In place of the title, there are six numbers and you try and read them. But if they convey some pluralities, which are those ? You read them but what do they mean ? Seventy three thousand three hundred and four, twenty three, four thousand one hundred fifty three, six, ninety six, eight, a series based on [...]

L’Eprouvette is dead, long live L’Eprouvette. Initially a collection, before turning into a criticism periodical over three imposing volumes, it has come back to being a collection without forfeiting its ambitions of providing a space for “theory, thoughts and discussions around comics”. To this “around”, Jochen Gerner answers with a “against”. Jochen Gerner is an [...]

For its 2006 edition, the Angoulême Festival rewarded Le Seuil with the Prize for Inheritance for Locas by Jaime Hernandez. Moreover, among the nominees were also Dargaud with the first volumes of The Complete Peanuts of Charles M. Shulz — all in all two major works, but through which was acknowledged (without saying it) the [...]

After Safari Monseigneur in 2005, Ruppert and Mulot are back in the Ciboulette collection. As in Safari, Panier de Singe is built around a representation device : in Safari, the two jaded and ironical reporters used to structure the successive portraits of colonial glory, and those two reporters appear again in Panier de Singe, attempting throughout [...]

“He lives where no one ever lived ! He does what no one ever did ! God bless all mankind, all men, all kinds ! Frank struggles while we sleep !” Eden in spite of it all Frank lives in a charming universe, relaxes in soft furniture, tends to his peaceful business in a unique little house topped with [...]