Krent Able Entretien de Rat Devil

Ten years before the Best Album award for NonNonBâ at the Angoulême Festival, in the pages of Le Monde Diplo, Pascal Lardellier painted a frightening portrait of the yellow peril, exhorting to take arms to defend our endangered homeland, and concluded : “There is no minor cultural fight that deserves indifference or resignation. Manga should make […]

Following his wide success with his comic strip series Azumanga Daioh, Azuma Kiyohiko strikes again with YotsubaTo ! in a more traditional format. Made popular overseas thanks to its tv-adaptation, the Azumanga Diaoh manga had also found its public — in spite of its typically Japanese format using four-panel vertical strips (called yon-koma), but thanks to […]

Immediately recognizable with her sexy dolls straight out of a Powerpuff Girls episode with a Russ Meyer-makeover, Mizuno Junko has steadily build, if not a career, at least a reputation — so much that when she attended the 2005 edition of the Angouleme Festival, animation magazine Animeland introduced her as the “morbid pin-up of underground […]

On one hand, Louis au ski is one of those classic stories relying on the principle of the crossing trajectories : a series of characters meet, follow the same path for a moment, before their respective trajectories take them in different directions according to their own tropism. A recurring picture in the book could serve as […]

With six volumes of the no-holds-barred Bambi, Kaneko Atsushi indeniably established himself as one of the foremost punk artists. Obviously unwilling to get back in the fray, he followed up with SOIL, a story built on atmosphere and mystery. Encounter with a manga-ka on the fringe. Xavier Guilbert : Obviously, your drawing style is always what […]

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 […]

So far, Frédéric Poincelet had remained a minutious chronicler of the intimate, somehow distant from the other authors published by Ego comme X, most likely because of a scarce production — after all, his official bibliography counts no more than seven books and a handful of pages scattered between 1998 and 2002. And since — […]

Tôkyô, paradisiacal ? One might be led to believe so, walking down the streets with Arima Rikuto — young, lazy, wealthy and handsome, and sporting an impressive gallery of female successes. From the Rainbow Bridge overseeing the bay to the “Blue Note” in Aoyama, the whole city seems to be made for nonchalant walks, romantic afternoons […]