Comic book festival in France

Comic book festival in France

ANGOULEME, France - Visitors on Jan. 30, 2014, look at cartoons in a special exhibition by the South Korean government on wartime sex slavery, at an international comic book festival that began the same day in Angouleme, southwestern France.

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