Tag Archive | "bande dessinee"

From our continental correspondent – Adele teaser online

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

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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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From our continental correspondent – Blexbolex for Bastia

Thursday, January 7, 2010

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Ever since his Abécédaria was chosen as the most beautiful book at the 2008 Leipzig Book Fair (see here), it would seem that the world has (finally) discovered French cartoonist and illustrator BlexBolex.  Abécédaria was recently translated into German, English and other languages, and now BlexBolex was asked to create the poster for the 2010 [...]

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From our continental correspondent: Tibet, creator of Ric Hochet, passes away

Monday, January 4, 2010

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There are nicer ways of starting the new year than by announcing the death of yet another mainstay of European comics.  As the Flemish comic blog Strip Turnhout announced on Sunday, cartoonist Tibet passed away during the night of Saturday, January 2nd, at the age of 78. (Tibet at the 1989 Angouleme Festival, pic borrowed from [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Comics Research Haarlem 2010 focuses on Eastern Europe

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

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In June, 2010 the Haarlem Comics Festival will take place for the tenth time in a row.  That, and the fact that the Stichting Beeldverhaal Nederland will celeberate its 20th anniversary, calls for something special.  Next to the obligatory reminiscing on previous editions, this has turned out to be a quite ambitious project which aims [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Angouleme: Les Sélections 2010; Wim’s take

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

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Last week the Angouleme Festival announced the “Sélections” for its 2010 edition.  These are sixty-odd books that were published over the past year, and that are deemed to be indispensible in any Bande Dessinée library. As is the tradition, it’s a real smorgasbord of styles, subjects and formats.  The usual suspects are present, of course, with [...]

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Mawil and Trondheim at the Goethe

Monday, November 30, 2009

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(Lewis Trondheim, Mawil and Marc Baines at the Goethe in Glasgow, overseen by Mr O and Mr I) Okay, when I posted up the report of last week’s wonderful European comics night with Germany’s Mawil and France’s Lewis Trondheim organised by the Goethe Institut and the Alliance Français in Glasgow I teased you by alluding to [...]

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Mawil and Trondheim in Glasgow

Friday, November 27, 2009

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‘Twas a dark and stormy night as I set off for Glasgow; howling wind and driving, slushy rain falling out of the dark night. I’m glad to say the dreadful weather didn’t dampen spirits though and any fears that it might put off people from venturing out to Glasgow’s Goethe Institut were put to rest; [...]

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Mobius speed drawing

Thursday, November 26, 2009

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The acclaimed comics creator Mobius (aka Jean Giraud) speed drawing on a graphics tablet at last year’s Angoulème  Festival  (via Dave Gibbons’ Twitter).

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Mawil and Trondheim in Glasgow this Wednesday

Monday, November 23, 2009

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This week in Glasgow there’s a rare chance to see and hear two highly acclaimed comics creators from the European scene, with Mawil and Lewis Trondheim appearing in the city’s Goethe Institut (in conjunction with the Alliance Français) on Wednesday 25th November at 7pm. The evening will be chaired by cartoonist, publisher and lecturer Marc [...]

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Bienvenue/welcome Lord Yoyo

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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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 [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Angoulême update

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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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 [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Behind the scenes with BoDoï

Thursday, November 12, 2009

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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 [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Blake and Mortimer ride again, but it wasn’t easy

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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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 [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Angoulème in dire financial straits

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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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 [...]

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Blake & Mortimer S.O.S. Meteors

Monday, November 9, 2009

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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 [...]

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