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L'Association
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'', formerly ''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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mattt Konture
Mattt Konture (born September 27, 1965) is a French people, French underground comics author Lambiek Comiclopedia. and musician. He is one of the founders of the French publishing house L'Association and is a forerunner of the French autobiographical comics movement. Biography Konture grew up in Lozère, where his influences included ''Métal Hurlant'' artists like Marc Caro, Doury, Rita Mercedes, and Jean Giraud, Moebius. Konture published his first comics in 1982 (at the age of 17) in magazines such as ''Viper'' ("L’ajeun") and ''Le Lynx'' ("Les Exploits de Ted" with Jean-Christophe Menu). When Konture went to Paris he published his first comics, ''Nerf'', on an old Xerox machine. L’Association later reprinted this first book. His first comic book was ''Ruga Zébo Violent'', first volume of the "Pattes de Mouc ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Christophe Menu
Jean-Christophe Menu (; born 23 August 1964) is a French underground cartoonist, graphic designer, comics scholar and publisher, son of the Egyptologist Bernadette Menu. He is best known for being one of the founders of L'Association, an influential comic book and art book publishing company from France often regarded as one of the key figures in the independent comic movement around the world. Biography Beginnings Menu started his careers as a comic artist and as a publisher simultaneously when he launched the fanzines ''Le Lynx à Tifs'' and ''Le Journal de Lapot'' in 1981. In 1984 he started working for '' Psikopat'', where he introduced the character Meder. Soon, his work was found in various comic magazines like ''Tintin'', '' Spirou'', ''Fripounet and Jade'' in the Franco-Belgian comics world as well as '' Rip Off Comix'' and '' Weirdo'' in the United States. Futuropolis published his book ''Le Portrait de Lurie Ginol'' and a new magazine called ''Labo'' which only last ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Baudoin
Edmond Baudoin (; born 23 April 1942) 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'Association ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrice Killoffer
Patrice Killoffer, better known simply as Killoffer (born 16 June 1966), is a writer and artist of comics. He was co-founder of the independent comics publisher L'Association in 1990, and has been a part of Oubapo since its creation in 1992. Career Patrice Killoffer studied at the School for Applied Arts Duperré in Paris in the 1980s. His teachers included comics authors Georges Pichard and Yves Got, who influenced him in his early works. He created his first pages in 1981, during his studies. In 1987, he made the first issue of the magazine ''Pas un seul'' with Jean-Yves Duhoo. In the following years, he published in the magazines ''Globof'', ''Lynx'', and ''Labo'', which was published by Futuropolis. Since 1990, he publishes regularly in '' Lapin'', the magazine of publisher ''L'Association'', which later published three of his albums. More recently, he has published in the magazine '' Psikopat'' and he produces illustrations for the newspapers ''Libération'' and ''Le Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi (; ; born 22 November 1969) is a French-Iranian graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author. Her best-known works include the graphic novel ''Persepolis (comics), Persepolis'' and Persepolis (film), its film adaptation, the graphic novel ''Chicken with Plums'', ''Woman, Life, Freedom'' and the Marie Curie biopic ''Radioactive (film), Radioactive''. Biography Early life Satrapi was born in Rasht, Iran, where she spent her first twenty days before the family moved to Tehran, where she grew up in an upper-middle class Iranian family and attended the French-language school Razi High School, Lycée Razi. Both her parents were politically active and supported leftist causes against the monarchy of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah. Her maternal great-grandfather, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Nasser-al-Din Shah, was the Persian emperor from 1848 to 1896. Satrapi has mentioned that her maternal grandfather was once the governor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Doucet
Julie Doucet (born December 31, 1965) is a Canadian underground cartoonist and artist, best known for her autobiographical works such as '' Dirty Plotte'' 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 |
Persepolis (comic)
''Persepolis'' is a series of autobiographical graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi that depict her childhood and 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, ''Persepolis'' has been translated to many other languages. , it has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. 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 the film adaptation. Due to its graphic language and images, there is controversy surrounding the use of ''Persepolis'' in classrooms in the United States. ''Persepolis'' was featured on the American Library Assoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Trondheim
Laurent Chabosy (; born 11 December 1964), better known as Lewis Trondheim (), is a French cartoonist and one of the founders (in 1990) of the independent publisher L'Association. Both his silent comic ''La Mouche'' and Kaput and Zösky have been made into animated cartoons. A figure in Franco-Belgian comics whose career began in the early 1990s, Trondheim is mostly known as the author of ''Les formidables aventures de Lapinot'' (translated to English as '' The Spiffy Adventures of McConey'') and the co-creator of comic fantasy series ''Dungeon'' with Joann Sfar, as well as his autobiographical series ''Les petits riens'' (translated to English as ''Little Nothings''). As an artist, Trondheim is known for his "potato-shaped" characters and anthropomorphic animals, in a minimalistic style reminiscent of '' ligne claire''. His works often feature witty dialogue and characters in surreal or darkly humorous situations, where comedy may intertwine with tragedy. Working with seve ... [...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. The book's layout resembles that of a dictionary A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged Alphabetical order, alphabetically (or by Semitic root, consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical-and-stroke sorting, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joann Sfar
Joann Sfar (; born 28 August 1971) is a French comics artist, comic book creator, novelist, and film director. Life and career Sfar was born in Nice, the son of Lilou, a pop singer, who died when he was three, and André Sfar, a lawyer well known for prosecuting Neo-Nazis. As a result of his mother's early death, Sfar was raised by his father and maternal grandfather, a military doctor of Ukrainian origin in the Alsace-Lorraine Independent Brigade (France) during World War II. Sfar's grandfather reportedly saved the right hand of the brigade's leader, novelist André Malraux, for which he was awarded French citizenship. Sfar is considered one of the most important artists of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics, though he has rejected the assertion that he, along with artists such as Christophe Blain, Marjane Satrapi, and Lewis Trondheim, sought to create an alternative scene or a new movement in comics. Many of his comics were published by L'Association which was founded ... [...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] |
Comics
a Media (communication), medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of Panel (comics), panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, Glossary of comics terminology#Caption, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information. There is no consensus among theorists and historians on a definition of comics; some emphasize the combination of images and text, some sequentiality or other image relations, and others historical aspects such as mass reproduction or the use of recurring characters. Cartoonist, Cartooning and other forms of illustration are the most common means of image-making in comics. Photo comics is a form that uses photographic images. Common forms include comic strips, Political cartoon, editorial and gag cartoons, and comic books. Since the late 20th century, bound volumes such as graphic novels, and Bande dessinée ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
