Tag Archive | "From our Continental Correspondent"

From our continental correspondent – September is comic month in Amsterdam

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

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If you’re a comic buff and you were planning on a weekend in Amsterdam, September might be a good time to do so. The city which always has been associated with illustrators and cartoonists (and which since 1968 has been the home to one of the best comic stores in the entire world, Lambiek) has [...]

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From our continental correspondent: 20 years of Reprodukt

Monday, September 12, 2011

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Highly respected German comics publisher Reprodukt is celebrating its 20th anniversary in style. This is the German publisher of people like Charles Burns, Craig Thompson, Max, Adrian Tomine, Posy Simmonds, Dupu and Bernerian and basically everyone who’s anyone in the world of literary comics. They’re also the native language publishing house behind names like Mawil, [...]

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From our continental correspondent – JC Menu us alive and kicking

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

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After having been ousted as director of L’Association, one of the most important independent comics publishers in France, JC Menu did not simply go away to die in some corner quietly. He mainly regrouped and is now returning to publishing with a new venture, strikingly called “L’apocalypse”. In a short note, reprinted at Stephen Betts’ [...]

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A very animated Max

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

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In 1992, Spanish cartoonist Max (creator of the fantastic Bardin The Superrealist) created a video clip for the song Tierra by Spanish pop group Radio Futura.  Thanks to La Cárcel de Papel‘s Álvaro Pons, and while we’re waiting for the new Max book, which has been announced for the end of the year, we can [...]

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From our continental correspondent: Translation Please – Zazie

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

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When the mother of young Zazie wants to spend a weekend with her new boyfriend, she asks her brother Gabriël to look after the little girl.  Zazie looks forward to spending time with Gabriël, because he lives in Paris and she loves the Métro.  Much to her chagrin, though, the métro drivers are on strike.  [...]

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Pravda and snowy

Thursday, August 18, 2011

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Holy cow, there’s just too much comics intertextuality going on here ! Channeling the modus operandi perfected by Andy Warhol, in 2008 French cartoonist Jean-C. Denis created a portrait of Guy Peelaert‘s equally pop art heroin Pravda, holding that other famous Belgian female, Snowy. And all the while a quartet of angry or merely bewildered [...]

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Here’s some smurfy goodness…

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

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So you read the damning reviews of the Smurfs movie, and you at least felt some slight unease at the first glimpses of the blue dwarves in the trailer, and this has really brought you down.  Were these the cool cartoon characters you knew from when you were a kid ?   Could it be we [...]

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Rob Croonenborghs likes Zombies !

Friday, July 22, 2011

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With a title like Jesus hates Zombies : A Jurassic Kinda Life (215Ink), the third installment of writer Stephen Lindsay’s over-the-top survival epic, you at least have a comic that delivers what it promises.  Elaborating on the premise that any theme from popular culture gets better if you throw it together with a few random [...]

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Peyo in Paris

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

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Those among you who have a soft spot for the little blue dwarves that are the Smurfs, who are awaiting the upcoming Smurfs movie with dread in their hearts and would rather dwell on the fact that Smurfs creator Peyo originally created some actually pretty fine comics, and who happen to be in Paris, are [...]

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Comical protest

Monday, July 18, 2011

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This may be quite old news, but with the current financial climate and its effect on government spending (or increasing lack thereof) across pretty much every Western country on things that are deemed to be unnecessary, such as art or health care, it may be a source of inspiration. On July 4th, the creators of [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Translation, thanks : The Adventures of Hergé‏

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

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As always, this year’s Fall List from Drawn And Quarterly is a joy in and of itself (new Clowes, Seth, Tomine, Beaton and Barry collected! More Nipper!), but there’s one book that I would like to draw your attention to in particular : The Adventures of Hergé, by Jose-Louis Bocquet, Jean-Luc Fromental and Stanislas Barthelemy. [...]

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From our continental correspondent – News from Up North

Thursday, June 30, 2011

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Finnish comics have always been something of an enigma to me. The fact that the language is completely foreign may have something to do with that, but mostly it would seem to me that international promotion of Finnish comics, beyond the typical in-crowd, is a fairly low-key affair. Or rather was, because this year witnesses [...]

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News from the Tintinologists

Thursday, June 23, 2011

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With the Spielberg-Jackson movie slated for the end of the year, it would seem that all Tintin news these days is limited to standard American marketing and PR style fodder (this just in : Weta is preparing a series of limited-edition statuettes based on the movie’s characters, with Haddock being the first in line). Let’s [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Fantagraphics to publish classic Peelaert‏

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

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Good news for fans of vintage 60s pop material:  Fantagraphics (one of our favourite publishers) recently announced (in their own, “you have to find it if you’re really interested” kind of way, burying it deep in their site) that they have acquired the publishing rights for the English language editions for two classic albums by [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Gary Panter Painted Paris‏

Monday, June 13, 2011

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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 [...]

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