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From our continental correspondent – summer’s coming, time for some festivals!
It has been a while coming, but with summer finally arriving here are a few pointers for upcoming comics festivals on the Continent for the coming month or so. We’ve just had the 31st edition of the Arctic Comics Festival in Kemi, Finland, where Christophe Blain was the guest of honour. Also present were tintinologist [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Francois Schuiten’s Mood of the Past
15. May 2012
François Schuiten’s never been one for straightforward comic work. His long-running series, Les Cités Obscures (with Benoît Peeters) always involved intricate imagery combined with almost labyrinthine storytelling. Just doing a comic doesn’t seem to be enough of a challenge for Schuiten. Recently, Schuiten has been in the news with new productions that are perfect examples [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Fluide Glacial goes Python
30. April 2012
In a Special Edition, on the shelves this month, French satirical magazine Fluide Glacial pays hommage to those venerable godfathers of absurdist humour, also known as Monty Python. The issue features contributions from comics greats and FG regulars like Gotlib (!), Coyote (who does the cover), Jannin, Berberian, Joan, Dupré, Thiriet, Chauzy and more. There [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Boule et Bill come to the big screen
25. April 2012
WC Fields warned us so many years ago : never work with children or animals. Still, a Franco-Belgian film crew is doing just that in the outskirts of Brussels these days, in an attempt to bring the adventures of Boule et Bill to the big screen. These classic one-page gags about a boy and his [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Erik De Graaf cartoons Soldaat van Oranje
16. April 2012
Just recently the respected Dutch comics publisher Oog en Blik presented its new prestige project, Filmfanfare, which consists of a collection of short comics by Dutch cartoonists, based on classic Dutch films. An earlier, similar publication with one-page versions of classic Dutch and Flemish books (Mooi Is Dat, published by De Vliegende Hollander) proved that [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Eurocomics at the Eisners
11. April 2012
Traditionally the Eisner awards are pretty much a US only affair, inasmuch that a “Best US Edition of International Material” (and a similar one for Asian comics) was thought up to celebrate the wealth of comics beyond the American borders. Still, this year a good few Eurocomics managed getting nominated for an award in the [...]
Continue reading...From our conteinental correspondent – Frodo De Decker
10. April 2012
Frodo De Decker is a 30 year old cartoonist from Flanders who specialises in short, silent strips that typically chronicle the adventures of a rather hapless little guy, who ends up in one pickle after another. Earlier De Decker released a number of one-page gags in an Ipad app, but now the brand new Dutch [...]
Continue reading...The Moro Studios remembered
3. April 2012
Until the 6th of May, the Sala El Águila exhibition hall in Madrid, Spain, is putting on an exhibition about the legendary Moro studios. Dubbed The Announcement of Modernity, the show illustrates the groundbraking genius of Jose Luis Moro who from the 1940′s until the 1970′s, together with his brother Santiago, pioneered modern animation in Spain, [...]
Continue reading...Alex Robinson goes to Castellón
21. March 2012
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Cartoonist Alex Robinson (his self-portraits get more self-depricating every time) is one of the guests of honor at this years ComiCS festival in Castellón de la Plana, together with Catalan surrealist wizard Max and topical cartoonist Manuel Fontdevila. The festival, which runs from March 28th until April 1st, also features exhibitions on the South-African Bitterkomix [...]
Continue reading...Stripburger works!
16. March 2012
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The next issue of the Stripburger anthology, which is based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, but operates on an international scale, will be focused on the theme of work. Once work was what you did to survive, to bring food on the table, or to express yourself. Nowadays the boundaries between work time and free time seem [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Comics month at Sterling
15. March 2012
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Sterling Books, the finest purveyor of English-language books in Brussels, is celebrating comics month this month. All through March, special events will be organised, with competitions, interviews and lots more. On this glorious occasion, they invited a number of cartoonists and illustrators from Brighton University to add some décor to their shop windows. On their [...]
Continue reading...How Giraud opened my eyes
13. March 2012
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Jean Giraud, creator extraordinaire, has passed away. It would have befitted any Continental Correspondent worth his mettle to at least write a piece about that sad, sad fact. However, the ever-present and relentless Richard beat me to it. There’s another reason why I’m not really keen on doing a real retrospective is that I hardly [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Flemish artists rule at Nobrow
6. March 2012
I’m a little behind with my comics news, I know, but I wanted to point all of you brits to a veritable Flemish invasion that’s happening over at the graphical geniuses of Nobrow. Earlier this month, Nobrow announced the publication of the second volume in its Big Mother art book series, completely dedicated to the [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Esprit BD
3. February 2012
One of the most rewarding experiences at the Angoulême Comics Festival has to be the Pavillon des Jeunes Talents, the tent that showcases the best entries to the yearly competition for young cartoonists. Every year, hundreds of young artists from all around the world send in a sample of their work, typically a three-to-four page [...]
Continue reading...From our Continenal Correspondent: Angouleme – the best of the rest
30. January 2012
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I didn’t go to any of the talks or interviews at Angoulême this year, partly because I didn’t feel like standing in line for hours, and partly because this year’s menu was plentiful enough. Just attending the many exhibitions took most of my time here. There was a very good show in the Comics Museum, [...]
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