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From Our Continental Correspondent – BoDoï moves to online

Sat, Nov 29, 2008

Comics and cartoons, From our Continental Correspondent

Ever since Bruno Bonnell announced in September that BoDoï, one of the best and most authoritative information magazines on all things BD, would cease print publication in favour of going strictly on-line, the magazine’s site has changed from a sales tool into one of the best French comics news sites. Before, the only items you could find here, were listings of new comics and when they were supposed to arrive in the stores, and the contents of new issues of Bo Doï. These days, every day brings new scoops, reviews, interviews and reporting. Here’s a quick round-up of recent items of interest you may have missed (the links are in French, so brush up your je ne sais quoi before you dive in) :

An interview with Achdé , the new artist for the popular series Lucky Luke, on his take on Lucky Luke creator Morris’s legacy;

An interview with Ella, Claude, Frédé, Juan et Fern , better known as Les Chicou-Chicou, and probably even better known as Boulet, Aude Picault, Domitille Collardey, Lisa Mandel et Erwan Surcouf, five of France’s best cartoonists who have banded together to create a new, collective comic;

News on David B publishing his Italian sketchbooks in the Shampooing collection, which would reunite him with fellow Association founder Lewis Trondheim, who is creative director of that collection;

A report from the Montreuil Children’s book fair, which focused on scary literature for children, and on the question what children really are afraid of;

News on the Hergé Museum , which is set to open in May,

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(pensée coupable – which I think roughly translates as ‘guilty thoughts’ – by and (c) Nicolas Poupon)

quite funny cartoons by Nicolas Poupon (which were published in the magazine before);

A long interview with Clément Oubrerie et Marguerite Abouet on their very succesful African saga, Aya;

An interview with the Lebanese cartoonist Zeina Abirached , who’s quite fed up with being compared to Marjane Satrapi;

and more…

The paper version of Bo Doï will return at least once, to coincide with the Angoulème Festival in January, 2009.

Wim Lockefeer lives in Belgium where he has been discoursing on comics culture online for years (BoDoï take note, he is available for articles and children’s parties); you can read more of his work on his own Ephemerist blog.