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Fantastic book. Between that and Alan's War somehow First Second stumbled into publishing translations of two of the best French comics of that time-period. They even did a nice job on the production
Wanted to show an example of what I mean WRT the lettering in Faune but I deleted the scans off my phone & they're no longer available on Anna's Archive... Basically he arranges the text for semantic and rhythmic purposes, as if it were a poem. Mid-sentence line-breaks! Varying justification!
A letter of Aristophane's to Dominique Hรฉrody. Absoluely mental handwriting I love it
Truly a phenomenal book. If I had to bet on NYRC picking up a book of his, it'd be that one. I'd hope they'd get Dean Sudarsky on it as well, because Aristophane does some really interesting things with how he arranges text in the caption boxes.
Conte and Faune were the main ones he thought were blasphemous, & I believe all the original art was burned by Aristophane himself. No Max Brod. It is curious, then, that Frรฉmok were able to reprint Faune & that they were supposedly working on a collection of his work. Maybe they have the rights?
Hopefully one day! Much of it can't even be reprinted in the French because he disavowed a lot of it as 'evil' after being seduced by a religious sect (as Menu described it). I emailed L'Asso about reprinting Comte Dรฉmoniaque and they said the estate forbade them from ever reprinting it
Absolutely gorgeous panel. Really impressive sense of scale considering how thick the brush he's using is
This book, Hors la Boxe, is the last book I needed to be able to write a long article for the blog on Philippe de Pierpont. This is a book about Boxing, it features writings by Philippe de Pierpont, interviews with boxers, and comics drawn by Jacques Faton
There's an almost English sensibility to the ink work and use of negative space here, reminiscent of Steve Yeowell or Nabiel Kanan
Aristophane's fully-developed style was much more busy than this
The cover and title page were drawn later, closer to publication. You can see his more detailed style and heavier ink work
Logorrhรฉe is Aristophane's earliest work. I had resigned myself to never finding a print copy of this before I found out Le Lรฉzard were selling copies on their site. It looks magnificent
Page from Les Sept Fantรดmes, which was serialised in Le Lรฉzard magazine in the '90s. I've been on the lookout for the individual issues but they're very difficult to find, so I was delighted that they'd collected the Aristophane stuff.
I'm a bit embarrassed I found out Le Lรฉzard had put out a new archival collection of Aristophane's work so late. Le Lรฉzard don't ship to Ireland so I had to use a forwarding service (boxship.fr) for all the books above. The fees and shipping came out to โฌ26, so I probably paid โฌ60-70 total
From left to right: Les Sept Fantรดmes by Aristophane; Logorrhรฉe by Aristophane; and Hors la Boxe by Philippe de Pierpont and Jacques Faton.
Got some extremely cool Francophone comics in the mail today
Ah alright. Was sorta hoping for an untranslated book like Sophie but if this is a success it might open the door for more in the future.
Seems like NYRC are gonna publish something of Muรฑoz and Sampayo's in the future. Don't recognise the panel off-rip tho. Doesn't look like Sinner to me (plus NYRC don't do series) and I don't recognise it from Sudor Sudaca or L'Europe en Flammes. Maybe it's a Joe's Bar reissue?
Vignettes.
(picking 3 random attributes and 3 random authors) Dream like Dostoevsky. Fuck like Borges. And, Fuck like Proust
2010 Volkswagen ad by Patrice Killoffer
Oh my fucking god Yoshitoshi Shinomiya is doing a feature length movie??? I love that guy
youtu.be/Z07BJZ46Nok?...
To celebrate the release of a new Gorillaz album hereโs four old magazine covers with them on
Most book scanners look like this and I very much do not want that clunky behemoth in my home. Also doesn't look like it would work well at all.
Itโs just a joke dude. It doesnโt mean anything. Information has no coherent structure . Ideas donโt touch reality
An Akira tribute by Alex Toth. The shadow of a young figure, raising their hands alongside twin explosions.
Of the many artist tributes out there, I think about this Akira piece by Alex Toth often.
Otomo feels like someone who is the exact antithesis of Toths philosophy; pure hyper-maximimalism over stripped-down gestural brevity.
I can't help but wonder what Toth thought of Akira.
Does anyone know of any specialist book scanners available for cheaper than this? This is the only one I've found but 400 is pretty steep
#borathebrain
Theres about a week to go on this auction at Heritage. Seeing it available again 34 years after I drew it triggered a very rare moment as I found myself bidding on something that I drew, not to drive up the price, but because I would like to own it again. It just makes me smile! tinyurl.com/mud5nwc4
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctively mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
Oh lol my bad. The Spanish edition doesn't appear to have been scanned, but the original Czech edition is available on Anna's Archive under the title Diktรกtorskรฉ Boty
annas-archive.li/md5/5eb4da4d...
Inputing the address into archive.li works for most sites. Doesn't work for sites hosted on substack or wordpress or The Paris Review for some reason
archive.li/Iz6cG
