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From our continental correspondent – Angoulême update
A couple of days ago we reported, admittedly rather belatedly, that the Angoulême Festival organisers had run into a bit of trouble in financing the next edition of the festival. A dispute with the local government on who should pay for the construction of the festival tents lead to a huge gap in the organisation’s [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Behind the scenes with BoDoï
Thursday, November 12, 2009
For a while now, French comics news blog BoDoï has been catering to the curious George in every one of us by publishing pictures from the workplaces of several cartoonists, without telling who they belong to. The 18th Atelier Mystère was published last week (see below), but you can still have a look at the [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Blake and Mortimer ride again, but it wasn’t easy
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
If you believe the press in France and in the French part of Belgium, the arrival of the new Blake And Mortimer (scheduled for publication in French on November 20th) will be met with a level of hysterics unseen since the release of the latest Astérix book (and which it undoubtedly will fail to reach [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Angoulème in dire financial straits
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
According to reports by the French Sud-Ouest newspaper and the RTL news, the 2010 edition of the world-renowned comics festival of Angoulême (scheduled for January 28th to 31st) may not take place after all. The news has been confirmed to comics blog BoDoï’s Benjamin Roure by the festival’s organisers. The problem seems to be the construction [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Shaun Tan’s European Tour
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Celebrated Australian illustrator and cartoonist Shaun tan (The Arrival, Tales From Outer Suburbia) is currently touring Europe (or at least part of it) with an exhibition of a selection of his illustrative work and comics. The exhibition debuted on October 11th in the Burg Wissem Bilderbuchmuseum (or Picture Book Museum) in Troisdorf, Germany, and features [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Jef Nys 1927 to 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Jef Nys, the creator of Flemish comic hero Jommeke and one of the most succesful cartoonists in Flemish history, passed away earlier this week. He was born in Antwerp in 1927, and originally wanted to become an engineer. When he was 16 he started attending art classes in the Royal Academy in Antwerp and turned [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Ovni gets animated
Thursday, October 15, 2009
DoublePlusBon notifies us that the cartoon series that French animation studio Blue Spirit was producing for Canal+ is currently being aired. Ovni (a French acronym, roughly the equivalent of the English UFO) is based on the comic book of the same name, written by Lewis Trondheim, with art by Fabrice Parme. It was their third [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Uderzo announces new Asterix album
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Amidst a lot of media buzz, Albert Uderzo, creator of the popular French comics hero Astérix, last week announced the publication of The Anniversary Of Asterix And Obelix, the new Asterix comic, which is planned for October 22nd (in numerous countries) on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Astérix’s first appearance in Pilote magazine. [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Sexties in Brussels – the other meaning of “adult”
Monday, October 12, 2009
With Brussels ‘09, the year-long comics festival in the Belgian capital, slowly but surely coming to a close, the final big exhibition opened last weekend in the Bozar, the Arts and performance palace in the heart of the city. Whereas the previous eye-catcher had been held in the chambers of the Musée Royal des [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Blexbolex is coming to the UK
Monday, October 5, 2009
Good new for all fans of books that combine great graphics, a good deal of experimenting with form and great storytelling: Blexbolex is coming to the UK. Nobrow limited, purveyors of such gems as Nick White’s People I’ve Never Met & Conversations I’ve Never Had or Ben Newman’s collaboration with Scott James Donaldson, ‘The Bento [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Comix Influx comes to your iPhone
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Recently, Comix Influx, the open source comix translation hub, has been in a state of flux : lots of new projects have been started or even completed (such as Le Voyage by Baudoin and Bastien Vives’ Le Gout Du Chlore), and generally the site has been getting some quite favourable attention. Earlier this week, Stephen Betts, [...]
Continue reading...From our Continental Correspondent – Willy Linthout missing SPX
Saturday, September 19, 2009
The Small Press Expo, which will be held over Saturday September 26th and Sunday September 27th in Bethesda, Maryland, had announced Willy Linthout as one of the main guests of this year’s gathering, along with mini-comix king John Porcellino. (the poster art for SPX 2009 by Gahan Wilson) We’ve written about Linthout before on the blog (see [...]
Continue reading...From our Continental Correspondent – Lucky Luke rides again
Friday, September 18, 2009
Two new teasers were released last week for James Huth’s upcoming movie, Lucky Luke, based on Maurice De Bevere’s comic about the lonesome cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow. The teasers focus on two of the main baddies from the movie : Calamity Jane and Billy The Kid. Even though both characters are based [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Logicomix, a philosophical biography in comics
Thursday, September 10, 2009
On September 4, 1939, just after Great-Britain had declared war with Germany, philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell spoke to a very sceptical American audience about the “Role of logic in human affairs”. This anecdote is the starting point for Logicomix, a graphic novel about the origins of Russell’s lifelong search to find the undeniable logical [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Kamagurka’s accidental portraits
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Flemish cartoonist and painter Kamagurka never shies away from an experiment, such as turning round the common practice of portrait painting. In 2008 he created a series of portraits for a Belgian television series, based on his imagination. Viewers who recognized themselves were invited to send in their picture. The series was an enormous success, [...]
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