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If Canadian artist Dave Cooper is now renown internationally for his paintings, let’s not forget that he has also produced graphic novels that have participated in establishing the genre as a rich, full-fledged media of expression. Ripple : a Predilection for Tina is indeed an impressive trip deep in the most tormented corners of the human […]

With Daddy’s Girl, Debbie Drechsler wrote an outstanding graphic novel. For Richard Sala, one of its many qualities is to be seen in the fact that Debbie, not being too well-versed in the history of comics, didn’t impose any limitations on herself or the form while she wrote about a topic as difficult as child […]

In place of the title, there are six numbers and you try and read them. But if they convey some pluralities, which are those ? You read them but what do they mean ? Seventy three thousand three hundred and four, twenty three, four thousand one hundred fifty three, six, ninety six, eight, a series based on […]

“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 […]