Last week, I discussed The Racine Report.

This week, I talk about the proposals made by France's Minister of Culture in light of the recommendations in that report.

You can read a more detailed write-up of the proposals at PipelineComics.com

Learning French: I'm trying out DuoLingo for learning French. Let's be friends!

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Get your copy of The Racine Report here:

https://www.culture.gouv.fr/Espace-documentation/Rapports/L-auteur-et-l-acte-de-creation

Read my complete write-up on the situation:

https://PipelineComics.com/the-racine-report

Thread: League of Professional Authors President Samantha Bailly talks about why it's important to remunerate the act of creation:

https://twitter.com/Samanthabailly/status/1228365335826444289

Be my friend on DuoLingo in the French track. I'm AugieDB there.

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I'm a bit magazine happy these days. I've discovered the fun of looking at old French and Belgian magazines to see where all these great comics like Spirou, Asterix, and Lucky Luke came from.

Consider this a teaser for the articles to come to PipelineComics.com in the weeks and months ahead.

Previously, in Pipeline:

• "What is Pilote? A Tour Through the Home of Asterix, Valerian, and Lucky Luke"
• My Pilote ASMR video
• French Book Reading Statistics
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May 68: The Second French Revolution?

Be my friend on DuoLingo in the French track. I'm AugieDB there.

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This is the first in an occasional series of "Pipeline and Sundry" episodes, in which I'll discuss a variety of topics: little newsbits, updates and follow-ups from previous podcasts, etc. These are the things that aren't big enough for their own show, but which I can throw together once every couple of months or so to catch up on.

Rene Goscinny gets a new statue, this time in Paris.

I have an early look at Papercutz's Asterix translation. I go full Kremlinology on this one.

Some exciting new books are coming out, or already came out, in 2020:

• "Undertaker" v5
• "Orbital" v8 (My previous "Orbital" reviews)
• Oscar Martin's "Solo"
• Manu Larcenet's "Group Therapy"
• "Back to Basics" v6 (My previous "Back to Basics" reviews)
• "Les Soeurs Gremillet", featuring art by Alessandro Barbucci

An update on my Uncle Scrooge Collection Conundrum

France declares 2020 the Year of the BD.

January 30th is Read a BD Day!

My Twitter "French" list

My Twitter "BD Publisher" list

PanelxPanel books (Coming Soon...)

Strip Panel Naked talks about Morris' use of color in "Lucky Luke"

I'm trying out DuoLingo for learning French

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Angouleme is right around the corner, and we now know the three names who are the finalists for this year's Grand Prix award. In this week's podcast, I'll be discussing them.

Lambiek biographies of the nominees:

• Chris Ware
• Emmanuel Guibert
• Catherine Meurisse

Since recording this episode a few days ago, I've learned more about the two French nominees, and now I'm definitely rooting for Catherine Meurisse. The Comics Journal write-up on her is amazing, and I want to read a couple of her books right away now.

What I forgot about is that Guibert and Ware were the two runners-up last year. There's every possible chance they may repeat that this year. Ouch.

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This is the true story of the time that Andre Franquin's company, Marsu Production, sold the rights to Marsupilami to Disney, then had to sue to get their money's worth. Disney's own paperwork sunk the company's case in front of the court.

Read the whole article at PipelineComics.com/marsupilami

Listen to "Ice Ice Mickey" on YouTube

See the original "The Little Mermaid" trailer

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I reviewed more than 50 albums this year, but read many more. And now it's time to boil that down to the list of the 10 albums I liked the most. It's an insane list

I'll throw in the 11th that just missed, too, because it's the one book I had to talk myself out of putting in to make a Top 11 list. Decisions must be made, after all.

Oh, and #12 gets thrown in Just Because.

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Coming at you from the Pipeline World HQ Basement once again (thus, the sound quality), it's the Pipeline Comics podcast!

I'm not a resolutions guy. I believe if you want to do something, you should do it. It doesn't matter what day of the year it is. And the plan can be longer or shorter than a year. Resolutions are too easy to ignore and not do when they're this arbitrary, for most people.

But I love listening to the year end podcasts where people review their resolutions and predictions from the beginning of the year to see how much has come true. I am a study in contrasts, so I'm resolving to do some stuff for Pipeline Comics this year. And I'm creating this podcast to keep me accountable at the end of the year.

I also reserve the right to throw all these resolutions out if I have a better idea at any time. So there!

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For the past few years, it has been a tradition in my family: I get the latest Fantagraphics slipcase edition of the Don Rosa Library. Each year, they've put out two hardcover books, and each year they follow that up with a slipcover edition of those two books. Sitting on my shelf right now, I can see volumes 1 - 8 in four slipcases, and the recently added "The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" slipcase next to it?

What happened with volumes 9 and 10? And why is that forcing me to make an awkward decision?

That's what today's podcast is all about. What kind of comics collector/reader am I?!?

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This is a story about a recent vacation in Orlando and where I found comic books. Disney keeps them out of the theme parks and in the Disney Springs' shopping venue.

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