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From our continental correspondent – Schrauwen in Space
Connoisseurs of small but delicate comics work have a good excuse to plan a short trip to Antwerp for tomorrow. On Friday 25th May, a delightful exhibition of original drawings and prints by celebrated New Flemish Name Olivier Schrauwen will open in the Bries Space, a small-scale art centre run by the same people behind [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Francois Schuiten’s Mood of the Past
Tuesday, May 15, 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...The (comics) Wild, Wild West – Lucky Luke
Friday, May 11, 2012
Lucky Luke Directed by James Huth Starring Jean Dujardin, Michael Youn, Sylvie Testud, Daniel Prevost, Alexandra Lamy Lucky Luke, the lonesome cowboy who can drawn and shoot faster than his shadow has been around for a long time – 1946, in fact, since the great Morris first drew his Wild West hero. Over the decades [...]
Continue reading...Kinky and Cosy at Angoulême
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Okay, I admit this very short video is in French, with Dutch subtitles, but it’s a live-action version of Nix’s Kinky and Cosy making an appearance on stage at Angoulême and frankly, language barriers aside, it’s too funny not to bung it up here to to share (plus it is very short!): And, as Wim blogged [...]
Continue reading...Alex’s audio roundup
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Time for Alex Fitch’s weekly roundup of the audio programmes he is involved with, including, I see, one covering a subject very close to the heart of our own Continental Correspondent Wim – Belgian comics. As always check the Panel Borders site for more details and for archived podcasts of previous shows: Panel Borders: Belgian [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Fluide Glacial goes Python
Monday, April 30, 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
Wednesday, April 25, 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...BD Passion site is live
Thursday, April 19, 2012
The site for this year’s BD Passion event celebrating French and British comics culture is now live and choc-full of details of some great bande dessinee gigs in the heart of London. Taking place over May 24th to the 27th, the festival will include a reading group with Paul Gravett (doubtless in his full Jackanory [...]
Continue reading...Sarah’s literary travels
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Sarah McIntyre has been off on her travels to Belgium and the Netherlands, and of course she took some time to explore some lovely bookstores and pick up a fine haul of French language comics and children’s illustrated books. There are some lovely pics up on her blog of some fabulous looking old and new [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Erik De Graaf cartoons Soldaat van Oranje
Monday, April 16, 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
Wednesday, April 11, 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
Tuesday, April 10, 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...Moebius archive
Thursday, March 22, 2012
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The blog of respected French publisher Dargaud posts up some shots from a visit to their archives, yielding up some elements from early Moebius – under his Jean Giruad name – and showing the components that have to be slotted together to create a graphic novel, or I should say album here, especially back in [...]
Continue reading...Alex Robinson goes to Castellón
Wednesday, March 21, 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!
Friday, March 16, 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 [...]
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