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From Our Continental Correspondent – Summer Of The 80s

Fri, May 29, 2009

Comics and cartoons, Film, TV and radio, From our Continental Correspondent

I am a child of the eighties. It’s taken me a while to come to terms with it, but I am. Nearly everything I learned in life, I learned between roughly 1981 and 1989. And it would seem I am not the only early forty-something who’s looking back with melancholy, as Arte, the pan-European arts broadcaster, is preparing to colour your summer with the Summer Of The Eighties, two months of specials, documentaries and classic TV from that age that wasn’t even gilded, let alone golden.

On June 19th, a special collection of comics to go with this series will be published by Arte Editions and Dargaud. Seventeen cartoonists have been invited to present their view of the eighties, with luminaries like Jean-Claude Denis, Emile Bravo (whose My Mummy was just published in English), Philippe Paringaux, and many others, and all that will be collected with a cover by none other than Serge Clerc (see above).

At the famed Galerie 9ème Art (4 Rue Crétet, Paris), a selection of original pages from the book will be on display from June 11th through to June 17th. (With thanks to Klare Lijn International)