vendredi 18 décembre 2009

Guillaume Griffon : l'interview

Une interview de Guillaume Griffon, dont le premier opus de la trilogie Apocalypse sur Carson City arrivera chez vos libraires le 4 février 2010, mais que vous pourrez découvrir en avant-première au festival d'Angoulême...


mardi 8 décembre 2009

The New York Times

Ça n'est pas tous les jours que nous avons un ouvrage chroniqué dans le New York Times Book Review. C'est même la première fois...
Nous ne résistons donc pas au plaisir reproduire cette chronique ici :

"Peter de Sève is much better known than kamishibai artists [a reference from the first section of this article] , but he does the same job of telling stories. His numerous covers for The New Yorker tell ironic tales of the city. “Panhandler,” a fanciful drawing of the mythical half man, half goat Pan playing his proverbial pipes on a New York street corner, is as farcical as it is evocative of the real talents who busk for loose change. De Sève’s “Through the Wringer,” showing a flabby naked man walking through an airport metal detector (ignored by all the passers- by), captures the way many people actually feel when going through the ordeal. These and many more illustrations are collected in a gorgeously designed coffee-table book, A SKETCHY PAST: The Art of Peter de Sève (Akileos).

The sketches implied in the title are probably the best part. De Sève’s finished pieces are very fluid and impressionistic while totally representational, with hints of caricature at every turn. But his looser sketches are the real masterpieces of visual erudition. He depicts character and expression so completely with only a few well-composed lines and shades. And among the most delightful, in a book that will doubtless serve as a textbook for today’s aspiring artists, are production sketches for the animated “Ice Age” films, for which he designed the amazing characters (under the supervision of the director Chris Wedge, who wrote the book’s foreword). Although de Sève is certainly a people person, drawingwise, I haven’t seen such a master with animals since John James Audubon — if Audubon had done caricatures of prehistoric creatures, that is."

Voilà !

vendredi 4 décembre 2009

Nominé


Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer que l'album Hector Umbra, de Uli Oesterle, est nominé pour le prochain Festival International de la BD d'Angoulême !
Joie !