Via the good folks at Fantagraphics (one of our favourite comics publishers) comes news of a whole week celebrating Bandes Dessinées in Seattle. Fantagraphics is teaming up with the Alliance Française and 4Culture for a whole week of events celebrating French graphic novels, with the launch this evening in the Good Sheperd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Avenue, with Fanta’s Kim Thompson giving a presentation on twenty men and women “who, in just a generation, have taken the French comics from a children’s medium to the Oscars.” Internationally acclaimed French creator David B will be at the Fanta store in Seattle for an exhibition of his work and as if a chance to see him isn’t enough there is also talk of French wine being present. Among other events there will be a panel discussion on Sunday 17th at the Henry Art Gallery with David B., Jim Woodring and Pete Bagge, moderated by Kim Thompson, assuming they haven’t all vanished with a crate of the aforemention wine… Full details can be found on the Seattle Alliance Française site. As Tom normally puts it on Comics Reporter, “If I were in Seattle, I’d go to this…” David B has a new English-language work, Nocturnal Conspiracies: Nineteen Dreams, coming from NBM this autumn.
(Looking at this gorgeous poster for the David B exhibition I’m suddenly struck with how reminiscent it is of the work of the great Scottish writer and artist Alisdair Gray)
August 13th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
There’s a nice post about this at Shelf Talk, the Seattle library blog. We’re very excited to be hosting David B for one of his Seattle appearances.