Tag Archive | "Fanfare/Ponent Mon"

My Mommy is in America and She Met Buffalo Bill

Monday, April 16, 2012

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Jean Regnaud and Emile Bravo’s lovely but bittersweet My Mommy is in America and She Met Buffalo Bill (translated into English by Fanfare/Ponent Mon), has been made into a 75-minute animated film, reports Animationsfilme. The story concerns a young boy, Jean, just starting school and in a family with a busy father, absent mother and [...]

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A return to Summit of the Gods. Epic only starts to describe it….

Friday, August 26, 2011

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The Summit Of The Gods Volume 2 By Yumemakura Baku and Jirô Taniguchi Fanfare / Ponent Mon Again, to quote the famous words of George Herbert Leigh Mallory – “Because It’s There“. This was his response to why he wanted to climb Mt. Everest. And although it’s Mallory and Irvine’s famous disappearance in June 1924 that [...]

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Korea – As Viewed By 12 Creators

Thursday, January 6, 2011

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Korea – As Viewed By 12 Creators Fanfare – Ponent Mon Like the volume before it (Japan as viewed by 17 creators), this book on Korea exists as an idea – to look at a country famous for it’s comic traditions using the best of native and European comic artists – 6 Korean and 6 [...]

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The Summit Of The Gods – “Because It’s There”

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

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The Summit Of The Gods Volume 1 By Yumemakura Baku and Jirô Taniguchi Fanfare / Ponent Mon I’ve written before about how Manga scares me. Not because it’s unreadable (far from it), not because there’s nothing good (far, far from it) but because there’s simply so much of it and I often don’t know where to [...]

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Frankfurt Book Award for My Mommy

Saturday, October 9, 2010

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My Mommy is in America and she met Buffalo Bill from Fanfare/ Ponent Mon, already three times a bridesmaid in the Eisner Awards, has finally made it to the altar and on Friday 8th October was awarded the prestigious German Youth Literature Prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Congratulations to all involved, much deserved for [...]

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From our Continental Correspondent – Willy Linthout missing SPX

Saturday, September 19, 2009

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The Small Press Expo, which will be held over Saturday  September 26th  and Sunday September 27th in Bethesda, Maryland, had announced Willy Linthout as one of the main guests of this year’s gathering, along with mini-comix king John Porcellino. (the poster art for SPX 2009 by Gahan Wilson) We’ve written about Linthout before on the [...]

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