In conversation with Vincent Giard: A decade taking care of a little colossus
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This chapter covers the decade in which the Canadian alternative BD gravitated around the figure of Vincent Giard, with the invaluable help of a direct dialogue with the author/publisher himself. As locomotive, he moved through several tiers: Colosse, a self-federated zine label; La Mauvaise Tête, first a collective, then a traditional publishing house; la Maison de la Bande Dessinée, a workshop that becomes a focal point of the (g)local scene; Les 48 Heures de la BD, a festival; even through the organized political activism. For most people involved, starting with Giard himself, this is a finished story or at least a closed chapter. After seven years, on May 29, 2019, the publishing house La Mauvaise Tête closed down. For a time, it ran in parallel with Colosse, an experiment of “nanotirages introuvables” (impossible to find nano-editions).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".