[Podcasts] Exploring Bédé #2
Now online! Recording these is becoming a highlight of my month, along with seeing how seasoned comics-readers are now starting to discover and explore bédé.
Now online! Recording these is becoming a highlight of my month, along with seeing how seasoned comics-readers are now starting to discover and explore bédé.
I know it’s been quiet ’round here over the last week, so here’s a quick update on what’s being worked on for future additions to the site:
More translations for M. Mardi-Gras Descendres, but I’m going to wait until I have at least a few more pages up before I update the pdf;
A full review of [...]
Recorded the second in the Exploring Bédé series of podcasts with Bryan Deemer last night. The focus this time is the Trondheim/Sfar magnum opus Donjon (Dungeon in English) — easily among my favourite series, and one of the most ambitious world-building projects in the history of the Ninth Art.
The podcast features a lengthy interview [...]
Another bit of catch-up… this is currently out in English translation from Archia Studios, and was pointed out by somebody in the podcast forums as being excellent. I’m a bit disturbed by the translation — “Long Feu,” the title of the first volume, was translated as “Long Fire,” which totally misses the play on words [...]
This, and today’s other capsule review (Le Tueur) are more catch-up than anything: not new series, but remarkable ones that are also available in English. First up: Blacksad.
I am not a furry fan, and I’m not a noir-warmed-over fan (although I am fond of innovative noir spins, like Brick and The Big Lebowski). But I’ve [...]
This will be edited and updated as time goes by, but somebody today (June 13, 2008) has just asked how to find bande dessinée in the ‘States that isn’t available through Amazon.ca.
A good question, especially since Amazon’s bédé selection kind of sucks.
With not enough research behind me, my off-the-cuff answer is that your [...]
Right here. This podcast focuses on a general overview of bédé (also the subject of the first Comics Now! column, due out in early July). Obviously, it gets into more detail than the column can, and is evidently a bit chattier.
Post some comments on the Comic Geek Speak site if you like the podcasts; encouragement [...]
The fourth (and last, damn it) volume of Larcenet’s absolutely fantastic series (the first two volumes are available in English as “Ordinary Victories” from NBM, which is a better title translation than I would have thought of) proves that the law of diminishing returns does not apply to Combat Ordinaire.
Each book is better than [...]
This is the script (19 pages to date, but the PDF will be updated as progress continues) for Volume 1 of Monsieur Mardi-Gras Descendres in English. If you’d like to order the book and live in North America, Biblairie GGC seems to be a good bet for ordering the first volume, but they only take [...]
There’s an interesting overview of comics from a broad arts perspective up at ArtsEditor, written by Christopher Panzer, right now. It sort of glosses over the three broad global comics traditions, and I’m not sure how seriously I can take something that says
Frank Miller’s hardcover 300 (1998) …[is one of the] most recent examples of [...]