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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 […]

Ce que je sais de ma maman is a simple and brilliant children’s book, at least, in appearance. The pages are laid out in a recognizable fashion, invariably repeating the same rhythm and construction : on one side, a young girl tells us about her wonderful mother, on the other, a corresponding image that illustrates her […]

For a time, I thought that this interview would not happen. First scheduled during the Angoulême Festival, this encounter went through a long string of missed opportunities throughout 2007, to the point I was beginning to accept it as fate. So it was without much hope that I walked up to Charles Burns after a […]

Reader my friend, reader my love, We are back with what is becoming the yearly installment of an article full of figures and trend considerations — a topic that du9 usually steers clear from, more attracted that we are by narrative arcs, witty lines and poetic perspectives than sales curves and others points of progression. […]

At first look, The Red Snake is a horror story which appeal resides primarily in Hino Hideshi’s graphic vision. Far from the classicism of Umezu Kazuo, lacking the meticoulous approach of Itô Junji, opposed to the esthetic preoccupations of Maruo Suehiro, Hino Hideshi delivers a raw vision deeply rooted in grotesque, bringing out a gallery […]

Shaun Tan was born in 1974 and grew up in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. He graduated from the University of WA in 1995 with joint honours in Fine Arts and English Literature, and currently works full time as a freelance artist and author, with collaborations with animation studios like Blue Sky Studios […]

For some reason, Isabelle Pralong’s name lingered with me. Yet, the last time I had heard of her, it was back in 1999 when she had released her Ficus at Atrabile, a short slice-of-life organized around the plant of the title. Since, nothing in the comic field, she had moved to illustration works and children’s […]

It had to happen : Soleil, which has yet to shy from a licensed product for its leading brand (t-shirts, badges or caps are already available on the official store), has recently released the first volume of its “Lanfeust manga”, with a healthy dose of superlatives and exclamation marks : “With hybrid and super-dynamic story and graphics, […]