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Dargaud
Société Dargaud (), doing business as Les Éditions Dargaud, is a publisher of Franco-Belgian comics series, headquartered in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. It was founded in 1936 by Georges Dargaud, publishing its first comics in 1943. History Initially, Dargaud published novels for women. In 1948, it started '' Line'', a "magazine for elegant women", as well as a French edition of the Belgian '' Tintin'' magazine. In 1960, Dargaud bought the weekly ''Pilote'' magazine from René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo, and Jean-Michel Charlier. Goscinny continued as editor of the magazine, and Charlier was comic album editor for a period. In October 1961, Dargaud published the first ''Asterix'' album. In 1967, Dargaud entered the animation production services by launching a division named Dargaud Films with the movie '' Asterix the Gaul''. Subsequently, the company produced or co-produced several Asterix, Lucky Luke and Tintin feature films. By 1972, Dargaud along with American p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dargaud Media
Dargaud Media is a French production company and animation studio that produces animation, documentaries and feature-length films. It was created in 1984 by the French-Belgian comic book publishing house Dargaud. It is one of the production labels of Ellipse Animation of the Média-Participations group. History In 1967, Dargaud entered the animation production services with the movie '' Asterix the Gaul''. Subsequently, the company produced or co-produced several Asterix, Lucky Luke and Tintin feature films. By 1972, Dargaud announced that they've teamed up with American production and distributor United Artists to produce the movie '' Le Viager'' which was directed by Pierre Tchernia. Two years later in 1974, Dargaud announced that they had joined forces with René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. In June 1997, Dargaud announced that they've acquired French animation and production company Marina Productions which was founded by Claude Berthier expanding Dargaud's animation output ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Dargaud
Georges Dargaud (; 27 April 1911 – 18 July 1990) was a French publisher of comics, most famously ''Tintin'' magazine, ''Asterix'', and ''Lucky Luke'', through his Dargaud company. Biography Dargaud started out working as a broker for an advertising agency. In April 1936, he and his wife, Irène, founded Dargaud S.A. The publishing company focused on corporate communications and family magazines. In 1943, Dargaud began publishing comics, starting with ''Allo les jeunes''. Two years later, he published comic albums of ''Bob et Bobette'' by Loys Pétillot (not to be confused with the French version of Willy Vandersteen's ''Suske en Wiske''). In 1948, Dargaud was approached by Raymond Leblanc, the publisher of Belgian comic magazine '' Journal de Tintin''. Leblanc had previously contacted numerous French publishers, all of whom had refused to publish ''Tintin'' on the grounds the eponymous comic's creator, Hergé, had been accused of being a Nazi collaborator for drawing ''Tintin' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellipsanime
Ellipsanime Productions (formerly known as Le Studio Ellipse and Ellipse Programme) is a French animation studio that produces television programs. It was founded in 1987. In February 2000 it merged with Expand SA; Expand sold the company to Dargaud in 2003, and it became Ellipsanime in 2004. In 2014, Ellipsanime bought the assets of Moonscoop SA. Ellipse has worked with many other animation companies, with the most reputable being Nelvana and Nickelodeon. Ellipse was best known in North America for co-producing seasons 2-4 of Nickelodeon's '' Doug''; it did not return to the series after The Walt Disney Company bought the ''Doug'' intellectual property and Jumbo Pictures. On the occasion of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June 2022, the Média-Participations group announced the creation of an umbrella brand Ellipse Animation which brings together its production labels in France Ellipsanime Productions, Dargaud Media and Dupuis Edition & Audiovisual. Histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Média-Participations
