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La Pastèque
La Pastèque is a French Canadian publisher of comics, based in Montréal, Québec. Overview La Pastèque ("The Watermelon" in English) was founded by Martin Brault and Frédéric Gauthier in Montréal, Québec in July 1998, and their first publication, the first volume of ''Spoutnik'', appeared that December. The establishment publisher arose from talks between Brault and Gauthier about the state of comics in Québec around 1997. Things seemed pessimistic, and it seemed unlikely that the small market in the province could sustain itself. The two wanted to invigorate comics publishing in Québec, and chose to adopt a different approach to that of Franco-Belgian or American comics by publishing artists who had more personal work. They are the main French-language publisher of a number of artists such as Michel Rabagliati, and have also revived older albums, such as Jean-Paul Eid's ''Jérôme Bigras'' and Réal Godbout & Pierre Fournier's ''Red Ketchup''. Recognition La Pa ...
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Martin Brault
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Réal Godbout
Réal Godbout is a Quebec writer and comic book illustrator, best known for his ''Michel Risque'' and ''Red Ketchup'' series which he co-created with his long-time friend Pierre Fournier. Biography In the 70's, Godbout published his comic strips in periodicals such as ''BD'' and ''L’Illustré'', and in the daily ''Le Jour''. He joined the magazine ''Croc'' with its first issue where he co-created, co-wrote and illustrated the ''Michel Risque'' and ''Red Ketchup'' series. Both series have been reprinted by La Pastèque of Montreal. More recently, his work has contributed educational strips to the young readers’ magazine ''Les Débrouillards'', and he made headlines with his award-winning adaptation of Kafka’s novel ''Amerika''. In 2015, collaborating with his daughter Adèle, Godbout wrote and illustrated a fable, ''Avant l’Apocalypse''. Godbout teaches comic art at the University of Québec in Outaouais. He is currently working on the script for the feature film adaptatio ...
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Culture Of Quebec
The culture of Quebec emerged over the last few hundred years, resulting predominantly from the shared history of the French-speaking North American majority in Quebec. Québécois culture, as a whole, constitutes all distinctive traits – spiritual, material, intellectual and affective – that characterize Québécois society. This term encompasses the arts, literature, institutions and traditions created by Québécois, as well as the collective beliefs, values and lifestyle of Québécois. It is a culture of the Western World. Quebec is the only region in North America with a French-speaking majority, as well as one of only two provinces in Canada where French is a constitutionally recognized official language. As of 2006, 79% of all Quebecers list French as their mother tongue; since French is the official language in the province, up to 95% of all residents speak French. The 2001 census showed the population to be 90.3 percent Christian (in contrast to 77 percent for the wh ...
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Quebec Comics
Quebec comics (french: bande dessinée québécoise, or BDQ) are French language comics produced primarily in the Canadian province of Quebec, and read both within and outside Canada, particularly in French-speaking Europe. In contrast to English language comics in Canada, which largely follow the American model, Quebec comics are mostly influenced by the trends in Franco-Belgian comics. There is little crossover between the French and English comics worlds in Canada. Overview The majority language of Quebec is French, and Quebec comics refers to those comics published in French—English-language comics are considered to be part of the English-language part of Canadian comics history. The two traditions have little crossover, with the English tradition following mainly American trends, and the French tradition following mainly European ones, especially the French language Franco-Belgian trends, although newspaper comic strips have tended to be French translations of syndic ...
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