French cartoonist and comic blogger extraordinaire Boulet just released his completed contribution to the 2010 edition of the 24 heures de la BD. It’s a very moving story about the loss of youthful innocence and about where our fantasies go when we grow up. It features pirates, monsters and it’s wordless, so there’s no reason why you shouldn’t check it out.
The new trailer for Luc Besson’s Adèle Blanc-Sec movie (based on Jacques Tardi’s bandes dessinées) finally shows some sneak peaks at the monsters, the mummies and the madmen. Looks quite promising !
USS Catastrophe’s Kevin H and Dan Zettwoch produced a seven-page story for the Riverfront Times on the stench that the city of St Louis sometimes seems to be drenched in. It’s a very enjoyable ramble on all kinds of things, featuring their signature know-it-all character Leon Beyond, the Wizard Of Trivia.
On Zettwoch’s blog, you can also take a little peek at the creation process of the strip.
At the Angoulème Festival last week, Le Figaro’s Olivier Delcroix asked three giants of European comics for a reintepretation of Mickey Mouse. Next to Enki Bilal (above), his blog also features the sketches by the Président of the 2010 festival, Blutch, and André Juillard. And another quickie by Bilal, which is really cute.
Over at the Covered project, Joe Jusko and Matt Kaufenberg have reimagined Fred Ray’s cover for Action Comics # 40 (DC 1941). I’m normally not a big Jusko fan, but damn, this kicks !
Rich Johnston reports that the miniature city Seth built during the creation of his graphic novel George Sprott, which was serialised in the New York Times, will be on display at the Museum London in Ontario, Canada. The fictional city of Dominion contains some of the buildings that were featured in the collected edition of George Sprott, along withthe the Royal Canadian Legion, St. Henri of the Woods Thrift Shop, the Canadian Toboggan Company and the Canada Tavern.
(thanks to Rich Pettus)
Comics inspiration where you wouldn’t expect it. On the left : Belgian electro DJ Dr Lectroluv, while on the right, Gold Key Comics’ Dr. Solar. Eee-rie !
I only have two possible explanations for this. Either Mike Mignola and/or Dark Horse desparately needed a second jacuzzi on the porch of their third house, or some deluded marketing maven thought it would be a good idea to promote an online gambling machine with a character from hell…
More on this abomination on the Vegas Partner Lounge website. But don’t say we didn’t warn you.
Daniel Merlin Goodbrey’s All Knowledge Is Strange is a welcome help in understanding the world, religion, literature and the meaning of life. As of today, Goodbrey’s also dispensing his wisdom about the country I live in.
It’s always nice to learn new things about something that you’ve been familiar with for 42 years…
(strip © Daniel Merlin Goodbrey)
Look, it’s Anita Pallenberg in St-Tropez in 1971. And look, what is she reading ?
(via Vintagephoto)
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