Tag Archive | "France"

OuBaPo is alive !

Monday, September 13, 2010

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OuBaPo, the Workshop for Potential Comics, is alive and kicking !  This philosophy or even aesthetic concept of comics as a result of games and constraints, originated in 1992 within the group of authors around the French publishing house, L’Association (with people like Gilles Ciment or Etienne Lécroart). It quickly found international following, more particularly [...]

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Le prix Ouest-France-Quai des Bulles shortlist

Thursday, September 9, 2010

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The ten nominated titles for Le prix Ouest-France-Quai des Bulles have been announced; my French isn’t the best but from the article it looks to me like the overall winner (it’s a jury panel-selected award from the looks of  it) can expect a healthy prize of 2000 Euros, plus their BD album being promoted by [...]

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Arts : Le Havre

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

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During the month of October, right from the 1st through to the 31st to be precise, the third edition of the Bi-annual Festival of Contemporary Art will take place in the French city of Le Havre. This edition will focus on the relationships between comics and contemporary art as they currently exist. The Festival acknowledges [...]

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Pierre Feuille Ciseaux: a laboratory of bande dessinée

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

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Julien kindly drops us a line from France to let us know about a whole week’s worth of comics events coming up in the historic Royal Saltworks of Arc et Senans this autumn. It’s the second edition of the Pierre Feuille Ciseaux event, which Julien describes as a “laboratory for  bande dessinée”. From Monday 27th [...]

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Guido Crepax coolness

Friday, July 16, 2010

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How utterly awesome is this? Belinda Contre Les Manges-Disques by a young Guido Crepax from 1967, although published in Charlie Mensuel #59 in 1973 according to the Muller-Fokker Effect site (which also gets serious sci-fi props for referencing the great John Sladek, one of my favourite writers). And as Mark Kardwell (whence came the link, [...]

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Comic Con France 2010

Friday, July 16, 2010

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As the San Diego Comic Con is about to go into full speed mode here’s some videos from the other side of the ocean with Undergram Comics’s video reports from the recent Comic Con France, featuring some top talent, including David Lloyd, Leinil Yu, Jim Mahfood, Frank Quitely and a supporting cast of alcoholic drinks [...]

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Bastille Day

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

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Since today is the 14th of July (le quatorze Juillet), which marks the Fête Nationale – more commonly known as Bastille Day in the Anglophone world – we thought that was a perfect excuse (not that we need one, usually) to celebrate some of the great comics work which comes out of the French language [...]

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From our continental correspondent – 14 BD for 14 Juillet ! (part 2)

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

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Continuing a selection of 14 French comics for the 14th (the first half is here), here are seven more insanely great French comics, starting now ! Monsieur Feraille by Winschluss and Cizo – If you combine a vitriolic feeling for satire, a fanatical knowledge of pop culture and an amazingly versatile graphical style, you get [...]

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From our continental correspondent – 14 BD for 14 Juillet ! (part 1)

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

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This week our French friends celebrate their Fète Nationale, traditionally remembering the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789, which set in motion the French Revolution.  Since we at FPI are constantly trying to get good French (and Belgian and other European) comics in the spotlight (Richard when they’ve been translated, me predominantly while hoping [...]

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French comics

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

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As you know we try our best to try and give a bit of coverage to comics outside the normal works we see (mostly from the UK and US), including some of the frequently fascinating (and often quite brilliant) comics work which comes out of Europe, too much of which, sadly, often doesn’t get translated [...]

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From our continental correspondent – the widsom of the crowd

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

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It would seem that the latest fad amongst the internet cognoscenti is the crowd.  The idea that, in the end, the best thing (whatever that may be) will be chosen by the most people, is, of course, one of the basic tenets of the whole current social media rave.  Recently, however, internet startups have been [...]

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From our continental correspondent – The Gripes of (digital) Wrath in France

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

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It would seem that the introduction of digital in a certain type of medium, whether it’s an artform, a news medium or a form of entertainment, never happens without some serious misunderstandings about who should reap the fabled benefits of that new opportunity.  Come to think of it, digital has got nothing to do with [...]

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Baru takes Grand Prix at Angoulême

Sunday, January 31, 2010

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Tom at The Comics Reporter announces that Hervé Baruléa – better known as Baru – has won the highly prestigious Grand Prix at the annual Angoulême comics festival in France, meaning he will be the president at next year’s festival. Tom also has a run down of other awards to emerge from what’s pretty much [...]

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Comix Influx at Angoulême

Thursday, January 28, 2010

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We’ve pointed you to the fine Comics Influx site several times before; for those who aren’t yet familiar with it, its a site dedicated to a subject close to our hearts, making some of the fab comics work coming out of Europe (and further afield) more accessible by sharing reader’s translations of foreign language graphic [...]

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From our continental correspondent – What I Will Miss In Angoulême This Year

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

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It’s end of January again, and in comicsland that means that the French town of Angoulême will once again be invaded by comics creators, publishers and fans, celebrating their favorite artform in all its glory (over the weekend of the 28th to 31st).  As much as I would have liked joining in the festivities, that’s [...]

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