Reader my friend, reader my love, For the fourth year in a row, du9 takes the opportunity of the Angoulême Festival to explore the dark realms where economic bubbles, trend curves, profitability points and other growth perspectives roam. Welcome to a new “Numerology” — also know as the art of making numbers talk. [Reader my […]

Resolutely atypical, Tori Miki is about to celebrate in 2009 thirty years of career in manga. After debuting in Shônen Champion (and receiving its 12th Award for New Talent), he has kept on building a body of work that now counts over sixty volumes, sending his strange impassive characters from science-fiction to nonsensical stories — […]

“The cat-eyed boy”. Forty years later, the idea resonates with all the retro charm of the most outrageous inventions of the wildy imaginative sixties. And indeed, the (superb) covers of those two volumes wouldn’t seem out of place among movie posters of the time. Having established his solid reputation as “master of horror” in the […]

“The manga that inspired Kill Bill” — well, that’s what they say in the introduction, so that must be true. It might be true, mind you, but reading those two thick volumes that kick off the “Kana Sensei” collection, the connection between the two is tenuous at best, and could be summed up with this […]

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 […]

Prominently featured in Udagawa Takeo’s book, Manga Zombie, George Akiyama is introduced as “the unstoppable king of trauma manga”. Ashura in particular, did incur his first scandal — when, as he had just concluded his gag-mang series Horafuki Don-Don in the pages of the Shûkan Shônen Magazine, he kicked off without missing a step in […]

While fantasy has often been the domain of the most adolescent and immature aspirations, for over a dozen years Linda Medley has been meticulously building her universe of ordinary adventures. And if the second series is still going on, the imposing collection of Castle Waiting published by Fantagraphics in mid-2006 was a quiet event in […]

With his fragile line, his magical stories and the nostalgia for a lost Japan, Igarashi Daisuke is one of the authors revealed by IKKI magazine, the experimentation laboratory of Japanese publisher Shôgakkan. Of course, defying all expectations, Igarashi Daisuke (a short but energetic and decided fellow) will answer in an incredibly fast flow of speech […]