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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]