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L'Association Des Bibliophiles Universels
L'Association is a French publishing house located in Paris which publishes comic books. It was founded in May 1990 by Jean-Christophe Menu, Lewis Trondheim, David B., Mattt Konture, Patrice Killoffer, Stanislas, and Mokeït. L'Association is one of the most important publishers to come out of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics in the 1990s, and remains highly regarded. They were among the first to publish authors such as Joann Sfar and Marjane Satrapi, and also are known for publishing French translations of the work of North American cartoonists like Julie Doucet and Jim Woodring. ''Mon Lapin quotidien'' (MLQ, formely ''Lapin'' and ''Mon Lapin'') is the group's magazine. History The forerunner of the association was founded in 1984 as "Aanal", or Association pour l’Apologie du 9e Art Libre. Various other structures were set up by the founding members, and in 1990 they decided to return to an independent organisational structure, based on Aanal. At the time, the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Doucet
Julie Doucet (born December 31, 1965) is a Canadian cartoonist and artist, best known for her autobiographical works such as '''' and ''My New York Diary''. Her work is concerned with such topics as "sex, violence, and male/female issues." Biography Early career Doucet was born in |
Tom Hart (comics)
Tom Hart (born October 8, 1969) is an American comics creator best known for his ''Hutch Owen'' series of comics. Career Tom Hart began making mini-comics while living in Seattle in the early 1990s. Like many of his colleagues including Megan Kelso, Dave Lasky, Jason Lutes, Jon Lewis, and James Sturm he was an early recipient of the Xeric Foundation grant for cartoonists. His Xeric-winning book, ''Hutch Owen's Working Hard'' was 56 pages and self-published in 1994. His next book, ''New Hat'', was published through Canadian publisher Black Eye Productions in 1995. Black Eye then published his next book, ''The Sands'', in 1997. Hart returned to the Hutch Owen series and published a first collection of stories with Top Shelf Productions in 2000. Later books in the series have also been published by Top Shelf. ''Time'' magazine has called ''Hutch Owen'' "A devastating satire hichfeels like a scalding hot poker cauterizing the open wound of American corporate and consumer culture. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renée French
Renée French (born 1963) is an American comics writer and illustrator and, under the pen name Rainy Dohaney, a children's book author, and exhibiting artist. Her work is characterized by her "obsessive-looking and highly unsettling visual style." Books Her work includes ''H Day'' (Picturebox), ''The Soap Lady'' (inspired by the display in the Mütter Museum) (Top Shelf Productions), ''The Ticking'' (Top Shelf Productions), and ''Micrographica'' (Top Shelf Productions), ''Edison Steelhead's Lost Portfolio: Exploratory Studies of Girls and Rabbits'' ( Sparkplug Books), and ''Marbles in My Underpants'' (Oni Press). She also has a weekly strip ''The Taint'' in the ''New York Press''. Her serialized comic ''Baby Bjornstrand'' appears on the Study Group Comic Books website. ''The New York Times'' said her graphic novels "split the difference between adorable and horrifically gross"; writing about "Baby Bjornstrand", they called it "equal parts Daffy Duck and Samuel Beckett, and all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Diana
Michael Christopher DianaShepherd, Chuck (August 1994). "Loony Toons: Florida puts the boot to a cartoonist". "The Playboy Forum". ''Playboy'' magazine. Pages 41-43 (born 1969) is an American underground cartoonist. His work, which is largely self-published, deals with themes including sexuality, violence, and religion. He is the first person to receive a criminal conviction in the United States for artistic obscenity for his comic '' Boiled Angel''. During his childhood and teen years, Diana took an interest in creating art that others found disturbing. Living in Florida as an adult, he began publishing his comics in zines, which he primarily distributed through the mail. His work came to the attention of the FBI during their investigation of serial killings in another Florida city, and they forwarded it to Diana's local police after ruling him out as a suspect. In 1992, after he sent copies of his work to an undercover police officer, Diana was charged under Florida law with obsc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Bravo
Émile Bravo (born 18 September 1964) is a French comics artist. Biography Émile Bravo was born in Paris in 1964 from Spanish parents (a Catalan father and a Valencian mother). Having grown up with the famous Franco-Belgian comics like ''Astérix'' and ''The Adventures of Tintin'', he wanted to become a comics creator. After his studies, he started working for the magazine ''Marie-France'' and as an illustrator, before publishing his first comic book in 1990. It was written by Jean Regnaud, with whom he would collaborate on multiple occasions over the next decades. In 1992, he became a member of the "Atelier Nawak" (later the Atelier des Vosges) and their publishing branch L'Association, working together with people like Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim, David B., and Christophe Blain. There he met and advised Marjane Satrapi. Bibliography *''Ivoire'' :written by Jean Regnaud, Atomium, 1990; translated in Dutch *''Aleksis Strogonov'' :3 albums, with Jean Regnaud, 1993-1998 *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Bertozzi
