Tag: Comic
“Loire” by Etienne Davodeau, the “portrait of a river in comic strip”
What if the Loire, the last wild river in Europe, was the main character of a comic strip? This is what Étienne Davodeau does, who celebrates this natural environment, its…
Fabcaro, screenwriter of the latest Asterix album: “It’s a pleasure to have fun inside this playground”
The white iris, this is the title of the latest adventures of Asterix the Gaul, which comes out this Thursday. For 65 years and through the forty albums released since…
With Matthias Arégui, painting is funny
“The Necromanchian” by Matthias Arégui tells us about the horrors of artistic creation with humor and breathtaking graphic eclecticism. It’s an album that makes you see all the colors. It…
Zelba, author of the comic strip “The Great Incident”: “The canvases are a little empty without naked women”
What if one fine day the naked women in the paintings and sculptures of the Louvre disappeared from view? Called by insiders “The Great Incident”, this unprecedented phenomenon will force…
Hergé, Tintin and the clear line, itinerary of an eternal work
Georges Rémi, better known as Hergé, died on March 3, 1983. Forty years later, his work remains admired by all comic book lovers, from 7 to 77 years old. The…
Belgians pay tribute to the “Journal Tintin”, a cult comic book magazine
This Friday, Belgium is celebrating the 77th anniversary of the Journal Tintin, which was first published in September 1946. The success has never wavered with a circulation which reached 300,000…
Jordan Mechner, prince of storytelling
In the Mechner family, it’s a lot of strumming, sometimes on the typewriter, sometimes on the computer, sometimes on a real piano to strum Schubert. From generation to generation, it…
Sébastien Vassant, author of the comic strip “La fabrique des Français”
Telling the recent history of France also means taking into account the contribution of immigrants of different origins and telling the rejection they suffered at different times. This is what…
Comics: Florent Silloray retraces the “completely crazy” story of the filming of “Apocalyse Now”
It is one of the most cult films in the history of cinema. A grandiose fresco on the Vietnam War. But the history of its manufacture also marked Hollywood: typhoons,…
From a comic book to an internship offer: the globalization of youth
Urban Comics, a subsidiary of Dargaud created in 2011, specializes in the publication of comic books published in the United States by DC Comics, one of the largest comic book…