of MDA. They used to impale people here in the middle ages.



this is the Hôtel de Ville, or olde city hall as Americans would call it.