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/