Tag Archive | "French"

Bilal at the Saint-Etienne book festival

Thursday, October 21, 2010

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French media site Culturebox has a short video up talking to the great Enki Bilal about being the master of ceremonies at the Saint-Etienne book festival. It’s in French, naturellement, so not much use if you don’t have much of a grasp of the language (must confess I struggled with my rusty French) but hey, [...]

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Sherlock – en Français

Saturday, September 11, 2010

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Many a time we’ve talked on here about some of the brilliant comics work coming out of Europe, especially the heartland of the Franco-Belgian comics scene that Wim reports on regularly for us. But it’s also nice to be reminded that not only do we have some brilliant comics creators working here, they’re so good [...]

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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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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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Bienvenue/welcome Lord Yoyo

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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Earlier this year Wim posted on the growth of the French language comics blogosphere (see here), which has now reached a level where even the holies of holies in the Francophone comics calendar, the Angoulème Festival, added a special award recognising online comics work. In his introduction to some of the more interesting French language [...]

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Emma Vieceli en Francais

Monday, August 3, 2009

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Emma Vieceli is rather delighted to be one of the contributors to a newly launched comic in France, Princesse Miya, which, as she notes gleefully, comes with free gifts! Tres bon, Emma!

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