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Cinebook
Cinebook Ltd is a British publishing company that publishes comic albums and graphic novels. It describes itself as "the 9th art publisher," the 9th art being comics in continental Europe, especially France, Belgium and Italy. They typically translate Franco-Belgian comics – predominantly originating from the Franco-Belgian comic publishers Dargaud, Dupuis and Le Lombard – into English and have also issued an original series about the French Queen Marguerite de Valois, also known as Queen Margot. Cinebook works with a team of translators, including native speakers of French, British English and American English. Titles Softcover album series So far, the company has published, or plans to publish, the following comic series in softcover editions: Hardcover series * ''Valerian: The Complete Collection'' During 2017 and 2018 the British publisher Cinebook Limited published a hardcover collection of the series titled; ''Valerian: The Complete Collection'', spread o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luiz Eduardo De Oliveira
Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira (born December 13, 1944), more famous under his pen name Léo is a Brazilian comics creator. Biography After graduating as a mechanical engineer, Oliveira left Brazil because of the then military dictatorship. He lived in Chile until the Chilean coup of 1973, then in Argentina, before returning to Brazil in 1974. He worked as an illustrator in the advertising industry in São Paulo before once more leaving Brazil, this time for France, in 1981. He had hoped to find work illustrating comics, but the Franco-Belgian comics industry was in difficulty at the time so he fell back on advertising once again, with a few comics pieces being published in L'Écho des savanes and Pilote. In 1986, with the assistance of Jean-Claude Forest, Oliveira began contributing to the youth oriented magazines of Bayard Presse. He illustrated true stories for magazine. He then recounted Mahatma Gandhi's life in the album ''Gandhi, le pèlerin de la paix'', for . In 1988, he be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bellybuttons
''The Bellybuttons'' (french: Les Nombrils, ) is a Canadian comics series written by Maryse Dubuc (credited as "Dubuc") and illustrated by her husband, Marc "Delaf" Delafontaine. Dubuc and Delafontaine are based in Sherbrooke, Quebec. History As ''Les Nombrils'', the series was introduced in 2004 in issue #188 of the Québécois humour magazine '' Safarir''; it was later picked up in 2005 by the Franco-Belgian comics magazine, '' Spirou''. Spirou's publisher, Dupuis, published its first BD album, ''Pour qui tu te prends ?'', in 2006. An English version of the series, with its title directly translated to ''The Bellybuttons'', was introduced in 2009 by British publisher Cinebook. By 2009, ''Les Nombrils'' has become one of the best-selling BD album titles on the market, with its third volume, ''Les liens de l'amitié'', having sold over 220,000 copies. The series was on hiatus from late 2009 until February 2011, when ''Les Nombrils'' returned to ''Spirou'' in issue 3802. For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blake And Mortimer
''Blake and Mortimer'' is a Belgian comics series created by the writer and comics artist Edgar P. Jacobs. It was one of the first series to appear in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine ''Tintin'' in 1946, and was subsequently published in book form by Le Lombard. The main protagonists of the adventures are Philip Mortimer, a leading British scientist, and his friend Captain Francis Blake of MI5. The main antagonist is their sworn enemy, Colonel Olrik, who has appeared in almost every book. Their confrontations take them into the realms of detective investigation and science-fiction, dealing with such themes as time travel, Atlantis and espionage. Since the death of Jacobs, new books have been published by two separate teams of artists and writers. A television series based upon the series was produced in 1997, entitled ''Blake and Mortimer''. The books by Jacobs himself are generally set in the very period of their writing, but those authored by others after his death are se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Tuniques Bleues
''Les Tuniques Bleues'' (Dutch: De Blauwbloezen) is a Belgian series of ''bandes dessinées'' (comic books in the Franco-Belgian tradition), first published in '' Spirou'' magazine and later collected in albums by Dupuis."Best of Belgium's Cartoons", Ooi Kok Chuen. ''New Straits Times'', November 27, 1995. Created by artist Louis Salvérius and writer Raoul Cauvin, the series was taken up by artist Lambil after Salverius' death. It follows two United States cavalrymen through a series of battles and adventures. The first album of the series was published in 1970. The series' name, ''Les Tuniques Bleues'', literally "the bluecoats", refers to the Northern (union) army during the American Civil War. Cinebook has started to print the comics in English as "''The Bluecoats''" releasing ''Robertsonville Prison'' in 2008. It is one of the best-selling series in French-language comics. History Cauvin has written the stories for the first 64 volumes. Six of the first ten volumes were i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worlds Of Aldebaran
The ''Worlds of Aldebaran'' (french: Les Mondes d'Aldébaran) is a French science-fiction comic series written and illustrated by Léo and published by Dargaud in French and Cinebook in English. The ''Aldebaran'' saga is divided into 5 cycles: ''Aldebaran'' and its sequels ''Betelgeuse'', ''Antares'', ''Survivors'', ''Return to Aldebaran'' and ''Neptune''. Each cycle is composed of three to six albums, and each corresponds to a different planet. Although it is possible to read the cycles separately, they are chronological to form a coherent whole. Each cycle (and thus planet) introduces new secondary characters, although the central heroes of the story remain constant. 2011 saw the release of a new volume, ''Survivors'' (french: Survivants), which introduced a new set of characters and takes place concurrently with ''Antares''. The next cycle, ''Return to Aldebaran'' (french: Retour sur Aldebaran) consists of 3 albums, published between 2018 and 2020. It is followed in 2022 with ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldebaran (comics)
