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Earlier this year Wim posted on the growth of the French language comics blogosphere (see here), which has now reached a level where even the holies of holies in the Francophone comics calendar, the Angoulème Festival, added a special award recognising online comics work. In his introduction to some of the more interesting French language [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Angoulême update
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
A couple of days ago we reported, admittedly rather belatedly, that the Angoulême Festival organisers had run into a bit of trouble in financing the next edition of the festival. A dispute with the local government on who should pay for the construction of the festival tents lead to a huge gap in the organisation’s [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Behind the scenes with BoDoï
Thursday, November 12, 2009
For a while now, French comics news blog BoDoï has been catering to the curious George in every one of us by publishing pictures from the workplaces of several cartoonists, without telling who they belong to. The 18th Atelier Mystère was published last week (see below), but you can still have a look at the [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Blake and Mortimer ride again, but it wasn’t easy
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
If you believe the press in France and in the French part of Belgium, the arrival of the new Blake And Mortimer (scheduled for publication in French on November 20th) will be met with a level of hysterics unseen since the release of the latest Astérix book (and which it undoubtedly will fail to reach [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Angoulème in dire financial straits
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
According to reports by the French Sud-Ouest newspaper and the RTL news, the 2010 edition of the world-renowned comics festival of Angoulême (scheduled for January 28th to 31st) may not take place after all. The news has been confirmed to comics blog BoDoï’s Benjamin Roure by the festival’s organisers. The problem seems to be the construction [...]
Continue reading...Blake & Mortimer S.O.S. Meteors
Monday, November 9, 2009
Blake & Mortimer: S.O.S. Meteors by Edgar P. Jacobs Cinebook Euro-comics admission time – I’ve never read any Blake & Mortimer before this. <gasp> I know, I know, almost sacrilegious and a massive gap in my comic knowledge, but there really were very few opportunities to get hold of Euro comics translated into English up until now and [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Shaun Tan’s European Tour
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Celebrated Australian illustrator and cartoonist Shaun tan (The Arrival, Tales From Outer Suburbia) is currently touring Europe (or at least part of it) with an exhibition of a selection of his illustrative work and comics. The exhibition debuted on October 11th in the Burg Wissem Bilderbuchmuseum (or Picture Book Museum) in Troisdorf, Germany, and features [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Jef Nys 1927 to 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Jef Nys, the creator of Flemish comic hero Jommeke and one of the most succesful cartoonists in Flemish history, passed away earlier this week. He was born in Antwerp in 1927, and originally wanted to become an engineer. When he was 16 he started attending art classes in the Royal Academy in Antwerp and turned [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Uderzo announces new Asterix album
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Amidst a lot of media buzz, Albert Uderzo, creator of the popular French comics hero Astérix, last week announced the publication of The Anniversary Of Asterix And Obelix, the new Asterix comic, which is planned for October 22nd (in numerous countries) on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Astérix’s first appearance in Pilote magazine. [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Sexties in Brussels – the other meaning of “adult”
Monday, October 12, 2009
With Brussels ‘09, the year-long comics festival in the Belgian capital, slowly but surely coming to a close, the final big exhibition opened last weekend in the Bozar, the Arts and performance palace in the heart of the city. Whereas the previous eye-catcher had been held in the chambers of the Musée Royal des [...]
Continue reading...Petit Nicolas stamps
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
The French post office is issuing stamps featuring Le Petit Nicolas, created by Asterix co-creator René Goscinny and cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé. According to Wim’s Ephemerist blog the stamps are being issued to coincide with a Petit Nicolas movie. Bon!
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Comix Influx comes to your iPhone
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Recently, Comix Influx, the open source comix translation hub, has been in a state of flux : lots of new projects have been started or even completed (such as Le Voyage by Baudoin and Bastien Vives’ Le Gout Du Chlore), and generally the site has been getting some quite favourable attention. Earlier this week, Stephen Betts, [...]
Continue reading...Igntaz & Shuster award winners
Monday, September 28, 2009
Kevin at Robot 6 and others have been reporting on this year’s Ignatz winners which were announced over the weekend at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland. The Ignatz winners (and indeed the shortlist nominees) are usually a damned fine place to pick up some recommended reading suggestions from the independent comics presses, from [...]
Continue reading...From our Continental Correspondent – Willy Linthout missing SPX
Saturday, September 19, 2009
The Small Press Expo, which will be held over Saturday September 26th and Sunday September 27th in Bethesda, Maryland, had announced Willy Linthout as one of the main guests of this year’s gathering, along with mini-comix king John Porcellino. (the poster art for SPX 2009 by Gahan Wilson) We’ve written about Linthout before on the blog (see [...]
Continue reading...From our Continental Correspondent – Lucky Luke rides again
Friday, September 18, 2009
Two new teasers were released last week for James Huth’s upcoming movie, Lucky Luke, based on Maurice De Bevere’s comic about the lonesome cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow. The teasers focus on two of the main baddies from the movie : Calamity Jane and Billy The Kid. Even though both characters are based [...]
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