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La Fille Invisible – Translation please….

30. April 2011

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Here’s one of those moments when I really, really wish I’d studied O Level French. Because then I’d be able to read Émilie Villeneuve and Julie Rocheleau’s quite gorgeous looking La Fille Invisible. Sure, I know it translates as “The Invisible Girl” and I can pretty much work out for myself that it has very, [...]

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From our continental correspondent: Translation, please – or – Music to my eyes

25. March 2011

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Cleet Boris is the creative alias of Hubert Mounier, a French singer-songwriter and former singer of the alternative pop band, L’Affaire Louis’ Trio. Boris is also a very gifted cartoonist, with a style that is very much within the Clear Line – Atom Style tradition. But, as the song goes, music was his first love, [...]

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Gil Jourdan to be translated

13. October 2010

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According to a report by Rich Johnston at Bleeding Cool (which I haven’t been able to corroborate at the Fantagraphics website yet), Fantagraphics is planning to publish an English translation of the classic BD series Gil Jourdan by Maurice Tillieux.   Some online sllers are indeed listing Murder by High Tide in the series Gil Jordan, [...]

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Translation Please – The Vertigo Quartet

21. July 2010

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I wrote about the new release of the Vertigo Quartet, that hep young foursome from Belgium about a month ago.  Since then, I’ve been able to get hold of a copy of this production, and it sure is no letdown. The package consists of four tracks, ranging from the extremely short to the quite longish.  [...]

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Translation Please – Quand Je Serai Grand

30. June 2010

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When I was in Angouleme last year I met a very friendly elderly gentleman at the booth of Akileos, one of the smaller publishers that try to get a piece of the French mainstream comics pie.  His name was Chris Flamand, and although he was a cartoonist in his own right, he was there to promote a [...]

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From Our Continental Corresponent – Blacksad collected

23. June 2010

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What do you get if you combine the best cliches of the hard-boiled detective genre with puss-in-boots ?  You get Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guardino’s excellent Blacksad series, about the adventures of a private eye trying hard to stay on the straight and narrow, while all around him the sleazeballs and no-goods are trying [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Translation, please: Lydie

18. June 2010

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A short while ago (see here) I reported on Dargaud’s announcement of the graphic novel, Lydie by Jordi Lafebre and Zidrou and how much I was looking forward to it. Since then I have actually gotten hold of and read the book, and I can tell you, it doesn’t disappoint in even the slightest way. [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Shards by Erik De Graaf

21. May 2010

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(cover to Scherven – Shards -  by and (c) Erik De Graaf, published Oog & Blik) I think I mentioned my good friend and clear line purist Erik De Graaf’s new book, Scherven (Shards) before.  A couple of days ago, Erik send me an email to announce that the book finally had been published by [...]

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From our continental correspondet – translation, please (I think): Lydie

16. April 2010

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Sometimes you only need to look at a few pages of a book to know : “Yes, another one I’m going to fall in love with”.  (totally – sometimes you simply know the minute you pick up a book or comic – Joe) The latest example for me is the graphic novel Lydie by Zidrou [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Translation Please: Iedereen Op Zoek

25. August 2009

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There’s this guy who’s so wrapped up in his daily cubicle life that he treats his electric appliances as his children. And then there’s the racist skinhead who is at a loss when a black woman asks him a simple question in the flowers stall where he works. Oh, and then there’s the little girl [...]

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From our continental correspondent – (no) Translation (needed) please: Antisol

20. March 2009

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Kim Duchateau is one of the standard bearers of the absurdist comic tradition in Belgium.  In series like Esther Verkest or Aldegonde, and in countless topical cartoons, illustrations and strips in newspapers and magazines, he allows his readers glimpses in the consistently weird world of his mind, filled with sadist midgets, blooper machines, mummies and [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Translation please: Marzi

11. March 2009

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A few days before Christmas in 2003, Marzena Sowa told her partner, cartoonist Sylvain Savoia, a story of how the people in Poland buy a live carp for Christmas and keep it in their bathtub until they cook it for the festive dinner.  Savoia was struck by the vividness of the story, and asked her [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Translation Please special: Erik De Graaf

29. December 2008

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For this latest in the Translation, Please series, where Wim highlights some of the excellent and highly respected works from the Continental comics community and asks why no UK or US publisher is translating them for the English language market, we have something of a special post as Wim talks to one of the creators [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Translation Please: Kraut

3. December 2008

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How we forgive our fathers… In 1978 Joseph Pollmann, writer, journalist, and father of underground cartoonist Peter Pontiac, disappeared from the face of the earth on a beach in Curaçao.  He left a rented Volkswagen, with the keys in the ignition, along with some personal objects, but was never seen again.  Pollmann’s life at that [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Translation Please: the Furox

17. November 2008

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Imagine a story about a Jewish cryptozoologist who has to flee Germany when the Nazi’s gain power, only to battle his successor at the university over the fate of the last Furox, the flying, fire-breathing but not-that-fearsome dragon of legend.  That is the story of The Furox, a graphic novel series by Belgian cartoonist Simon [...]

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