Storyboards

In his year as an editor of the label "Série B"
at Delcourt, Olivier Vatine helped lots of artists
to the point that he sometimes made some storyboards.

This book is published to show some of these with
explanations and interviews. Nice idea and helpful
to understand how to make a comics.

And it will be fun to review some works in progress
about lots of series that were nice to read and
belonging to the "bad genres" (SF, Fantasy, Western...)

Le Petit Livre rouge du storyboard
Delcourt, Hors-Collection
artist: Olivier Vatine
publication date: January 28, 2009

The Amazon

There were lots of quite good comics published
in the 80's and it is a trend now to republish
them. The Amazon was one nice, sensible, ecological
three-issue mini-series tale published by Comico
and will be remastered and released by Dark Horse.

I often talk about this comic book whenever the
discussion is about Tim Sale, because too few
know of that piece of work. Now it will happily
have a chance to reach a wider audience.

A reporter go to the Amazon Jungle to write a story
about some sabotage supposedly by spirits. He doesn't
believe a word of it, at first.

The Amazon #1
writer: Steven T. Seagle
artist: Tim Sale
publication date: March 11, 2009

The original colors were by Matthew Waddington
and they were quite nice I found. But they will
nevertheless be made by Matt Hollingsworth in
this new version. I guess it is to give a fresh
new look to this comics, as is the new cover
(actually, the old covers were quite strange,
not at all like what we could see nowadays)

As an homage to the old team, let's precise the
lettering was by Bob Pinaha and the editor was
Diana Schutz.

James Jean Exhibition

James Jean may have stopped working as an illustrator
(have you seen his Fables covers book?) but he is
nevertheless quite active.

There will be an exhibition at Jonathan LeVine Gallery
(New-York), January 10th - February 7th, 2009.

http://www.jonathanlevinegallery.com/

You can find for example Maze (which will be on view there)
deconstructed on his blog:

http://www.processrecess.com/index.php?uid=A1E1D1

David Lloyd Exhibition

The New End Gallery is making an exhibition of
comics pages by David Lloyd. I went and saw them,
a great way to see his art more precisely. It
features lots of different works although there
is none from V for Vendetta.

The exhibition finally continues until end of
january 2009.

http://www.newendgallery.com/

Totoro Forest Project

Le Totoro Forest Project est une mise aux
enchères qui aura lieu aux studios d'animation
Pixar à Emerville le 6 Septembre 2008 afin de
supporter le Totoro No Furusato National Fund.

Ce fond a été créé entre autres par Hayao
Miyazaki pour préserver la nature à Sayama
Hills.

Voici la carte émise pour le projet. Il y
aura un livre également. Et une exposition
de certains travaux au Cartoon Art Museum de
San Francisco du 20 Septembre au 7 Décembre
2008.

Le comité central du projet est composé de
Dice Tsutsumi, Yukino Pang, Enrico Casarosa
et Ronnie Del Carmen.

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The Totoro Forest Project is an auction that
will take place at Pixar Animation Studios in
Emerville on September 6th 2008 in order to
support the Totoro No Furusato National Fund.

This fund was created by Hayao Miyazaki among
others to preserve Sayama Hills nature.

Here is a card of the project. There will be
a book too. And an exhibition of some works
at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco
running from September 20th to December 7th
2008.

In the core committee of the project are
Dice Tsutsumi, Yukino Pang, Enrico Casarosa
and Ronnie Del Carmen

Notes #1

Notes #1: Born to be a larve
(Delcourt, Collection Shampooing)
De Boulet

Boulet possède un blog célèbre, avec des pages
de dessins très amusantes sur un peu de tout.

C'est aussi un artiste avec plusieurs albums
publiés.

En septembre, le premier livre reprenant des
éléments de son blog va paraître.

Ce sera drôle, c'est certain et si chaque
personne suivant son blog l'achète le succès
est garanti.

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Notes #1: Born to be a larve
(Delcourt, Collection Shampooing)
By Boulet

Boulet has one very famous blog, drawing some
nice and funny pages about everything he can think
of.

He has several graphic novels published too.

And this september, he will have the first
one made with his blog entries published.

It will be diverting for sure, and if everyone
following his blog buy it, success is garanteed.

Madara #1

Par l'équipe aux commandes de MPD Psycho (Pika),
voici Madara (Glénat), de l'héroic fantasy avec
quête, combats et monstres.

L'Empereur du Mal a vent d'une de ces prophéties:
un jeune garçon devrait le détrôner et ouvrir une
porte entre le monde des humains et celui d'Agalta.
Or il se trouve que l'on signale son fils comme
le potentiel de la Légende. Ni une ni deux, il le
découpe en morceaux... Mais certains ont la vie dure!

Sortie en France en Mars, scénario de Eiji Otsuka
et dessin de Sho-U Tajima.

Batman: Death Mask

It will be quite an event this spring due to
DC and their publication of Batman: Death Mask,
a 4-issue mini-series by Yoshinori Natsume, the
artist and creator of Togari.

The story will be on a serial killer somewhat
linked to the past of Batman, his years of
martial art training especially.

Sure can't hurt to see what it will be like...

Eddy Paape en monographie

Au printemps devrait sortir un ouvrage par
Alain De Kuyssche: Eddy Paape, La Passion de
la page d'après (Le Lombard).

L'éditeur remet en avant Eddy Paape et c'est
tant mieux. Des ressorties des intégrales de
Luc Orient ont également commencées.

Une occasion de (re)découvrir le travail de
ce dessinateur d'aventures entraînantes.

RIP Jinzo Toriumi

Il avait été scénariste pour des séries animées telles que
Judo Boy, Gatchaman (aka Bataille des planètes aka
G-Force), Ronin Warriors....

Il avait même réalisé quelques Judo Boy.

Avant tout ça, il avait travaillé sur Speed Racer.

Il était également l'auteur de romans adaptés d'animation
ainsi que d'un guide à l'écriture de scénario d'animés.

Jinzo Toriumi est décédé jeudi 17 Janvier d'un cancer du
foie. Il avait 78 ans. RIP.

Creepy Archives #1

If you like horror stories, this volume will be
something to get, since it will show some art by
very impressive artists. Just imagine who are
here: Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, Alex Toth,
Frank Frazetta...

This one reprints Creepy #1-5, is black and white
and the 232 pages will be in store on June 18. The
original magazine are from 1964-1966, but they will
be sure as fun to read as they were in the past.

Creepy Archives #1 (Dark Horse)

Uchronie(s)

Sortie prévue à Angoulême de la nouvelle saga de
Eric Corbeyran: Uchronie(s)

Uchronie(s): New Byzance #1 (Glénat, Collection Grafica)
couverture: Richard Guérineau
scénario: Eric Corbeyran
dessin: Eric Chabbert

Dans ce lancement de la série prévue en 10 tomes,
l'islam, l'orientalisme et le monde moderne occidental
se sont télescopés pour donner une société à nouveau
visage.

Je trouve pas mal que les éditeurs européens se mettent
à sélectionner des couvertures par des artistes différents
de ceux dessinant l'intérieur des pages. C'est un débouché
éventuel pour des illustrateurs ou pour des dessinateurs
de bandes dessinées souhaitant s'aérer en donnant dans
l'illustration.