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Claire Wendling
Claire Wendling (born 1967) is a French comics author. Biography In 1989, while still in the School of Fine Arts of Angoulême, she won the "Artist of the Future" prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival and participated in two anthologies published by Delcourt, ''The Children of the Nile'' and ''Entrechats''. In 1990 began her one and only series Les Lumières de l'Amalou (The lights of Amalou), written by Christophe Gibelin, which won the Press award at Angoulême. In 1997, she was hired by Warners studio and moved to Los Angeles to participate in various projects including ''The Quest for Camelot''. Failing to acclimatize, she returned to France eight months later and published ''Desk'', a book of sketches made in Los Angeles. In 2000, she did graphic design work for the video game ''Alone in the Dark IV''. Wendling is an infrequent author: some short stories, a series of sketch books and illustrative works, her complete works are held in a single volume. She ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Clair or Claire may refer to: * Claire (given name), a list of people with the name Claire *Clair (surname) Places Canada * Clair, New Brunswick, a former village, now part of Haut-Madawaska * Clair Parish, New Brunswick * Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada, municipality located on the Island of Montreal * Clair, Saskatchewan United States * Lake Claire (Atlanta), Georgia, neighborhood * Le Claire, Iowa, city in Scott County * Eau Claire, Michigan, village in Berrien County * Eau Claire, Pennsylvania, borough in Butler County * Claire City, South Dakota, town in Roberts County * Eau Claire, Wisconsin, city * Eau Claire County, Wisconsin * Saint Clair, Missouri, city * St. Clair County, Michigan * St. Clair, Michigan, city * St. Clair, Minnesota, city * St. Clair, Pennsylvania, city * St. Clair Shores, Michigan, city Scotland * Clair oilfield in the Atlantic Ocean, 75 km west of Shetland Other uses * Clair (Hampshire cricketer), English professional cricketer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angoulême International Comics Festival
The Angoulême International Comics Festival (french: Festival international de la bande dessinée d'Angoulême) is the second largest comics festival in Europe after the Lucca Comics & Games in Italy, and the third biggest in the world after Lucca Comics & Games and the Comiket of Japan. It has occurred every year since 1974 in Angoulême, France, in January. History The Angoulême International Comics Festival was founded by French writers and editors and Jean Mardikian, and comics writer and scholar .Pasamonik, Didier"Disparition de Claude Moliterni, fondateur du Festival d’Angoulême ,"'ActuaBD'' (Jan. 21, 2009). Moliterni served as co-organizer of the festival through 2005. Attendance More than 200,000 visitors come each year to the fair, including between 6,000 and 7,000 professionals and 800 journalists. The attendance is generally difficult to estimate because the festival takes place all over the town, and is divided in many different areas that are not connecte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angoulême International Comics Festival Media Award
This media award was presented at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. It was given by different media over the years, with sometimes different awards in one year. From 2004 on, these awards are still presented at the time of the festival, but are no longer part of the official awards presented by the festival itself, and thus are excluded from this list. Nominations are given beneath the winner, with indentation and without bold typeface. 1980s * 1981: Elle award: Hugo Pratt * 1982: TF1 award: Mohamed Aouamri * 1983: Press prize: '' RanXerox'' by Tanino Liberatore and Stefano Tamburini * 1984: Press prize: '' Bob Marone'' by Yann and Conrad * 1985: TF1 award: '' La balade du bout du monde'' by Makyo and Vicomte, Glénat * (1986: no award in this category) * 1987: Antenne 2 award: '' Jefferson'' by Ptiluc * 1988: Antipode media award: '' Le Talis Balaouine'' by Marre and Carron * 1989: Antenne 2 award: ''Léonard'' by Turk and Bob de Groot, Le Lombard 1990s * (199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Quest For Camelot
