Tag Archive | "bande dessinee"

Bastia as if you were there…

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

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Those amongst us who were unable to attend the comic festival in Bastia this weekend, fear not !  Thanks to the good people of Bodoï, the French comics blog of choice, you can at least pretend you were there.  The past few days, they presented lavishly illustrated reports of all the important exhibitions. The main [...]

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Farm 54

Friday, April 1, 2011

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I dread the times when I’m suddenly confronted with my own tendency and talent for procrastination.  For years I’ve been meaning to do a samizdat translation of the graphic novel, Ferme 54 by Galit and Gilad Seliktar, after meeting up with them at the Angoulême Festival in 2009.  I even started a page on Stephen [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Festival fever

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

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It would seem that with the coming of spring, festivals all over Europe awake from their hibernation and start blooming again (hmm, that simiile didn’t quite work the way I had intended).  To wit : The festival of Bastia, On the French island of Corsica, kicks off the season on March 31st.  Until April 3rd, [...]

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From our continental correspondent: Translation, please – or – Music to my eyes

Friday, March 25, 2011

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Cleet Boris is the creative alias of Hubert Mounier, a French singer-songwriter and former singer of the alternative pop band, L’Affaire Louis’ Trio. Boris is also a very gifted cartoonist, with a style that is very much within the Clear Line – Atom Style tradition. But, as the song goes, music was his first love, [...]

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Blake & Mortimer – getting (a little) better each time I read one…

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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The Adventures Of Blake & Mortimer: The Sarcophagi Of The Sixth Continent – Part 1 By Yves Sente and André Juillard Cinebook A quick recap - Mortimer’s the beardy nuclear physicist, Blake’s the dashing agent of MI5, and through a series of 11 volumes, from 1950 to 1971, their creator Edgar P. Jacobs set them against [...]

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From our continental correspondent – New Smurfs Failer…

Friday, March 18, 2011

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OK, so this year, two prime Belgian comics will be getting a 3D animation treatment.  When it comes to the Tintin movie, all visuals are closely guarded, and only released one tiny little bit at a time.  With the Smurfs, the producers are a little more daring : after a first teaser, which hardly featured [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Alph-art finally in English

Thursday, March 17, 2011

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Fans are a strange and curious lot.  They never have enough of a good thing, and if necessary, they’ll go and create their own missing story featuring their favourite characters.  Tintin fans are no different – you’d think that 22 books (23 if you count The Soviets) would suffice, especially with at least half of [...]

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From our Continental Correspondent – Sex and the French, a specialist testifies

Friday, March 11, 2011

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(cover to La sexualité des Français by and (c)  Georges Wolinski, published Drugstore/Artes Editions) French BD enfant terrible (even though he’s already 77 years old) Georges Wolinski (NB – link is in French) has a new book out : La Sexualité Des Français de De Gaule à Sarkozy (French Sexuality from De Gaulle until Sarkozy, [...]

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An Angoulême parody

Friday, March 11, 2011

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BoDoi has a post up on the BD exhibition at Angoulême which shows off parodies of famous comics from Europe and the US, from Cowboy Henk to Peanuts (channeling Kafka no less!) to a very naughty version of the Smurfs. Go and have a browse through them for a good giggle! The exhibition runs until [...]

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From our continental correspondent – festival update for March !

Thursday, March 3, 2011

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So, everybody’s recovered from last month’s Angoulême extravaganza ?  Then it’s time to get back in gear and get ready for some more conventionalising and festivalisation !  To wit : This week, from the 2nd until the 6th of March, the Italian city of Bologna is all abuzz with the new edition of the Bilbolbul [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Come to Paris, see the (Flemish) comics

Thursday, February 24, 2011

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We may not have had a government for a world-record-beating period of time now, but at least we Belgians sure know how to promote our comics abroad. At the request of the Flemish Literary Fund, cartoonist and illustrator Pieter De Poortere (a firm favourite with the FP blog crew) has designed a mural dedicated to [...]

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From our continental correspondent – You too can get to know George

Monday, February 21, 2011

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… and Romanian comics to boot ! Amongst the many hopefuls presenting their wares in Angoulême’s Nouveau Monde tent, which collected all small-press, alternative and off-the-mainstream publishers, were two cartoonists from Romania who were trying to prove that, yes, there are comics in Romania!   To that purpose, Hardcomics’ Sorina Vazelina and Matei Branea used a [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Nero speaks English

Thursday, February 17, 2011

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Good news for those among you who would like to know more about the rich Flemish comics culture.  One of our most beloved icons, Marc Sleen’s Nero, has just had one of his albums released in English.  The book, The Ghost of the Sand Street, was translated because many tourists who visited the Brussels Comics [...]

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Tintin in the Congo – in the raw!

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

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Benjamin at French comics site BoDoi points us to this fun take of the (somewhat controversial these days for its period portrayal of Africans and colonial attitudes) Tintin in the Congo. Except this Tumblr offering is Tintin au Congo a Poil (basically Tintin in the Congo in the nude, or in the raw). Yes, folks, [...]

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From our continental correspondent – OuBaPo exhibition in Bézançon

Monday, February 14, 2011

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As a follow-up to last year’s Pierre Feuille Ciseax festival,and as an appetizer for this year’s edition (which will be held from October 3rd to the 9th), the ChiFouMi group has built a grand overview exhibition on all things OuBaPo.  This show tries to give an overview of what OuBaPo stands for, what types of [...]

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