The ''Worlds of Aldebaran'' (french: Les Mondes d'Aldébaran) is a French science-fiction comic series written and illustrated by Léo and published by Dargaud in French and Cinebook in English. The ''Aldebaran'' saga is divided into 5 cycles: ''Aldebaran'' and its sequels ''Betelgeuse'', ''Antares'', ''Survivors'', ''Return to Aldebaran'' and ''Neptune''. Each cycle is composed of three to six albums, and each corresponds to a different planet. Although it is possible to read the cycles separately, they are chronological to form a coherent whole. Each cycle (and thus planet) introduces new secondary characters, although the central heroes of the story remain constant. 2011 saw the release of a new volume, ''Survivors'' (french: Survivants), which introduced a new set of characters and takes place concurrently with ''Antares''. The next cycle, ''Return to Aldebaran'' (french: Retour sur Aldebaran) consists of 3 albums, published between 2018 and 2020. It is followed in 2022 with '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpha (Lombard)
''Alpha'' is a Franco-Belgian comics series about a CIA operative written by Pascal Renard, illustrated by Youri Jigounov and published by Le Lombard in French and Cinebook in English. Volumes #''L'échange'' (May 1996) #''Clan Bogdanov'' (May 1997) #''Le salaire des loups'' (April 1998) #''La liste'' (April 1999) #''Sanctions'' (October 2000) #''L'émissaire'' (April 2002) #''Snow White, 30 secondes!'' (October 2003) #''Jeux de puissants'' (November 2004) #''Scala'' (September 2006) #''Mensonges'' (May 2007) #''Fucking patriot'' (September 2009) #''Petit tour avec Malcolm'' (August 2013) #''Le syndrome de Maracamba'' (September 2015) #''Dominos'' (2019) Translations Since July 2008, Cinebook Ltd Cinebook Ltd is a British publishing company that publishes comic albums and graphic novels. It describes itself as "the 9th art publisher," the 9th art being comics in continental Europe, especially France, Belgium and Italy. They typically tr ... has been publishing ''Alpha''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betelgeuse (comics)
The ''Worlds of Aldebaran'' (french: Les Mondes d'Aldébaran) is a French science-fiction comic series written and illustrated by Léo and published by Dargaud in French and Cinebook in English. The ''Aldebaran'' saga is divided into 5 cycles: ''Aldebaran'' and its sequels ''Betelgeuse'', ''Antares'', ''Survivors'', ''Return to Aldebaran'' and ''Neptune''. Each cycle is composed of three to six albums, and each corresponds to a different planet. Although it is possible to read the cycles separately, they are chronological to form a coherent whole. Each cycle (and thus planet) introduces new secondary characters, although the central heroes of the story remain constant. 2011 saw the release of a new volume, ''Survivors'' (french: Survivants), which introduced a new set of characters and takes place concurrently with ''Antares''. The next cycle, ''Return to Aldebaran'' (french: Retour sur Aldebaran) consists of 3 albums, published between 2018 and 2020. It is followed in 2022 with '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boule Et Bill
''Boule et Bill'' (known in English as ''Billy & Buddy'') is a popular comic, created in 1959 by Belgian writer-artist Jean Roba in collaboration with Maurice Rosy. In 2003, the artistic responsibility of the series was passed on to Roba's former assistant Laurent Verron. The stories center on a typical family: a man and his wife, their young son Boule and Bill the cocker spaniel. History ''Boule et Bill'' first appeared in the Belgian comics magazine '' Spirou'' on December 24, 1959. The ambition was to make a sort of European Peanuts. The debut was made in a so-called '' mini-récit'' (mini-story), a story in 32 very small pages, printed on the inner spread of the magazine. Roba had until then mainly made illustrations for the magazine and had helped some other authors (including André Franquin), and now started with his own series. A few months later, a four-page comic with the same heroes appeared, and shortly thereafter Roba created a weekly one page comic. For the next twenty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryse Dubuc
Maryse Dubuc (; born 21 October 1977) is a Canadian comics writer, known particularly for ''The Bellybuttons'' which she created with Marc Delafontaine ("Delaf"). Early life Maryse Dubuc was born in Compton, Quebec,La Presse: "Les Nombrils du Monde", November 9, 2013. growing up at a dairy farm. She studied French literature at the Cégep de Sherbrooke, and communication at the |
Le Lombard
''Le Lombard'', known as ''Les Éditions du Lombard'' until 1989, is a Belgian comic book publisher established in 1946 when ''Tintin'' magazine was launched. Le Lombard is now part of Média-Participations, alongside publishers Dargaud and Dupuis, with each entity maintaining its editorial independence. History Les Éditions du Lombard was established by Raymond Leblanc and his partners in 1946. Wanting to create an illustrated youth magazine, they decided that the already well-known ''Tintin'' would be the perfect hero. Business partner André Sinave went to see Tintin creator Hergé to propose creating the magazine. Hergé, who had worked for ''Le Soir'' during the war, was being prosecuted for having collaborated with the Germans and did not have a publisher at the time. After consulting with his friend Edgar Pierre Jacobs, Hergé agreed. The first issue of ''Tintin'' magazine was published on 26 September 1946. Simultaneously, a Dutch version was also published, entitled '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raoul Cauvin
Raoul Cauvin (26 September 1938 – 19 August 2021) was a Belgian comics author and one of the most popular in the humorist field. Biography Raoul Cauvin was born in Antoing, Belgium in 1938.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Raoul Cauvin". In België gestript, pp. 176–177. Tielt: Lannoo. He studied lithography at the Institut Saint-Luc in Tournai, but upon leaving school found that there were no jobs available for lithographers.Interview on fan site Last accessed 29 September 2006 He started working at in 1960 as a cameraman for the small the publishing house had started, working ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
