Tag Archive | "bande dessinee"

Comics: Culturethèque offers free access to digital French comics during BD Passion

Monday, May 20, 2013

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Mélissa at Culturethèque drops us a line to let us know about their plans to offer some very cool-sounding online support to go with the upcoming BD & Comics Passion comics festival. Culturethèque is the digital platform for the Institut Français in the UK, offering access to a wide range of digital reading, video and [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Spirou gets all modern and stuff

Friday, May 17, 2013

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Seminal BD magazine Spirou is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, and, as we have already remarked on here before, that event will not pass unnoticed. There are special books, exhibitions, special editions of the magazine itself; there’s even talk of bringing back the Dutch language edition that sadly saw its demise some six years [...]

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From our continental correspondent – You Too Can Be Part Of A Comic

Thursday, May 2, 2013

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Let’s face it, most of us can’t draw a straight line, let alone make a comic of our own.  Then how do we immortalise ourself in our favourite medium?  Don’t despair, friends, there is a solution. French (very) alternative comics publisher Les Requins Marteaux just launched a campaign to fund the publication of Olivier Texier’s [...]

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Upcoming: BD Passion

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

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A reminder that the annual BD Passion festival celebrating some of the best in European, British and North American comics culture is coming up very soon, and the website has been updated now with the full programme of events (talks, workshops, signings and films for all ages). The guest list has been updated too and [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Much to see in Aix-en-Provence

Thursday, April 25, 2013

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As it is their custom, our friends at BoDoï visited the French comics festival Rencontres de la BD in Aix-en-Provence, and they came back with loads of pictures of the various exhibitions and shows, featuring work by Herr Seele, BlexBolex, Zeina Abirached and many more, so those of us who couldn’t make it can still [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Francois Schuiten curates his legacy

Friday, April 19, 2013

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In a quite unique and unprecedented move, that created quite a stir in the Franco-Belgian comics community, cartoonist Fran̤ois Schuiten (Les Cit̩s Obscures and many more comics works Рnot to mention other artistic projects) recently donated some eighty percent of his original comics pages to a series of cultural institutions around Belgium and France. [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Apple bans French comics from app store

Monday, April 15, 2013

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In a surprise move, Apple has forced French digital comics distributor Izneo to remove 1500 titles from its catalogue of 4000. These titles are supposed to be not in compliance with Apple’s content rules and regulations. Izneo specialises in the digital redistribution of existing comics from renowned publishers such as Gallimard, Dupuis, Futuropolis or Dargaud, [...]

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Comics: Dredd crosses the Channel

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

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Looks like you can now enjoy the adventures of Judge Dredd en Francais – spotted this trailer for French publisher Editions Soleil advertising a bande dessinee of the Dredd Mandroid collection; I also see that Soleil have other works including Judge Dredd L’integrale en Noir et Blanc (or what we call Dredd’s Complete Case Files, [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Panorama

Monday, April 8, 2013

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Even though it can boast a very lively comics scene, with quite a few productive authors and a rather impressive publication schedule, Spain is not a country that springs to mind when talking about new and contemporary comics. The new anthology, Panorama (published by comics publisher Astiberri, announced for the end of May), wants to [...]

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From our continental correspondent : a Shadowgraphic history

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

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I like experimental and abstract comics and often find myself in awe of cartoonists who are willing to go beyond the obvious and try to think through an idea to its extremes, until there is nothing left but the pure narration, the pure visual effect or, why the hell not, the pure absurdist joke. A [...]

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