Tag Archive | "From our Continental Correspondent"

From our continental correspondent: Emile Bravo – Make children think

Friday, May 6, 2011

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When he was asked to do his own interpretation of Spirou, he returned to the venerable character’s origins. His Journal d’un Ingénu (Diary of an Innocent One) is widely regarded as the best Spirou story in years. Last year My Mommy Is In America And She Met Buffalo Bill (created with Jean Regnaud, and published [...]

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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 [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Arrugas made into an animated feature

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

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The celebrated Spanish graphic novel, Arrugas, by Valencian cartoonist Paco Roca (who recently got high praise for his El Invierno del Dibujante (The Winter of the Draftsman), is currently being made into an animated feature length film, slated for release in 2012. The book, which was given nearly every graphic novel and comic award going [...]

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From our continental correspondent: Comics Museum of Milan opens its doors

Monday, April 18, 2011

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Milan, the publishing capital of the Italy, and as such very instrumental in the birth and growth of the Fumetti, the Italian comic, is proud to present Wow!, its very own museum on the history and medium of comics. According to a report by BoDoï, the museum’s location previously functioned as a tram depot and [...]

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From our continental correspondent: Boulet shows how it’s done

Thursday, April 14, 2011

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(panels from the recent blog strip by and (c) Boulet) If you think you can draw, think again. French cartoonist, and king of the blog, Boulet (Gilles Roussel – French Wikipedia link) posted a video on Youtube showing how he created the February 8 strip for his blog – watch it, and be amazed at [...]

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From our continental correspondent: Alan Moore at Madrid University

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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As Álvaro Pons at La Cárcel de Papel announced earlier this week, the Fiction Theory and Rethoric Research Group of the Madrid Complutense University has chosen Alan Moore as their central theme for its second International Congress on 21st Century Story Tellers. The congress cites Moore  as the most brilliant comic writer of all time, [...]

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Bastia as if you were there…

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

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Those amongst us who were unable to attend the comic festival in Bastia this weekend, fear not !  Thanks to the good people of Bodoï, the French comics blog of choice, you can at least pretend you were there.  The past few days, they presented lavishly illustrated reports of all the important exhibitions. The main [...]

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Farm 54

Friday, April 1, 2011

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I dread the times when I’m suddenly confronted with my own tendency and talent for procrastination.  For years I’ve been meaning to do a samizdat translation of the graphic novel, Ferme 54 by Galit and Gilad Seliktar, after meeting up with them at the Angoulême Festival in 2009.  I even started a page on Stephen [...]

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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, [...]

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From our continental correspondent: Translation, please – or – Music to my eyes

Friday, March 25, 2011

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Cleet Boris is the creative alias of Hubert Mounier, a French singer-songwriter and former singer of the alternative pop band, L’Affaire Louis’ Trio. Boris is also a very gifted cartoonist, with a style that is very much within the Clear Line – Atom Style tradition. But, as the song goes, music was his first love, [...]

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From our continental correspondent – New Smurfs Failer…

Friday, March 18, 2011

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OK, so this year, two prime Belgian comics will be getting a 3D animation treatment.  When it comes to the Tintin movie, all visuals are closely guarded, and only released one tiny little bit at a time.  With the Smurfs, the producers are a little more daring : after a first teaser, which hardly featured [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Alph-art finally in English

Thursday, March 17, 2011

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Fans are a strange and curious lot.  They never have enough of a good thing, and if necessary, they’ll go and create their own missing story featuring their favourite characters.  Tintin fans are no different – you’d think that 22 books (23 if you count The Soviets) would suffice, especially with at least half of [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Daniel Lieske’s Wormworld

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

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Daniel Lieske is a German illustrator and cartoonist who’s currently working full time as a graphic artist in game development. In his spare time, he finds enough inspiration to create a wonderfully atmospheric and beautifully lit web comic like Wormworld Saga, which is currently unfolding in no less than seven languages. Judging from the first [...]

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Young talent to watch out for

Monday, March 14, 2011

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One of the best things about the Angoulême Festival (and you’ll have to excuse both my banging on about the festival, and the fact that I’m only coming back to it again now), is the Compétition Jeunes Talents, which every year brings together the best and brightest young cartoonists in the country.  Many of the [...]

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From our Continental Correspondent – Sex and the French, a specialist testifies

Friday, March 11, 2011

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(cover to La sexualité des Français by and (c)  Georges Wolinski, published Drugstore/Artes Editions) French BD enfant terrible (even though he’s already 77 years old) Georges Wolinski (NB – link is in French) has a new book out : La Sexualité Des Français de De Gaule à Sarkozy (French Sexuality from De Gaulle until Sarkozy, [...]

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