Nick Bertozzi (born May 26, 1970) is an American comic book writer and artist, as well as a commercial illustrator and teacher of cartooning. His series ''Rubber Necker'' from Alternative Comics won the 2003 Harvey Awards for best new talent and best new series. His project, '' The Salon'' (published by St. Martin's Press), examines the creation of cubism in 1907 Paris in the context of a fictional murder mystery. Early life Bertozzi grew up on the East Side of Providence, Rhode Island, and in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and got his BA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has lived in Madrid, Philadelphia, and New York City. Career Bertozzi also illustrated ''Houdini: The Handcuff King'' (published by Hyperion), which was written by Jason Lutes. Bertozzi also publishes two webcomics, ''Persimmon Cup'' and ''Pecan Sandy'', as part of the ACT-I-VATE comics blog. His illustration clients include Nickelodeon Magazine, ''Spin'', ''The New York Times'', ''New York Press'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Baudoin
Edmond Baudoin (born 23 April 1942 in Nice) is a French artist, illustrator, and writer of sequential art and graphic novels. Biography Baudoin left school at the age of 16 and went into military service. He later worked as an accountant at the Palace de Nice (L’Hôtel Plaza). At 33, he left the accountant trade to pursue drawing. Baudoin was an art professor from 1999 to 2003 at the University of Quebec. Publications * ''Travesti'', L'Association, 2007 * ''Le petit train de la côte bleue'', 6 pieds sous terre, 2007 * ''"Les essuie-glaces'', collection Aire Libre, Dupuis, 2006 * ''La patience du grand singe'', en collaboration avec Céline Wagner, Tartamudo Editions, 2006 * ''Patchwork'', Éditions Le 9e Monde, 2006 * ''L'Espignole'', L'Association, 2006 * ''La musique du dessin'', Éditions de l'An 2, 2005 * ''Crazyman'', L'Association, 2005 * ''Le chant des baleines'', collection Aire Libre, Dupuis, 2005 * ''Araucaria, carnets du Chili'', collection Mimolette, L'Associa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Abel
Jessica Abel (born 1969) is an American comic book writer and artist, known as the creator of such works as ''Life Sucks'', ''Drawing Words & Writing Pictures'', ''Soundtrack'', ''La Perdida'', ''Mirror, Window'', ''Radio: An Illustrated Guide'' (with collaborator Ira Glass), and the omnibus series ''Artbabe''. Early life Abel was born in 1969 in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in the Chicago metropolitan area. She graduated from Evanston Township High School. She attended Carleton College for in 1987–88, and then transferred to the University of Chicago, where she published her first comics work in 1988, in the student anthology ''Breakdown''. She also held administrative positions including Assistant to the Associate Dean and graduate and undergraduate chairs at SAIC. She graduated with a BA degree. Career Abel began her comics career through minicomics, self-publishing the photocopied, hand-sewn and embellished comic book ''Artbabe'' in 1992; four annual issues followed, wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comix 2000
''Comix 2000'' was an international one-shot independent comic book published in 1999 by L'Association (France) and distributed in the United States by Fantagraphics Books. All the comics featured in ''Comix 2000'' are wordless in order to accommodate readers of any nationality. Notable contributors to ''Comix 2000'' include Jessica Abel, Edmond Baudoin, Nick Bertozzi, Stéphane Blanquet, Émile Bravo, David B., Mike Diana, Julie Doucet, Renée French, Tom Hart, Dylan Horrocks, Megan Kelso, Patrice Killoffer, James Kochalka, Étienne Lécroart, Jean-Christophe Menu, Brian Ralph, Ron Regé, Jr., Joann Sfar, R. Sikoryak, Lewis Trondheim, Chris Ware, Skip Williamson, and Aleksandar Zograf Saša Rakezić (born 1963 in Pančevo, Serbia), better known by his pen name Aleksandar Zograf, is a Serbian cartoonist. His works focus mostly on life in the former Yugoslavia, such as ''Life Under Sanctions'', ''Psychonaut'', ''Dream Watche .... The book's layout resembles that of a di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persepolis (comic)
''Persepolis'' is an autobiographical series of ( French comics) by Marjane Satrapi that depict her childhood up to her early adult years in Iran and Austria during and after the Islamic Revolution. The title ''Persepolis'' is a reference to the ancient capital of the Persian Empire. Originally published in French, the graphic memoir has been translated to many other languages, including English, Spanish, Catalan, Romanian, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Swedish, Finnish, Georgian, Dutch, and Chinese. , it has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. ''Persepolis'' was written in 2000 and ''Persepolis 2'' was written in 2004. French comics publisher L'Association published the original work in four volumes between 2000 and 2003. Pantheon Books (North America) and Jonathan Cape (United Kingdom) published the English translations in two volumes – one in 2003 and the other in 2004. Omnibus editions in French and English followed in 2007, coinciding with the theatrical release of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fine Art
In European academic traditions, fine art is developed primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork. In the aesthetic theories developed in the Italian Renaissance, the highest art was that which allowed the full expression and display of the artist's imagination, unrestricted by any of the practical considerations involved in, say, making and decorating a teapot. It was also considered important that making the artwork did not involve dividing the work between different individuals with specialized skills, as might be necessary with a piece of furniture, for example. Even within the fine arts, there was a hierarchy of genres based on the amount of creative imagination required, with history painting placed higher than still life. Historically, the five main fine arts were painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and poetry, with p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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