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From our continental correspondent – L’association at the Sismics festival
For its 2010 edition, the annual Sismics alternative comics and graphic art festival in Sierre, Switzerland, seems to have hit the jackpot. In the past, the festival focused on the less-than-mainstream, quite often quite obscure, self-published comic, but this year they’re playing in a major league. Legendary French comics cooperative L’association will be celebrating its [...]
Continue reading...New Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec teaser
Monday, March 15, 2010
Back in January Wim reported that a brief teaser trailer was now online for The Strange Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec, a film adaptation of the turn-of-the-century adventure comics from the great Jacques Tardi, starring Louise Bourgoin (as the titular Adèle), Gilles Lellouche and Mathieu Amalric (the baddie in the last Bond movie) and directed by [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Moomin at the Belgian Comic Strip Centre
Monday, March 8, 2010
At the Brussels Belgian Comic Strip Centre, a nice little exhibition has been put up about Moomin, Finland’s best known contribution to comics. Originally, creator Tove Jansson (1914-2001) wrote and illustrated a series of illustrated novels featuring the white, hippopotamus-like creatures. Over the years though, the world of the Moomins expanded and currently [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – the Clear Line conquers Europe
Friday, February 26, 2010
In 2008 the European Commission organised a competition to create a comic that would illustrate how Europe contributes in fighting suffering and injustice in the world. The winner turned out to be then 43-year old Erik Bongers, who had never published a full-fledged comic book before (even though he is a regular contributor to the [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Netherlands to be the guest country at Ficomic Barcelona
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
From May 6th to May 9th this year, the 28th edition of Ficomic, the Salón Internacional del Comic will take place in the Feria de Barcelona. Not a lot is known as yet about the programme: a recent press release only revealed that among the confirmed guests were Gilbert Shelton, Jeff Smith, Liberatore, Lewis Trondheim, [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – 24 heures de la BD, a quick selection
Friday, February 12, 2010
This year’s edition of the 24 heures de la BD, a competition of 24-hour comics that is organised in the margins of the Angoulême Festival, is especially interesting for non-French speakers, as one of the constraints was that the story had to be totally wordless, or “muette” as the French put it. It also should [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – comics in crisis: BD sales part II
Thursday, February 11, 2010
This piece continues my review (see yesterday’s post) of Xavier Guilbert’s analysis of sales figures in French comics for 2009, as published in the French comics magazine Du9. In this part, Guilbert looks at the role of manga in the French market, and at the success stories of 2009. When you walk around in comic conventions [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – crisis hits comics: BD sales part I
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
At the end of last year, the French Association of Comic Critics and Journalists released its Bilan, or annual report on the state of the industry (rather than the art, even though we are in France). They were rather optimistic, seeing many new publishers and publications, and a growing number of authors working in the [...]
Continue reading...Comix Influx reports on Angoulême
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Stephen Betts has posted up a good report on the weekend’s Angoulême comics festival on Comics Influx, covering the exhibitions in some detail, the BD albums he was busy picking up and some of the new faces, including, I am delighted to see, some of our faves from the British scene: “It was great to [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Next in comics: the commentary track
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Marketing boys never stop. In the US, they’ve tried to flog you multiple copies of comics by using different, “exclusive”, covers, while in France they typically add limited edition prints and ex-librises to them, or whip together a “dossier” to go along with the album. And sometimes they actually succeed in creating something nice, like [...]
Continue reading...Baru takes Grand Prix at Angoulême
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Tom at The Comics Reporter announces that Hervé Baruléa – better known as Baru – has won the highly prestigious Grand Prix at the annual Angoulême comics festival in France, meaning he will be the president at next year’s festival. Tom also has a run down of other awards to emerge from what’s pretty much [...]
Continue reading...Comix Influx at Angoulême
Thursday, January 28, 2010
We’ve pointed you to the fine Comics Influx site several times before; for those who aren’t yet familiar with it, its a site dedicated to a subject close to our hearts, making some of the fab comics work coming out of Europe (and further afield) more accessible by sharing reader’s translations of foreign language graphic [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – What I Will Miss In Angoulême This Year
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
It’s end of January again, and in comicsland that means that the French town of Angoulême will once again be invaded by comics creators, publishers and fans, celebrating their favorite artform in all its glory (over the weekend of the 28th to 31st). As much as I would have liked joining in the festivities, that’s [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Jacques Martin, a personal reflection
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Last week, Jacques Martin died in his home in Switzerland. As the creator of Alix and Lefranc he was one of the founding fathers of the Tintin style of Franco-Belgian comics, particularly predominant in the magazine of the same name, and in terms of graphical language and subject matter quite the opposite of the Spirou [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Adele teaser online
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
It’s only four months to go until the premiere of Luc Besson’s eagerly awaited film, The Strange Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (which we first mentioned around this time last year), starring Louise Bourgoin, Gilles Lellouche and Mathieu Amalric (best known to non Francophone audiences for playing the villain in the last Bond movie, Quantum of [...]
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