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Europe Comics
Europe Comics is a pan-European comics and graphic novel digital venture run by 13 European comics publishers from eight European countries. The project received funding in 2015 from the European Commission's Creative Europe Programme, and launched officially in November of that year. The purpose of the initiative is the development of a lesser-known but ample European literary genre, European comics, through the formation of a collective English-language digital catalogue, the organization of author tours and events across Europe and North America, and the creation of a website meant for comics readers and professionals. Partners * Akan Ajans (rights agency, Turkey) * Ballon Media (publisher, Belgium) * (publisher, Italy) * Cinebook (publisher, UK) * Dargaud (publisher, France) * Darkwood (publisher, Serbia) * (publisher, Spain) * Dupuis (publisher, Belgium) * Ellipsanime Productions (animation studio, France) * Le Lombard (publisher, Belgium) * Mediatoon Licensing (rights ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ComiXology
Iconology Inc., d/b/a ComiXology (styled comiXology), is a cloud-based digital distribution platform for comics owned by Amazon, with over 200 million comic downloads . It offers a selection of more than 100,000 comic books, graphic novels, and manga across Android, iOS, Kindle Fire, Windows 10, and the Internet. ComiXology's digital platform with Guided View reading technology is used in the company's own branded applications, and is the engine used by most major comic book publishers in the United States, including Marvel Comics and DC Comics for their privately branded digital services. With the release of the third generation iPad and its Retina Display, ComiXology released a high-definition comic format dubbed CMX-HD. The company also provides tools for brick-and-mortar comic book retailers to participate in digital comic sales. Products *ComiXology.com was launched July 2007 as an online community for comic book fans; the website allows readers to identify upcoming rele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Díaz Canales
Juan Díaz Canales is a Spanish comics artist and an animated film director, known as the co-creator of '' Blacksad''. Biography At an early age, Juan Díaz Canales became interested in comics and their creation, which progressed and broadened out to include animated films. At the age of 18, he entered a school for animation. In 1996 he founded, together with three other artists, a company called Tridente Animation. Through this, he has worked with European and American companies, providing plots and scripts for comics and animation films, as well as directing animated television series and animation movies. During this period he met Juanjo Guarnido, with whom Canales decided to create comics based around a private investigator, Blacksad. After contacting several editors, Guarnido and Canales finally signed on with French publisher Dargaud, and in November 2000, ''Quelque part entre les ombres (Somewhere within the Shadows)'' was published. It was a great success with both cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucky Luke
''Lucky Luke'' is a Western ''bande dessinée'' series created by Belgian cartoonist Morris in 1946. Morris wrote and drew the series single-handedly until 1955, after which he started collaborating with French writer René Goscinny. Their partnership lasted until Goscinny's death in 1977. Afterwards, Morris used several other writers until his own death in 2001. Since Morris's death, French artist Achdé has drawn the series, scripted by several successive writers. The series takes place in the American Old West of the United States. It stars the titular Lucky Luke, a street-smart gunslinger known as the "man who shoots faster than his shadow", and his intelligent horse Jolly Jumper. Lucky Luke is pitted against various villains, either fictional or inspired by American history or folklore. The most famous of these are the Dalton Brothers, loosely based on the Dalton Gang of the early 1890s and claimed to be their cousins. The stories are filled with humorous elements parody ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zerocalcare
Michele Rech (; born 12 December 1983), known as Zerocalcare (), is an Italian cartoonist. His pen name, literally meaning "zero limescale", was inspired by an Italian TV commercial jingle for a descaler product because he had to choose a nickname to quickly join a discussion on the Internet. Biography Early life Rech was born in Cortona, Italy, to an Italian father from Rome and a French mother. He was raised in France, then later Rome (Rebibbia-Ponte Mammolo area), where he graduated at the Lycée français Chateaubriand. Career (2003-present) In 2003, at the age of 20, Rech began working as an illustrator for ''Liberazione'', ''Carta, La Repubblica XL, and'' several other periodicals. At this time, he also wrote a webcomic titled ''Safe Inside'' for Zuda Comics, the online division of DC Comics. In 2004 he created a comic about the G8 summit in Genoa, which had taken place three years before. Zerocalcare published his first graphic novel in October 2011 titled ''The A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kobane Calling
''Kobane Calling'', titled ''Kobane Calling: Greetings from Northern Syria'' in the English edition, is a Comics, comic illustrated book written and designed by the Italy, Italian author Zerocalcare. Part of the work was published in January 2015 on '' Internazionale (magazine), Internazionale'', an Italian weekly. The work is a graphic reportage of the journey that the author took to Syrian Kurdistan and the Syria–Turkey border, a few kilometers far from the besieged city of Kobanî, among the Kurdish population, Kurdish leftist defenders of democratic autonomous region of Rojava, where its people have been fighting against the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Islamic State. Plot In the first part of the comic, Zerocalcare recounts the reasons that pushed him to go to the small town of Mehser, on the Turkish-Syrian border, a short distance from the besieged city of Kobanî, which is the symbol of the independence of the Rojava autonomous region, mainly Kurd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vujadin Radovanović