Média-Participations () is a French media concern, controlled by a Belgian holding concern, specialized in Franco-Belgian comics. It has some forty publishers in its portfolio, including Dupuis, Dargaud, Le Lombard, Fleurus, La Martinière, and Abrams. History Média-Participations was created in 1986 by Rémy Montagne, a politician who had been a member of the French Parliament for three decades before starting in the publishing business. After his death in 1991, he was succeeded by his son Vincent. The company was first called Ampère and focused on the acquisition of a number of struggling Christian publishing houses like Fleurus. In 1986, the group changed its name to Média-Participations and focused more on Franco-Belgian comics, which started when they acquired Le Lombard in 1986 and Dargaud in 1988. In July 2003, Média-Participations alongside their publishing house Dargaud announced they had acquires Paris-based French animation production studio Ellipsanime from i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dargaud Marina
Dargaud Marina (formerly Marina Productions and currently Dargaud Media) is a French production company owned by Dargaud that produces animation, documentaries, and feature-length films. The company was founded as Marina Productions by Claude Berthier in 1990, which was acquired by Dargaud in June 1997 and was renamed in 1999. Productions Recent productions airing on French and foreign channels include: * ''Valérian'', co-produced by France 3. * ''Boule & Bill''/''Billy and Buddy'', co-produced by TF1. * ''L'Ile de Black Mor'' (Theatrical). * ''Les Aventures Fantastiques du Commandant Cousteau''/''Jacques Cousteau's Ocean Tales'' (France 3). * ''Kitou Scrogneugneu'' (TF1), adapted from the book of the same name by A. Rocard, M. Degano, and F. Ruyer, published by Fleurus. * ''The New Adventures of Lucky Luke'' (France 3). * ''Les Fils de Rome''/''Roma, 101 AD'' on M6. * ''Princesse du Nil''/''Princess of the Nile'' (France 2). * ''La Dernière Réserve''/''The Last Reservation'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Goscinny
René Goscinny (; ; 14 August 1926 – 5 November 1977) was a French comic editor and writer, who created the ''Asterix, Astérix'' comic book series with illustrator Albert Uderzo. Born in France to a Jewish family from Poland, he spent his childhood in Argentina where he attended French schools and later lived in the United States for a short period of time. There he met Belgian cartoonist Morris (cartoonist), Morris. After his return to France, they collaborated for more than 20 years on the comic series ''Lucky Luke'' (in what was considered the series' golden age). He wrote ''Iznogoud'' with Jean Tabary. Goscinny also wrote a series of children's books known as ''Le Petit Nicolas'' (''Little Nicolas'') illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé. Early life Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, to Jews, Jewish immigrants from Poland. His parents were Stanisław Simkha Gościnny, a chemical engineer from Warsaw, and Anna (Hanna) Bereśniak-Gościnna from Chodorków (modern-day ), a smal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucky Luke
''Lucky Luke'' is a Western (genre), Western bande dessinée, comic album series created by Belgian cartoonist Morris (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 collaborated with 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 frontier, 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 Daltons (Lucky Luke), the Dalton Brothers, loosely based on the Dalton Gang o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Michel Charlier
Jean-Michel Charlier (; 30 October 1924 – 10 July 1989) was a Belgian comics writer. He was a co-founder of the famed Franco-Belgian comics magazine '' Pilote''. Life Charlier was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1924.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Jean-Michel Charlier". In België gestript, . Tielt: Lannoo. In 1945 he got a job as a draughtsman in Brussels with World Press, the syndicate of Georges Troisfontaines, which worked mainly for '' Spirou'' magazine. The following year he and artist Victor Hubinon created the four-page comic strip ''L'Agonie du Bismarck''. Charlier wrote the script and also drew the ships and airplanes. In 1947, Charlier and Hubinon began the long-running air-adventure comic strip '' Buck Danny''. After a few years, Charlier stopped all work on the drawings and concentrated only on the scenarios, on the advice of Jijé, then the senior artist at ''Spirou''. Unable to support himself writing comic scripts at a time when Dupuis concentrated almost solel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asterix
