Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/01/26
By Tzeng Yi-shiuan and Kuan-lin Liu 

Paris, Jan. 25 (CNA) Taiwan’s Liu Chien-fan (劉倩帆) won second place in the digital comics category Thursday at the ongoing 45th Angoulême International Comics Festival in France.

The festival, which opened on Thursday and attracts more than 200,000 visitors each year, awards several prestigious industry prizes, for which six Taiwanese nationals were nominated this year.

Liu, who was nominated in the same category as fellow compatriots Linx (次叔), Eli Lin (林倩羽) and Asta Wu (吳雅怡), was awarded for her work “Plongée” (which translates as “diving” in English) about a day in the life of a deaf girl who is waiting to get a hearing aid.

It was the first time that Liu had submitted her work, which incorporates flash animation and gif files, to the festival, so she was surprised to find out she had been awarded, she told CNA.    [FULL  STORY]