Vujadin "Vuja" Radovanović ( sr-cyr, Вујадин Радовановић, born January 12, 1962, in Mladenovac) is a Serbian comic-book and graphic novel creator."Vujadin Radovanović, biography" Lambiek Comiclopedia Biography He obtained his degree at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade. He debuted in Yugoslav comics industry in 1984, as member of "Bauhaus 7" art group, together with , and |
Jef Nys
Jozef "Jef" Nys (30 January 1927 – 20 October 2009) was a Belgian comic book creator. He was best known for his comic strip '' Jommeke''. Biography Early years Jozef Nys was born in Berchem, Belgium in 1927.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Jef Nys". In België gestript, pp. 145-146. Tielt: Lannoo. His family came from Koksijde, at the Belgian coast, where his grandfather was a fisherman. Jef Nys' father Hendrik moved to Antwerp after World War I, and worked in the port. Hendrik Nys married Louise Van Den Bos on 5 August 1922. Her father was a council member in Berchem and worked as a painter. He had a great influence on the young Jef. Hendrik and Louise Nys had four children, two of which died at a young age. Hendrik Nys died in 1941 when he was run over by a car while riding his bike. When Jef Nys was 5 years old, he went to school in Berchem. He was a good student and a better artist, and when he was 11 years old, he started with drawing classes in the evening at the municipal a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jommeke
''Jommeke'' is a Belgian comic strip series in publication since 1955. It was created by Jef Nys and can be defined as a humoristic children's adventure series. Jommeke, an 11-year-old boy, is the series' main protagonist. It was originally published in ''Kerk en Leven'', before moving to '' Het Volk'', where it ran until the newspaper ceased to exist in 2010. It is now published in Het Nieuwsblad, De Gentenaar and De Standaard. ''Jommeke'' is very popular in Flanders and, together with ''Suske en Wiske,'' is the best-selling comic strip in the region. However, its success has always remained a phenomenon in Belgium and the Netherlands, and attempts at marketing foreign translations have all failed. History The first appearance of ''Jommeke'' was on 30 October 1955, as a gag-a-day strip in the Flemish magazine '' Kerk en Leven''. After moving to another newspaper, Het Volk, in 1958, ''Jommeke'' became a full length adventure comic strip, while Nys also continued ''Jommeke'' gag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thierry Smolderen
Thierry Smolderen (born 25 November 1954) is an essay writer, and a scenario writer of Belgian comic strips, for example of ''Gipsy''. He is a teacher at École des Beaux-Arts of Angoulême, and he devotes his energy to realising '' Coconino World'', the webzine he animates with some friends and former students. As a comic books historian, he wrote ''Naissances de la bande dessinée'' (2009), about the "platinum age" of comics. This book has been published in English by the University Press of Mississippi in 2014, under the title ''The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay'' (Eisner Award The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books, sometimes referred to as the comics industry's equivalent of the Academy Awards. They are named in ... nominee of 2015 in the Best Scholarly/Academic Work category). External links Some on-line publicationsaCoconino World Bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrico Marini
Enrico Marini (born 13 August 1969) is an Italian comics artist. His works include ''Gipsy'' with writer Thierry Smolderen and '' Le Scorpion'' with writer Stephen Desberg. Biography Marini was born in (Switzerland) and studied graphic arts in the School of Fine Arts of Basel. Publications Les dossiers d'Olivier Varèse Published by Alpen Publishers *1990 : T.1 ''La Colombe de la place Rouge'', written by Marelle *1992 : T.2 ''Bienvenue à Kokonino World'', written by Thierry Smolderen *1992 : T.3 ''Raid sur Kokonino World'', written by Thierry Smolderen *1993 : T.4 ''Le Parfum du magnolia'', written by Georges Pop Gipsy Written by Thierry Smolderen *1993 : T.1 ''L'Étoile du Gitan'', éd. Alpen Publishers *1994 : T.2 ''Les Feux de Sibérie'', éd. Les Humanoïdes Associés *1995 : T.3 ''Le Jour du Tsar'', éd. Les Humanoïdes Associés *1997 : T.4 ''Les Yeux noirs'', éd. Dargaud *1999 : T.5 ''L'Aile blanche, éd. Dargaud *2002 : T.6 ''Le Rire Aztèque'', éd. Dargaud L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gipsy (comics)
Gipsy (in some translations spelled as "''Gypsy''") is a French science fiction comic series drawn by Italian-Swiss artist Enrico Marini and written by Thierry Smolderen. The eponymous main character is a charismatic Roma truck driver who works on a worldwide net of motorways as a freelance trader with his own large truck. The series is drawn in a style that combines elements from the ligne claire school, American comics, and Japanese manga, and was first published in 1992 by Dargaud. It has six volumes so far published as of 2010. It has also been translated from the original French to German, Dutch, Danish and English, and rights have been sold in multiple other languages. Setting The series is set in a near future (roughly several decades into the 21st century) where ozone layer damage has forced all air travel to be abandoned (except for some airships), while the world is now spanned by an interconnected mega-motorway system called C3C. At the same time, global cooling has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Miralles
Ana Miralles (born 16 December 1959; also spelled as Ana Mirallès) is a Spanish comic books artist, known particularly for her treatment of erotic subjects. After a degree in fine arts, she became an illustrator for publishing houses Gregal, Teide and Bromera. She later worked increasingly in bande dessinée comic books, first finding publication in 1982 with the Spanish adult comic magazine '' Rambla''. Her first black-and-white album, '' El Brillo de una Mirada'', came out in 1990, written by Emilio Ruiz. This was later coloured and released in France as ''Corps à corps''. Her first comic series was the '' Eva Médusa'' trilogy, set in Brazil in the 1920s, which she made with Antonio Segura; the first volume was published in 1991. She worked again with Ruiz on '' A la Recherche de la Licorne'' from 1997 (an adaptation of Juan Eslava Galan's bestselling novel). In 2001 she created ''Djinn Jinn ( ar, , ') – also romanized as djinn or anglicized as genies ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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