''Asterix'' ( or , "Asterix the Gauls, Gaul"; also known as ''Asterix and Obelix'' in some adaptations or ''The Adventures of Asterix'') is a Franco-Belgian comics, French comic album book series, series about a Gaulish village which, thanks to a Potion, magic potion that enhances strength, resists the forces of Julius Caesar's Roman Republic Roman Army, Army in a nonhistorical telling of the time after the Gallic Wars. Many adventures take the titular hero Asterix (character), Asterix and his friend Obelix to Rome and beyond. The series first appeared in the Franco-Belgian comic magazine ''Pilote'' on 29 October 1959. It was written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo until Goscinny's death in 1977. Uderzo then took over the writing until 2009, when he sold the rights to publishing company Hachette (publisher), Hachette; he died in 2020. In 2013, a new team consisting of Jean-Yves Ferri (script) and Didier Conrad (artwork) took over. , 40 volumes have been re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilote
''Pilote'' (), for a while subtitled ''the magazine of Asterix and Obelix'' (French: ''Le Journal D’Astérix et D’Obélix'' ) was a French comics magazine published from 1959 to 1989. Showcasing most of the major Franco-Belgian comics, French or Belgian comics talents of its day the magazine introduced major series such as ''Astérix'', ''Redbeard (comics), Barbe-Rouge'', ''Blueberry (comics), Blueberry'', ''Achille Talon'', and ''Valérian and Laureline, Valérian et Laureline''. Major comics writers like René Goscinny, Jean-Michel Charlier, Greg (comics), Greg, Pierre Christin and Jacques Lob were featured in the magazine, as were artists such as Jijé, Morris (comics), Morris, Albert Uderzo, Jean Giraud, Jean (Mœbius) Giraud, Enki Bilal, Jean-Claude Mézières, Jacques Tardi, Philippe Druillet, Marcel Gotlib, Alexis (comics), Alexis, and Annie Goetzinger. ''Pilote'' also published several international talents such as Hugo Pratt, Frank Bellamy and Robert Crumb. History F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kana (publisher)
Kana is a French publisher affiliated with Les Éditions Dargaud. ''Kana'' was founded in 1996 by Yves Schlirf. The company publishes manga in French and used to publish in Dutch. Its headquarters are in the Dargaud offices in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. Titles *'' A Chinese Life'' (''Une vie chinoise'') * '' Absolute Boyfriend'' * '' Angel Nest'' * ''Bakuman'' * '' Black Butler'' * '' Baiyaku Kakebachō Kazuryū'' * ''Case Closed'' * '' Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction'' * ''Doraemon'' * ''GE – Good Ending'' * '' Goodnight Punpun'' * '' Harlock Saga'' * '' Honey and Clover'' * ''Hunter × Hunter'' * '' I Am a Hero'' *'' In Clothes Called Fat'' * '' Me and the Devil Blues'' * ''Monster'' * '' Mushishi'' *'' No. 5'' * '' Piece – Kanojo no Kioku'' * ''Pluto'' * '' Psychometrer Eiji'' * '' The Rose of Versailles'' * '' Saint Seiya: Time Odyssey'' * '' Saturn Apartments'' * ''Sgt. Frog'' * ''Shaman King'' * ''Si loin et si proche'' * '' Snow White with the Red Hair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Twelve Tasks Of Asterix
''The Twelve Tasks of Asterix'' (') is a French animated feature film, written and directed by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, produced by Dargaud Films and Studios Idéfix, and distributed by Gaumont. It is the third animated film based on the ''Asterix'' comic book series, while the first to feature an original story by Goscinny and Uderzo, the series' creators, and is the only ''Asterix'' film to be produced using xerography animation techniques. The film's plot revolves around Asterix and Obelix attempting to complete a series of tough challenges set by Julius Caesar, who seeks to prove they and their fellow villagers are not gods. The film starred Roger Carel, and Jacques Morel; while the English cast included Sean Barrett, and Geoffrey Russell. ''The Twelve Tasks of Asterix'' received mixed review regarding the tone of the story and frequent breaks in the fourth wall, but gained popularity over the years to later be considered one of the best ''Asterix'' films, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
