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If the invitation of Daniel Clowes at the Angoulême Festival was an event of note, it was even more symbolical as it marked in a way the return of the American author to the comic book medium. With the publication of Mister Wonderful in the Funny Pages of the New York Times (between September 2007 […]

More than a few similarities could be brought up between Dash Shaw and Craig Thompson. Both were unanimously hailed as “young prodigies” by American critics. They both acknowledge international influences (Japanese and European), they both play with the narrative flow and show a lot of sensitivity when evoking human relationships. Yet, comparison stops there. While […]

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. For the […]

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 — […]

October 26, 1998 : James Kochalka decides to take on the challenge of producing a 4-panel daily strip, based on his daily life. Ten years later, this “cartoon diary” is still running alongside the artist’s other projects, withstanding two births and marveling at the little things of family life. An exploration of the intimate. Nicolas Verstappen : […]

Kevin Huizenga’s work presents a peculiar and almost outdated charm. Glenn Ganges, his seminal character, could belong to the great era of the Belgian ligne claire, with his round nose and simple dots for eyes. Using this simple vessel, Kevin Huizenga explores in turn strange adventures, chosen moments of the quiet daily life of an American thirty-something and vast exegetic or scientific ponderings. The overall coherency that emerges from the Curses collection indeed reveals the know-how of an author interested in authenticity, overcoming the first impression of heterogeneity.

Having unsuccessfully approached Marvel, DC Comics and the RAW anthology, Chester Brown decided to join the then-blooming self-publishing crowd in the early 80s. When the first issue of Yummy Fur is released in 1983, he has no idea he is about to start a body of work that will influence all his generation and the […]