Tag: French comics
Official Selections for the Angoulême Prize announced; Cristin wins Goscinny
This afternoon, the Official Selections for the big prize at the 2019 FIBD in Angoulême were announced, along with prize nominees. The prizes -...
Review: Brotherhood as artistic evolution in ‘Piero’
Edmond Baudoin is a relatively obscure figure in America, looming under whatever radar we have that detects French cartoonists. As explained in Matt Madden’s...
INTERVIEW: Sébastien Samson went the distance for MY NEW YORK MARATHON
French cartoonist Sébastien Samson's graphic novel about running in the New York Marathon shows the universal language of the graphic novel.
Prequel to Popular French Comic Coming from Andy Diggle, Shawn Martinbrough, and Jock
Digital comics purveyor ComiXology and French indie publisher Delcourt Group are teaming up to give readers a glance at the events that preceded Christophe Bec’s PROMETHEE series.
Review: Any of us could be ‘The Strange’
I’ve never been able to wrap my head around the anger directed toward undocumented immigrants, and the escalation of that topic hasn’t helped me...
Review: The gorgeous ‘A Sea of Love’ is both epic and intimate
Unfolding in total silence, from a script by Wilfrid Lupano, and with absolutely breathtaking art by Grégory Panaccione, A Sea of Love inserts broad...
Review: ‘Song of Aglaia’ puts a complicated, heady feminist spin on tired old myths...
Taking the traditional tropes of myths and legends and turning them on their heads, Song of Aglaia has French cartoonist Anne Simon trace the fairy...
PREVIEW: Seeking the Creator of Little Nemo in McCAY
Titan Comics previews the fall release of the possibly true tale of innovative cartoonist Winsor McCay.
Review: Charting homophobia’s personal toll in ‘Luisa: Now and Then’
We all have things we’d like to explain to our teenage selves, and I have a feeling the older we get, the more we...
Review: Cyril Pedrosa’s stunning vision of ‘Portugal’
In America, extended families that are defined by alienation seem to be the result of dysfunction more than anything else, but I’ve found that...
Review: ‘It Don’t Come Easy’ not hard to enjoy
The Angouleme-winning Monsieur Jean series by Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian is celebrated here with It Don’t Come Easy, a collection of some of...
Review: French surrealist Nicole Claveloux celebrated in new collection
Compiled of stories from the 1970s, The Green Hand and Other Stories presents for the first time translated into English the work of French...
