The Ephemerist

This morning I opened Vacature, the job ads supplement to my newspaper, and this ad for consultancy firm CapGemini, featuring art by Ted Benoit, immediately caught my eye. I think it’s quite remarkable, since Benoit isn’t known to do that much advertising, and secondly, because the agency that produced this ad allowed him to sign his art.

It turns out that this is part of an international campaign, in which different illustrations by Benoit are used. My good friend Mike Rhode posted about this on his ComicsDC blog last year, and it’s a shame that I had to hear that from Entrecomics. Sorry, Mike.

Click on the ad to see the art in full size.  Also, check out Février & Co for all other art.

Toon and I left for Angoulême today. We were lucky : we arrived at 5 pm, and it started snowing at 5.15. Bart got stuck in the blizzard on the N10 between Poitiers and Angoulême and only got there at about midnight.

Anyway, I don’t think I’ll be doing a regular festival report (I’m sure other bloggers will get to that). One thing that struck me today is that the complete city just breathes comics. They’re everywhere, even in the local fast food joint, which features a short story by Ted Benoit in wall paintings. I didn’t take pictures of each and every wall, as that would have been too geeky.