Tag Archive | "Drawn & Quarterly"

Björk singing for the Moomins

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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(Björk, image borrowed from her website gallery) Icelandic singer and all round engima Björk is working with Sjón to create a song especially for a new film being made by the Finnish Filmkompaniet studio and due next year, “Moomins and the Comet Chase”. Hard to think on someone more suitable to sing for a Moomin Troll! [...]

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Yoshihiro Tatsumi interviewed

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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Chris Randle managed to get time to chat with Yoshihiro Tatsumi, creator of the acclaimed D&Q titles Push Man, Good-bye, Abandon the Old in Tokyo and the recent A Drifting Life, at this year’s TCAF (via Chris at Comics 212): “CR: You mentioned Tezuka, and there’s a few times in the book where he’s depicted as [...]

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Maurice Vellekoop – swoon.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

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(Maurice Vellekoop ilustration from LA Times article on Graphic Novel reader) Maurice Vellekoop draws beautiful, colourful and flamboyant things. He could draw a rubbish bin and make it gorgeous. There’s sadly very little available work for you to buy – but his commercial work does pop up occasionally – like this fashion spread from National Post [...]

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Chocolat de Paul!

Saturday, July 25, 2009

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Peggy at the D&Q blog posts this scrumptious image up of not one, not two, but three different chocolate bars themed around Michel Rabagliatti’s Paul. Chocolate and cool comics art, two of the finest products of human civilisation… Oh, I’d be more than happy to ‘review’ some… On a strictly professional basis, you understand, in [...]

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Moomin: The Complete Comic Strip Volume 4

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

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Moomin: The Complete Comic Strip Volume 4 by Tove Jansson Drawn & Quarterly I genuinely can’t remember if I’ve ever read any Moomin tales before or whether I just know of them in some pop culture generalist knowledge base. I may have read them as a child, picking them up along with Tintin and Asterix books in the [...]

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