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From our continental correspondent – Gary Panter Painted Paris
Illustrator and cartoonist Gary Panter, whose art has been described as expressionist new wave punk, recently had an exhibition in the Martel Galerie in Paris, with lots of sketches and paintings, a fair amount of Jimbo material and quite a lot of Smokestack strips. Even though the exhibition is already over, you can still check [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Les Requins Marteaux in dire financial straits
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
In a week when one of the major French independents announced its second start (albeit not without a certain personal drama – see yesterday’s post about L’Asso), another one is calling out for help. Les Requins Marteaux, purveyors of some of the most beautiful (or at least most colourful) books on the French market, by [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Jean-Christophe Menu leaves l’association
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
In a quite moving email sent around yesterday, Jean-Christophe Menu, president of the French independent comics powerhouse L’association, announced that he was leaving the company he helped create back in 1990. As the main reason for his decision, Menu implicitly refers to the social troubles that existed at the publishing house (see the full text [...]
Continue reading...Spanish and French – could comics be any more European?
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Forgive me if it seems a little odd to post a video which is in a mix of French and Spanish on an English language blog, but even if you can’t follow all of what is being said here it is quite interesting to see the universality of comics culture as Fernando Tarrancón, an editor [...]
Continue reading...The Brits in Europe: Dan Berry on Angoulême and Helsinki
Friday, May 6, 2011
Comics creator Dan Berry posts the first part of a very interesting article on the British comics in Europe, starting with his week at Angoulême, where he was involved in teaching and working with the maison des auteurs among other things. It makes very interesting reading contrasting the UK comics publishing scene with our very [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Draw! : France Vs Spain
Thursday, April 28, 2011
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Graphic concerts, a sort of multimedia performance with cartoonists or other graphic artists sharing the stage with musicians, have become a bit of a mainstay at comics festivals. At the 2011 edition of the Festival BD Pyrénées, which is appropriately held in the mountain range that separates France from Spain, a new twist was given [...]
Continue reading...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, [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Angoulême in video
Monday, February 14, 2011
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Media Comics give us a short video taster of some of the comics creators who were at the recent Angoulême BD festival in France: Un aperçu du FIBD d’Angoulême 2011 from Media Comics on Vimeo.
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Brits abroad in Angoulême
Friday, February 4, 2011
The Angoulême Festival is a smorgasbord of francophone comics (well, it is in France, so what do you expect ?). Still, there’s a sizeable British contingent around, from publishers to independent creators and (of course) fans, if you know where to look. We tracked a few of them down to the far corners of the [...]
Continue reading...Angoulême: Rob Jackson and Dan Berry’s take
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Writer and artist Rob Jackson was at Angoulême with fellow Brit Indy creators (those glorious B.A.S.T.A.R.D.S.!) and he’s posted up several blog posts back to back reporting on how it went, liberally illustrated with piles of photographs from all around the Festival, go have a look: (the BASTARDS at Angou, pic shamelessly borrowed from Rob [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent: Angoulême – the future of BD in the US
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
English-speaking public with very particular ideas about what comics should be. Or the Anglophone publishers in Angoulême. Alex Bowler from Random House had come to Angoulême looking for direct contacts. As a British publisher, he faces great competition from US firms, who often buy the rights to a book for the whole world and not [...]
Continue reading...I don’t search, I find – Antonio Parras’ last interview
Friday, January 21, 2011
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On June 2, 2010, Spanish cartoonist Antonio Parras (pseudonym for Juan-Antonio Parras Monlat, 1929-2010) passed away. Only a few months before, Roel Daenen, one of the contributors to the Flemish comic magazine Stripgids, had a long conversation with him, which proved to be the last interview Parras ever would give. The interview was published in [...]
Continue reading...Festivals in January? There can be only one
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Our monthly overview of comics festivals in Europe is a bit shorter than we would like it to be this time. However, it’s quite understandable – after all, who in his right mind is going to put up another festival in the same month as that behemoth of comics fests: the annual Festival de la [...]
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