Tag Archive | "France"

Moebius archive

Thursday, March 22, 2012

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The blog of respected French publisher Dargaud posts up some shots from a visit to their archives, yielding up some elements from early Moebius – under his Jean Giruad name – and showing the components that have to be slotted together to create a graphic novel, or I should say album here, especially back in [...]

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Comédie du Livre

Monday, March 12, 2012

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This year’s Comédie du Livre book festival in Montpellier, France, is celebrating British literature, with a focus on an area where our writers enjoy a much-deserved global reputation: science fiction and fantasy. Among the Brit SF&F writers attending Montpellier this year are Iain M Banks, Christopher Priest, Dan Simmons, Jonathan Stroud and Christopher Delaney and [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Spiegelman in Paris

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

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Co-Mix, the grand exhibition of his own life’s work that Art Spiegelman curated on the occasion of his presidency of the Angoulême Festival at the beginning of this year year (to much international acclaim), is going on the move.  from March 21st until May 21st you can visit the show, free of charge this time, [...]

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Joe Sacco at Angoulême

Thursday, February 23, 2012

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And another from FNAC’s uploads from the recent Angoulême festival in France, this time with the excellent Joe Sacco – again it is mixed language, the interviewer is in French, Sacco is in English, but even if you don’t speak French at all I’m sure you can follow the gist of the questions from Joe’s [...]

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Craig Thompson at Angoulême

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

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More video interview goodness from the FNAC crew at the recent Angoulême Festival in France, this time with Craig Thompson discussing Habibi and Blankets, again, like yesterday’s video with Eddie Campbell it is a mix of languages with the interviewer asking questions in French, Craig replying in English, but should be faily okay to follow:

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Eddie Campbell at Angoulême

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

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The FNAC crew has uploaded a short interview with the brilliant Eddie Campbell recorded recently at Angoulême – it’s in a a mix of languages, with the interviewer asking questions in French, Eddie responding in English as he discusses his work and influences, including some very interesting parts on his early work and why he [...]

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Paris Manga and SciFi Show

Friday, February 10, 2012

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Sarah McIntyre, along with Emma Vieceli, headed off last weekend to France for the Paris Manga and Sci-Fi Show – naturally Vern and Lettuce had to go along with them (and thankfully French chefs didn’t see them as ingredients for dinner!). As well as more of the cool Vern and Lettuce special strip about the [...]

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Knitting Angou! Or Weekend of the Woolly Wildflowers

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

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Okay, we’ve had more than a few reports on here from the recent Angoulême comics festival in France (see here), but here’s a wonderfully unusual one to point you towards, a torrid tale of teased yarn, sneaky undercover knitting, street art and comics at Europe’s most important bande dessinee bash. Yes, it could only be Deadly [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Esprit BD

Friday, February 3, 2012

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One of the most rewarding experiences at the Angoulême Comics Festival has to be the Pavillon des Jeunes Talents, the tent that showcases the best entries to the yearly competition for young cartoonists.  Every year, hundreds of young artists from all around the world send in a sample of their work, typically a three-to-four page [...]

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Angouleme – Sean’s French Diary

Thursday, February 2, 2012

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Continiung our reports from this year’s Angoulême comics festival  which Wim kicked off live from the event on Friday, today we have a special treat as the excellent Sean Azzopardi, now a confirmed veteran of the BD festival, kindly agreed to give us his take on Angoulême from the point of view of an independent [...]

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Images of Angouleme

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

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Good chum of the blog Sean Azzopardi was again at the Angoulême comics festival in France and he’s posted up a whole bunch of photographs so those of us who couldn’t go can at least have a glimpse of some of what it looked like:

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From our Continenal Correspondent: Angouleme – the best of the rest

Monday, January 30, 2012

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I didn’t go to any of the talks or interviews at Angoulême this year, partly because I didn’t feel like standing in line for hours, and partly because this year’s menu was plentiful enough. Just attending the many exhibitions took most of my time here. There was a very good show in the Comics Museum, [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Spiegelman conquers Angouleme

Friday, January 27, 2012

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I attended the comics festival of Angoulême a couple of times in the past, and even though the event generally has a fairly international feel to it, it’s always been a predominantly French affair, albeit with a good contingent of guests from other lands. With the presidency of Art Spiegelman however, it would seem that [...]

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24 hour comics in Angoulême

Friday, January 27, 2012

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Dan Berry has been over in Angoulême for several days before the start of the main part of Europe’s most important comics festival and regularly tweeting and posting online about his experiences, including this year’s 24 hour comics – or we should say 24 heures de la bande dessinee, which he notes had an incredibly [...]

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Counting down to Angouleme – the exhibitions

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

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One of the main reasons for going to the bande dessinee festival in Angoulême, next to bumping into some of your heroes in the street and ending up having coffee with them, are the exhibitions.  It seems the organisers are trying to crank it up a notch with every edition. Last year Art Spiegelman won [...]

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