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From our continental correspondent – Spiegelman in Paris
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, [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Esprit BD
Friday, February 3, 2012
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 [...]
Continue reading...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, [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Spiegelman conquers Angouleme
Friday, January 27, 2012
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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Counting down to Angouleme : Spiegelman speaks
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
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The tradition dictates that whoever wins the Grand Prix at the Angoulème Comics Festival, is invited to curate the next edition of the Festival. This means that he or she will probably get a major retrospective exhibition (which are always a treat in their own right), but also that the festival will focus on particular [...]
Continue reading...10 best of 11
Thursday, January 5, 2012
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As is customary, our beloved editor inquired about what we thought were the best books of the past year. ”Just pick your top three or something”, he said. I picked 10. It’s been that kind of year, so sue me. For good reference, I divided them into neat little departments. The Dept of Epic Awesomeness [...]
Continue reading...More news from the ACBD
Monday, December 19, 2011
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From the shortlist for the 2012 edition of its annual award, the French ACBD (the Association of Comics Critics and Journalists) has given the prize (the Grand Prix De la Critique) to the graphic novel, Polina, by Bastien Vivès. Earlier this year, the book was also awarded the Libraries Prize in France. We wrote about [...]
Continue reading...Zoe in English
Friday, December 16, 2011
Spanish illustrator and cartoonist FH Navarro is creator Sushi Online magazine and of the beautiful Dos Hojas, which I described as “one of the most poetic and thoughtful little comics I’ve read lately” – see my review here. He has started a new webcomic, Zoe. This time, “I don’t speak Spanish” is no excuse for checking it [...]
Continue reading...Herge’s Heir
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
As is probably well-known by now, Stephen Spielberg managed to successfully turn Tintin into a movie. Alan Baran, an intimate friend of Hergé’s and his last private secretary, was also the man who conducted the first negotiations with Spielberg. And he liked what he saw. UK and European audiences have already enjoyed the film and [...]
Continue reading...Comics at NATO
Monday, December 12, 2011
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This coming Tuesday, December 13th, is the 30th anniversary of the declaration of martial law in Poland, which was essentially one of the first events that ultimately led to old Soviet Block falling apart some ten years later, and liberal thinkers across the globe announcing the End of History. Since it also ultimately led to [...]
Continue reading...The new Vanistendael is very promising
Thursday, December 8, 2011
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Only a year ago, SelfMadeHero published the English edition of Flemish cartoonist Judith Vanistendael‘s moving graphic novel, Dance By The Light Of The Moon (which was an official “Sélection” for the prestigious Angoulême Festival, usually a great mark of quality comics work), a gripping story about life, love, differences and similarities and how you never [...]
Continue reading...Expocomic announces 2011 winners
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
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At the Expocomic festival in Madrid, Spain, the winners of the 2011 awards were announced last week. The lifetime achievement award went to Esteban Maroto, who is probably best known for his work for various Warren Publications magazines, such as Eerie, Creepy and Vampirella. He is also credited with the design of Red Sonja’s [...]
Continue reading...New Swarte
Monday, November 28, 2011
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I Love Joost Swarte (warning, Flash heavy site). The capital “L” in the previous sentence is not a typo – I Love his work, and especially the very carefully designed small press books he produces for various occasions. One of these is a small leporello-type booklet which was originally published to celebrate the National Readers [...]
Continue reading...Best of the year, a la Francaise
Thursday, November 24, 2011
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The French take their comics very seriously. Every year the 65 members of the Association of Comics Journalists (or ACBD) select a number of books from the deluge that typically appears between November 1st and October 31st. This list is then trimmed down to a shortlist, which contains a mere 15 books, which are “comics, [...]
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