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From our continental correspondent: Angoulême – the future of BD in the US

2. February 2011

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English-speaking public with very particular ideas about what comics should be. Or the Anglophone publishers in Angoulême. Alex Bowler from Random House had come to Angoulême looking for direct contacts.  As a British publisher, he faces great competition from US firms, who often buy the rights to a book for the whole world and not [...]

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Charles Berberian’s Jukebox

28. January 2011

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Just in time for Angoulême, Fluide Glacial brings a nice new little book by Charles Berbérian, one half of the Dupuy et Berbérian combo that brought the world Monsieur Jean, Boboland, and more assorted gems.  In Jukebox (a “true stereophonic book that was conceived to be read at a very high volume”), Berbérian calls up [...]

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From our continental correspondent – current events through comics

27. January 2011

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The venerable French current affairs monthly, Le Monde Diplomatique, has partnered with the publishing house Homecooking Books to create a special edition, or Hors Série as the French so lovingly call it, in which the well-wrought essays and analyses that the paper is known for, have been replaced by no less analytical and well-wrought comics.  [...]

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Angou update : Apps and Aso…

24. January 2011

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All across Europe, comics types seem to be gearing up for Angoulême, but the Festival is also doing its best to engage the public in general.  In order to get more people involved in the selection of the best comics of last year, it launched a free iPhone and iPad app, which gives you an [...]

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I don’t search, I find – Antonio Parras’ last interview

21. January 2011

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On June 2, 2010, Spanish cartoonist Antonio Parras (pseudonym for Juan-Antonio Parras Monlat, 1929-2010) passed away.  Only a few months before, Roel Daenen, one of the contributors to the Flemish comic magazine Stripgids, had a long conversation with him, which proved to be the last interview Parras ever would give.  The interview was published in [...]

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From our continental correspondent – happy new year from Moebius

20. January 2011

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It’s still January, which means it’s still not inappropriate to wish one another a happy new year.  And so I would like to draw your attention to the animated New Year’s card that French comics god Moebius created for the Fondation Cartier. 2011 E-Card, by Mœbius Uploaded by FondationCartier. – Arts and animation videos. If [...]

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Herge Museum director quits

18. January 2011

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The Belgian economic weekly Trends/Tendances reports that Laurent de Froberville has resigned from his job as director of the Hergé Museum in Louvain-La-Neuve on New Year’s eve.  De Froberville takes this decision a mere three years after his appointment and only a year and a half after the museum opened its doors.  De Froberville has [...]

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Comics are wimpy all around

13. January 2011

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As I was going over the (far too long) list of comics I bought and read this year, I was wondering what comics do in terms of market share across Europe: if you took all the books that were sold in a particular country or language, how many comics would make it in the top [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Colibri II just got launched

12. January 2011

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Spanish publishers Apa Apa comics just announced the publication of the second edition of their Colibri fanzine, a very international collection of comics and art by people like Elisa Riera, Sergi Puyol, Felipe Almendros, Clara Tanit, Evripidis Sabatis, Antoni Hervàs, Leandro Alzate, Liz Prince, Markéta Michálková, Marc Bell, Sara González, Quique Ramos, Tommi Musturi, Mireia [...]

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Best of the Year: Wim

7. January 2011

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Once more, we stand in front of our bulging book cases and wonder what it was that made this life wonderful.  And since 10, it would seem, is the magic number, here are ten books that really made my year. The Spirit by David Hines and Moritat, et al. (DC Comics) – This is the [...]

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From our continental correspondent: the Man Who Would Be Tintin

5. January 2011

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It was probably no more than a small article in the paper, buried in between the rest of the obituaries of that day: on November 26th of 2010, Danish actor Palle Huld died at the age of 98 in Copenhagen.  Still, the news should have rung a bell among comic afficionadoes worldwide, and Tintinologists more [...]

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Festivals in January? There can be only one

4. January 2011

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Our monthly overview of comics festivals in Europe is a bit shorter than we would like it to be this time.  However, it’s quite understandable – after all, who in his right mind is going to put up another festival in the same month as that behemoth of comics fests: the annual Festival de la [...]

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Best of 2010 – Toon Horsten’s ode to the newspaper strip

3. January 2011

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Today’s guest Best of the Year post is an extra special one as one of our good European chums, Toon Horsten, no stranger to readers of the blog, being one of the guiding lights behind the respected Stripgids journal (which has been good enough to let us post translations of some of their interviews over [...]

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From our continental correspondent: second Largo Winch film announced for 2011

3. January 2011

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The French comics blog BD Gest points us towards the trailer (or bande-annonce, as the French say) of the new Largo Winch movie, which is to be released on February 16th, 2011.  As was the case with the first movie (and the desastrous TV series bevore that), this film is based on the comics series [...]

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Bagge on Belgium

16. December 2010

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Fans of Peter Bagge, take note : in the third (or actually, the fourth) issue of the Belgian”graphical press” El Rios, Bagge makes fun of how little he and his fellow Americans know about our little country by the sea.  El Rios is a beautiful publication by the Brussels design studio Coiffeurs Pour Dames, who [...]

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