Tag Archive | "European Comics"

Valerian & Laureline – The Land Without Stars.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

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Valerian And Laureline Volume 3: The Land Without Stars Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières Cinebook When a rogue planet threatens a new Human colony, Valerian and Laureline are sent to investigate and discover a barren, rocky surface… and a whole world beneath it! The people who live inside Zahir have never seen the stars. Divided [...]

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From our continental correspondent – summer’s coming, time for some festivals!

Thursday, May 24, 2012

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It has been a while coming, but with summer finally arriving here are a few pointers for upcoming comics festivals on the Continent for the coming month or so. We’ve just had the 31st edition of the Arctic Comics Festival in Kemi, Finland, where Christophe Blain was the guest of honour. Also present were tintinologist [...]

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Spirou and Fantasio… reporters and adventurers

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

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Spirou & Fantasio: Running Scared Written by Philippe Vandevelde (Tome), illustrated by Jean-Richard Geurts (Janry) Cinebook Spirou and Fantasio are hired by a doctor to escort some of his patients. Their ailment? An apparently incurable case of the hiccups. His solution: Send them on the most insane adventure ever and scare the hiccups out of [...]

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SPOOKS – Weird Enforcement Special Team

Monday, May 21, 2012

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SPOOKS Volume 1: The Fall Of Babylon By Xavier Dorison and Fabien Nury, art by Christian Rossi Cinebook “1895. Members of the East Coast elite have died under mysterious circumstances. To investigate this delicate problem, Richard Clayton—against the wishes of the President—calls upon a man named Morton Chapel for his unorthodox methods and peculiar associates. [...]

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Largo Winch – the priceless thriller that’s all about the money…

Thursday, May 17, 2012

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Largo Winch Volumes 9 & 10: The Price Of Money & The Law Of The Dollar Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Franq Cinebook Okay… here’s the blurb… The Price Of Money: “A man shoots himself in front of Largo, live on TV. He was a guest on a financial talk show who had lost his [...]

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Lucky Luke – Volume 34 – gags over plot this time…

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

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Lucky Luke Volume 34 – The Daltons; Always On The Run By Goscinny and Morris Cinebook “A general amnesty puts the Daltons back on the streets, something Lucky Luke isn’t happy about. And, to make it worse, they seem to have become model citizens. It’s all an act, though, and it doesn’t take long for [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Francois Schuiten’s Mood of the Past

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

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François Schuiten’s never been one for straightforward comic work. His long-running series, Les Cités Obscures (with Benoît Peeters) always involved intricate imagery combined with almost labyrinthine storytelling. Just doing a comic doesn’t seem to be enough of a challenge for Schuiten. Recently, Schuiten has been in the news with new productions that are perfect examples [...]

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Comics from Le Monde Diplomatique

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

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(some frames from Cyril Pedrosa’s contribution to Le Monde Diplomatique) Last year Wim told us about the respected French current affairs journal Le Monde Diplomatique partnering up with Homecooking Books to produce a Hors Série, where their normal thoughtful analyses in prose were replaced by a range of works in comics form by a wide [...]

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XIII Volume 12 – The Trial

Friday, May 11, 2012

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XIII Volume 12 – The Trial By Jean Van Hamme and William Vance Cinebook Called back to the USA by the frantic government, McLane and Jones discover that General Carrington has kidnapped Wally Sheridan, President of the United States! Holed up in a secret base he’s turned into a fortress, Carrington intends to put Sheridan [...]

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Beautiful Bilal, Bargain Bilal – The Hunting Party

Sunday, April 22, 2012

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We don’t do this very often, in fact we don’t do it as often as we should, but this is one of those times we’re going to jump up and down in front of you telling you about a GREAT BARGAIN OVER AT THE FPI WEBSTORE that you should really be taking advantage of. The [...]

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Paris – ab-fab fashionistas in the city

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

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Paris By Maarten Vande Wiele Knockabout Faith sings, Hope dreams of making it as a model, and Chastity just wants to be rich and famous. And they’re all looking to find it in fashionable Paris, where everything is designer, everything luxuriates in glamour, everyone parades in head to toe couture (all neatly recorded in the [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Eurocomics at the Eisners

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

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Traditionally the Eisner awards are pretty much a US only affair, inasmuch that a “Best US Edition of International Material” (and a similar one for Asian comics) was thought up to celebrate the wealth of comics beyond the American borders.  Still, this year a good few Eurocomics managed getting nominated for an award in the [...]

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Musician Batmans….

Sunday, April 8, 2012

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A little bit of very strange comics stuff from Poland, courtesy of Piotr Nowacki: “I thought that I’d show you one more interesting thing from Polish comics web. On one of the Polish comic sites is a gallery of 80 illustrations with… musician Batmans.” Yes.. musician Batmans. Ridiculous. Brilliant. We’ll start off with one from Piotr: [...]

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Art for Moebius…..

Sunday, March 18, 2012

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Jean Giraud / Moebius / Gir ….. three names, one incredible man. Last weekend the comic world received the terrible news that we’d lost an innovative genius. And all week we’ve been seeing various pieces of art go up online to pay tribute. Here’s a selection. I’m sure no-one invoved here would mind me saying [...]

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Stripburger works!

Friday, March 16, 2012

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The next issue of the Stripburger anthology, which is based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, but operates on an international scale, will be focused on the theme of work.  Once work was what you did to survive, to bring food on the table, or to express yourself.  Nowadays the boundaries between work time and free time seem [...]

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