Tag Archive | "bande dessinee"

From our continental correspondent – Esprit BD

Friday, February 3, 2012

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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 [...]

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Angouleme – Sean’s French Diary

Thursday, February 2, 2012

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Continiung our reports from this year’s Angoulême comics festival  which Wim kicked off live from the event on Friday, today we have a special treat as the excellent Sean Azzopardi, now a confirmed veteran of the BD festival, kindly agreed to give us his take on Angoulême from the point of view of an independent [...]

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From our Continenal Correspondent: Angouleme – the best of the rest

Monday, January 30, 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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From our continental correspondent – Spiegelman conquers Angouleme

Friday, January 27, 2012

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I attended the comics festival of Angoulême a couple of times in the past, and even though the event generally has a fairly international feel to it, it’s always been a predominantly French affair, albeit with a good contingent of guests from other lands. With the presidency of Art Spiegelman however, it would seem that [...]

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24 hour comics in Angoulême

Friday, January 27, 2012

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Dan Berry has been over in Angoulême for several days before the start of the main part of Europe’s most important comics festival and regularly tweeting and posting online about his experiences, including this year’s 24 hour comics – or we should say 24 heures de la bande dessinee, which he notes had an incredibly [...]

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Counting down to Angouleme – the exhibitions

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

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One of the main reasons for going to the bande dessinee festival in Angoulême, next to bumping into some of your heroes in the street and ending up having coffee with them, are the exhibitions.  It seems the organisers are trying to crank it up a notch with every edition. Last year Art Spiegelman won [...]

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Counting down to Angouleme – the selection

Thursday, January 19, 2012

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With lodgings, accreditation and train all dealt with, it’s time to start really preparing for the Smorgasbord of comics that is the Angoulême Festival.  In this post I’ll be highlighting some of the more surprising or noteworthy titles on the several short lists, honour lists or other sélections that the Festival has. On the Sélection [...]

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Judith Vanistendael in Brussels

Thursday, January 19, 2012

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The excellent Belgian comics creator Judith Vanistendael will be at the Librairie Galerie Brusel, 100 Boulevard Anspach, on the 20th of January at 6pm to promote her new book David, les Femmes et la Mort, being published by Le Lombard. It’s an intriguing looking tale of a man facing almost certain death after a cancer [...]

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Counting down to Angouleme : Spiegelman speaks

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

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The tradition dictates that whoever wins the Grand Prix at the Angoulème Comics Festival, is invited to curate the next edition of the Festival.  This means that he or she will probably get a major retrospective exhibition (which are always a treat in their own right), but also that the festival will focus on particular [...]

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10 best of 11

Thursday, January 5, 2012

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As is customary, our beloved editor inquired about what we thought were the best books of the past year.  ”Just pick your top three or something”, he said.  I picked 10.  It’s been that kind of year, so sue me.  For good reference, I divided them into neat little departments. The Dept of Epic Awesomeness [...]

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Killoffer’s album art

Thursday, January 5, 2012

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BD Gest reports on a new album by Renaud, the limited two disc edition of which comes complete with an 80-page CD-sized illustrated work/comic by the excellent Killoffer. Nice. (thanks to Simon Gurr for the tip):

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Herge’s Heir

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

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As is probably well-known by now, Stephen Spielberg managed to successfully turn Tintin into a movie.  Alan Baran, an intimate friend of Hergé’s and his last private secretary, was also the man who conducted the first negotiations with Spielberg.  And he liked what he saw. UK and European audiences have already enjoyed the film and [...]

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The new Vanistendael is very promising

Thursday, December 8, 2011

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Only a year ago, SelfMadeHero published the English edition of Flemish cartoonist Judith Vanistendael‘s moving graphic novel, Dance By The Light Of The Moon (which was an official “Sélection” for the prestigious Angoulême Festival, usually a great mark of quality comics work), a gripping story about life, love, differences and similarities and how you never [...]

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Expocomic announces 2011 winners

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

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At the Expocomic festival in Madrid, Spain, the winners of the 2011 awards were announced last week.   The lifetime achievement award went to Esteban Maroto, who is probably best known for his work for various Warren Publications magazines, such as Eerie, Creepy and Vampirella.  He is also credited with the design of Red Sonja’s [...]

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New Swarte

Monday, November 28, 2011

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I Love Joost Swarte (warning, Flash heavy site).  The capital “L” in the previous sentence is not a typo – I Love his work, and especially the very carefully designed small press books he produces for various occasions.  One of these is a small leporello-type booklet which was originally published to celebrate the National Readers [...]

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