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Wim - who has written 388 posts on The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log.
Tillieux in Brussels
The Maison de la Bande Dessinée in Brussels, near the Gare du Midi, may be less well-known than the Belgian Comic Strip Museum, but it is equally deserving of your visit. That is, if you are a comic buff who is mad about original art. Don’t expect any animation activities (except for some lone colouring [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Les BD’s invade the Cinéma!
Friday, September 16, 2011
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OK, let’s all calm down after that total abomination that was The Smurfs movie (does anyone have the name of a good therapist? I think our poor Wim needs help to get over the Smurfs movie – Joe), which still reaped in record figures at the box office. There’s more, and much, much better film [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – September is comic month in Amsterdam
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
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If you’re a comic buff and you were planning on a weekend in Amsterdam, September might be a good time to do so. The city which always has been associated with illustrators and cartoonists (and which since 1968 has been the home to one of the best comic stores in the entire world, Lambiek) has [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent: 20 years of Reprodukt
Monday, September 12, 2011
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Highly respected German comics publisher Reprodukt is celebrating its 20th anniversary in style. This is the German publisher of people like Charles Burns, Craig Thompson, Max, Adrian Tomine, Posy Simmonds, Dupu and Bernerian and basically everyone who’s anyone in the world of literary comics. They’re also the native language publishing house behind names like Mawil, [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – JC Menu us alive and kicking
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
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After having been ousted as director of L’Association, one of the most important independent comics publishers in France, JC Menu did not simply go away to die in some corner quietly. He mainly regrouped and is now returning to publishing with a new venture, strikingly called “L’apocalypse”. In a short note, reprinted at Stephen Betts’ [...]
Continue reading...A very animated Max
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
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In 1992, Spanish cartoonist Max (creator of the fantastic Bardin The Superrealist) created a video clip for the song Tierra by Spanish pop group Radio Futura. Thanks to La Cárcel de Papel‘s Álvaro Pons, and while we’re waiting for the new Max book, which has been announced for the end of the year, we can [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent: Translation Please – Zazie
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
When the mother of young Zazie wants to spend a weekend with her new boyfriend, she asks her brother Gabriël to look after the little girl. Zazie looks forward to spending time with Gabriël, because he lives in Paris and she loves the Métro. Much to her chagrin, though, the métro drivers are on strike. [...]
Continue reading...Pravda and snowy
Thursday, August 18, 2011
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Holy cow, there’s just too much comics intertextuality going on here ! Channeling the modus operandi perfected by Andy Warhol, in 2008 French cartoonist Jean-C. Denis created a portrait of Guy Peelaert‘s equally pop art heroin Pravda, holding that other famous Belgian female, Snowy. And all the while a quartet of angry or merely bewildered [...]
Continue reading...Here’s some smurfy goodness…
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
So you read the damning reviews of the Smurfs movie, and you at least felt some slight unease at the first glimpses of the blue dwarves in the trailer, and this has really brought you down. Were these the cool cartoon characters you knew from when you were a kid ? Could it be we [...]
Continue reading...Rob Croonenborghs likes Zombies !
Friday, July 22, 2011
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With a title like Jesus hates Zombies : A Jurassic Kinda Life (215Ink), the third installment of writer Stephen Lindsay’s over-the-top survival epic, you at least have a comic that delivers what it promises. Elaborating on the premise that any theme from popular culture gets better if you throw it together with a few random [...]
Continue reading...Peyo in Paris
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
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Those among you who have a soft spot for the little blue dwarves that are the Smurfs, who are awaiting the upcoming Smurfs movie with dread in their hearts and would rather dwell on the fact that Smurfs creator Peyo originally created some actually pretty fine comics, and who happen to be in Paris, are [...]
Continue reading...Comical protest
Monday, July 18, 2011
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This may be quite old news, but with the current financial climate and its effect on government spending (or increasing lack thereof) across pretty much every Western country on things that are deemed to be unnecessary, such as art or health care, it may be a source of inspiration. On July 4th, the creators of [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Translation, thanks : The Adventures of Hergé
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
As always, this year’s Fall List from Drawn And Quarterly is a joy in and of itself (new Clowes, Seth, Tomine, Beaton and Barry collected! More Nipper!), but there’s one book that I would like to draw your attention to in particular : The Adventures of Hergé, by Jose-Louis Bocquet, Jean-Luc Fromental and Stanislas Barthelemy. [...]
Continue reading...News from the Tintinologists
Thursday, June 23, 2011
With the Spielberg-Jackson movie slated for the end of the year, it would seem that all Tintin news these days is limited to standard American marketing and PR style fodder (this just in : Weta is preparing a series of limited-edition statuettes based on the movie’s characters, with Haddock being the first in line). Let’s [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Fantagraphics to publish classic Peelaert
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
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Good news for fans of vintage 60s pop material: Fantagraphics (one of our favourite publishers) recently announced (in their own, “you have to find it if you’re really interested” kind of way, burying it deep in their site) that they have acquired the publishing rights for the English language editions for two classic albums by [...]
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
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