Krent Able Entretien de Rat Devil

There is something of the symptomatic in the Little Nothings. Something that belongs to the misery of contemporary creation among the former pioneers of the French-speaking alternative. In the case of Lewis Trondheim, the disappointement is all the greater, especially in the autobiography genre. Coming back to his first try at it, Approximativement, is remembering […]

Does Alan Moore require any introduction ? Miracle Man, Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen — the man can boast an impressive bibliography, complete with a hefty dose of major and important works. Needless to say that the long-delayed conclusion to one of his cursed projects was an event […]

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 […]

“The sadness of the heart” — quite a theme for this collection from the Nishioka Keishi (litterally, brother-sister), explored along a dozen of strange little stories, driven by a peculiar narration. At first glance, one could think of it as childish, from the fragile art with its “flat” perspectives and the care given to patterns, […]

“Go, little book, and choose your world…” Rodolphe Töpffer, First words of Monsieur Jabot‘s foreword, 1831 Jérôme has no parents. He lives in an oriental palace with an old mentor who raised him. But time has come for him to set out and discover the world and find his own way. The backdrop is egyptian, […]

For about a decade and her debuts in Garô, Nananan Kiriko has built a body of work around silent suffering, rejected love, uneasy relationship, painting the portrait of modern young women in the making, who try to remain strong in spite of solitude or sadness. So don’t let yourself be misled by the pinkish cover […]

Having nothing to hide would make us transparent and invisible beings. But with too much flesh to belong to the first state, only the second seems possible. For scientists, invisibility would occur through projecting in front of oneself, on oneself, what one’s opaque body is hiding from the eyes of the ones watching. In a […]

Let’s make it clear right away — to the four volumes of the French edition by Delcourt, I prefered the superb American brick published by Vertical. Less expensive, with an impeccable print quality in a larger format, and wrapped in Chip Kidd’s elegant cover … what can we ask for more ? And it is with […]