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Anthology

07
Dec
07

Polyominos

Anthology

The collected volume Polyominos presents pages that were exhibited during the 14th “Quinzaine de la Bande Dessinée de Bruxelles”, in May 2007. Those pages were created following a simple formal constraint : each artist was to design first a silent page built of 20 black and white panels (organized in five strips of four square panels […]

07
Sep
07

40075km comics

Anthology

Ye gods, the huge thing. How to address it ? By the numbers ? Like any press-release copist ? So — in exchange for your twenty-nine euros and fifty cents, you will receive a thick volume of two hundred millimiters by four hundred, with a thickness of fourty millimeters, weighing in at one thousand seven hundred and fifteen […]

25
May
07

Corée

Anthology

One year after the publication of Japan (subtitled “Japan as viewed by 17 creators”), Casterman keeps the same formula to propose Corée (or “Korea as viewed by 12 creators”) — using an almost identical design, from the authors mentioned in arc of circle to the illustrated duo “child + animal” as cover. The interior sees […]

27
Apr
07

Japan

Anthology

In October 2001, Frédéric Boilet was launching in Tokyo the “Nouvelle Manga” event, part discovery (through a series of exhibits around the Ueno museum), part meeting with a few invited French authors — David B., Fabrice Neaud, Loïc Néhou. If it is regrettable that a mini polemic arose around an awkwardly-written Manifest, Fréderic Boilet’s sustained […]