''Quest for Camelot'' (released internationally as ''The Magic Sword: Quest for Camelot'') is a 1998 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation and directed by Frederik Du Chau and very loosely based on the 1976 novel ''The King's Damosel'' by Vera Chapman. It features the voices of Jessalyn Gilsig, Cary Elwes, Gary Oldman, Eric Idle, Don Rickles, Jaleel White, Jane Seymour, Pierce Brosnan, Gabriel Byrne, John Gielgud (his final film), Frank Welker and Sarah Rayne. Andrea Corr, Bryan White, Celine Dion and Steve Perry perform the singing voices for Gilsig, Elwes, Seymour and Brosnan. In May 1995, the film, initially titled ''The Quest for the Holy Grail'', was announced to be Warner Bros. Feature Animation's first project, with Bill Kroyer as director. The film went into production later that year, but was delayed when animators were reassigned to help finish '' Space Jam'' (1996). During the interim, the story was heavily re-tooled, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Régis Loisel
Régis Loisel (born 4 December 1951) is a French cartoonist, best known for the series ''La Quête de l'oiseau du temps'', written by Serge Le Tendre. He worked with Walt Disney Studios on the animated films ''Atlantis'' and ''Mulan''. Bibliography * ''La Quête de l'oiseau du temps'', 4 parts, 1983-1987 * ''La Dernière goutte...'', 1993 * ''Les Farfelingues'', 3 parts, 2001-2004 * ''Magasin Général'', 9 parts, 2006-2014 * ''Les Nocturnes'' * ''Norbert le lézard'', 2004 * ''L'Offrande'' * ''Peter Pan'', 6 parts, 1990-2004 * ''Pyrénée'', 1998 * ''La Quête de l'oiseau du temps'' (''The Quest for the Time-bird''), 7 parts, 1998-2022 * ''Troubles fêtes'', 1989 * ''Mali Mélo, carnet d'un voyage au Mali'', 2000 * "Mickey Mouse: Café Zombo", 2016 * ''Le grand mort'', 6 parts, 2007-2019 * ''Un putain de salopard'', 3 parts, 2019- Awards * 1986: Lucien Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, France * 1992: Audience Award at the Angoulême International Comics F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Catherine Jones
Jeffrey Catherine Jones (January 10, 1944 – May 19, 2011) was an American artist whose work is best known from the late 1960s through the 2000s. Jones created the cover art for more than 150 books through 1976, as well as venturing into fine art during and after this time. Fantasy artist Frank Frazetta called Jones "the greatest living painter". Although Jones first achieved fame as simply Jeff Jones and later as Jeffrey Jones, after 1998 she transitioned to female and added Catherine as a middle name. Early life Jeffrey Durwood Jones was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. As a child, her father was overseas in the military. She graduated from Georgia State College in 1967 with a degree in geology and was keenly interested in art and admired the work of Johannes Vermeer, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and Rembrandt. Career Jones moved to New York City to pursue an art career and quickly found work drawing comics pages for King Comics, Gold Key Comics, '' Creepy'', ''Eer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Mignola
Mike Mignola (; born September 16, 1960) is an American comics artist and writer best known for creating ''Hellboy'' for Dark Horse Comics, part of a shared universe of titles including ''B.P.R.D.'', '' Abe Sapien'', '' Lobster Johnson'', '' Witchfinder'' and various spinoffs. He has also created other supernatural and paranormal themed titles for Dark Horse including ''Baltimore'', '' Joe Golem'' and '' The Amazing Screw-On Head''. Early life Mike Mignola was born September 16, 1960. He was raised Catholic. Career Marvel and DC Mignola was born in Berkeley, California. He began his career in 1980 by illustrating spots in '' The Comic Reader''. His first published piece was in ''The Comic Reader'' #183, a spot illustration of Red Sonja (pg. 9). His first published front cover was ''The Comic Reader'' #196 in November 1981. In 1982 he graduated from the California College of the Arts with a BFA in Illustration. In 1983 he worked as an inker at Marvel Comics on ''Daredevil'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Prix De La Ville D'Angoulême
The Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême is a lifetime achievement award given annually during the Angoulême International Comics Festival to a comics author. Although not a monetary award, it is considered the most prestigious award in Franco-Belgian comics. It has been awarded mainly to French and Belgian authors, but also to international authors. Recipients are, on average, 50 years old. Three women, Florence Cestac, Rumiko Takahashi, and Julie Doucet have been awarded the prize. History The prize was first awarded during the first Angoulême festival in 1974. Traditionally, the winner has been selected as the president of the board and the prize jury of next year's festival. Since 1982, the winners have also drawn the next year's festival poster. In 1984, cartoonist Claire Bretécher received a special tenth anniversary award apart from the main prize, a practice since repeated on subsequent anniversaries. After 1989, the prize was awarded by a jury of all previous winne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Moore
Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English author known primarily for his work in comic books including ''Watchmen'', '' V for Vendetta'', ''The Ballad of Halo Jones'', ''Swamp Thing'', ''Batman:'' ''The Killing Joke'', and ''From Hell''. He is widely recognised among his peers and critics as one of the best comic book writers in the English language. Moore has occasionally used such pseudonyms as Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, Brilburn Logue, and Translucia Baboon; also, reprints of some of his work have been credited to The Original Writer when Moore requested that his name be removed. Moore started writing for British underground and alternative fanzines in the late 1970s before achieving success publishing comic strips in such magazines as '' 2000 AD'' and ''Warrior''. He was subsequently picked up by DC Comics as "the first comics writer living in Britain to do prominent work in America", where he worked on major characters such as Batman ('' Batman: The Killing Joke'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Huppen
Hermann Huppen (born 17 July 1938) is a Belgian comic book artist. He is better known under his pen-name Hermann. He is most famous for his post-apocalyptic comic '' Jeremiah'' which was made into a television series. Biography Hermann was born in 1938 in Bévercé (now a part of Malmedy) in Liège Province.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Hermann". In België gestript, pp. 124-125. Tielt: Lannoo. After studying to become a furniture maker and working as interior architect, Hermann made his debut as comic book artist in 1964 in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine '' Spirou'' with a four-page story. Greg noticed his talent and offered him to work for his studio. In 1966, he began illustrating the '' Bernard Prince'' series written by Greg, published in '' Tintin'' magazine. In 1969, also in collaboration with Greg, he began the western series ''Comanche''. This appeared at the same time as other western series such as '' Blueberry''. Hermann began writing his own stories in 1977, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yann Le Pennetier
Yann is a French male given name, specifically, the Breton form of " Jean" (French for "John"). Notable persons with the name Yann include: __NOTOC__ In arts and entertainment *Yann Martel (born 1963), Canadian author * Yann Moix (born 1968), French author, film director and television presenter * Yann Peifer (born 1974), German disc-jockey *Yann Queffélec (born 1949), French author *Yann Tiersen (born 1970), French musician *Yann Tomita (born 1952), Japanese musician In politics and activism * Yann Fouéré (1910–2011), French activist, Breton nationalist * Yann Goulet (1914–1999), French activist, Breton nationalist *Yann Wehrling (born 1971), French politician In sports * Yann Bodiger (born 1995), French footballer * Yann Boé-Kane (born 1991), French footballer *Yann Clairay (born 1983), French racing driver *Yann Cucherat (born 1979), French gymnast *Yann Danis (born 1981), Canadian ice hockey player * Yann David (born 1988), French rugby union player * Yann Delaigue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Comics Artists
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with France ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Fortnite French places Arts and media * The French (band), a British rock band * "French" (episode), a live-action episode of ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' * ''Française'' (film), 2008 * French Stewart (born 1964), American actor Other uses * French (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * French (tunic), a particular type of military jacket or tunic used in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union * French's, an American brand of mustard condiment * French catheter scale, a unit of measurement of diameter * French Defence, a chess opening * French kiss, a type of kiss involving the tongue See also * France (other) * Franch, a surname * Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
