Comics, comics and manga are celebrated in all their forms at the Pompidou Center until’in November. l’The main exhibition, “Comics, 1964-2024”, allows you to discover the IX Art through a dozen themes, from dreams to laughter, through black and white or’anticipation.
So many themes that testify to the liveliness of the’comics industry – and that’can be found in numerous publications in recent months.
Children’s series, superhero stories, autobiographical stories… Here you have a selection of news to extend your visit.
• Only
Only, the series that makes children think about death, is renewed. The comic by Bruno Gazzotti and Fabien Vehlmann, sold for 3 million’exemplary, returns with a new cycle. “We move the plot forward, not revealing too many things at the end.’a cycle, what I’We had a certain tendency to do it, but with each album, great revelations,” promises Fabien Vehlmann. “We simplify the problems and’getting closer to the final goal.” The sequel is already scheduled for November.
Solo, volume 14, The Protectors, Bruno Gazzotti (drawing) and Fabien Vehlmann (script), Rue de Sèvres, 48 pages, 12.95 euros.
Two illustrations of hellish boy signed by Mike Mignola are on display at the Pompidou Center while, on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of this great comic, a special edition will be launched that brings together the first volume of the main series, The germs of destructionand all the stories. Perfect to discover’universe of Mike Mignola, halfway between the fantastic tales of’Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft’s horror stories and Slavic mythology.
Hellboy – 30th Anniversary Special Edition, Mike Mignola, Delcourt, 416 pages, 39.95 euros.
• Small forest
Absent from the Pompidou Center, Daisuke Igarashi n’remains an absolute master of manga whose’work, too little known in France, could have appeared in the Paris museum as an example of’Contemplative and poetic work. Following the tradition of Jiro Taniguchi, Daisuke Igarashi sees one of his emblematic works, small forest, reissued after years of out of print. Tells about the daily life of’Ichiko and the dishes that’she invents, inspired by nature.
Little forest, Daisuke Igarashi, Delcourt/Tonkam, 352 pages, 15.99 euros.
• Distant shores
Figure d’A new generation whose style is halfway between manga and Franco-Belgian comics, Anaïs Flogny signs an ambitious first album, distant shores. A fresco located in the’world of the New York mafia and inspired by the masters of the genre Don Winslow and Pierre Lemaître. “J.’I wanted to deal with mafia stories in my own way by writing a story that’I wish I had read when I was younger. j’I want that’We read it like a movie,” confesses the designer, who scored some sequences from her comic in the series’ original soundtracks. Succession or the movie Babylon.
Distant shores, Anaïs Flogny, Dargaud, 240 pages, 19 euros.
• Bay of Pigs
Years go by and Spirou continues to renew and surprise. After staging his death two years ago, the Dupuis editions continue their adventures in a parallel story that sees the comic’s most famous boyfriend imprisoned in a Cuban prison by Fidel Castro. His only hopes: Fantasio and Seccotine. But she allows herself to be seduced by Che Guevara’s speeches.
Bay of Pigs, Michaël Baril, Clément Lemoine and Elric Dufau, Dupuis, 64 pages, 12.95 euros.
• He’s Lonely at the center of the Earth
The new darling of American comics, Zoe Thorogood, has conquered a wide audience with He’s Lonely at the center of the Earth. In this story of’autobiographical inspiration, she talks about his mental health and his fight against depression. An album built in part on the principle of’An endless day. “I thought it was funny that the book was restarted from scratch halfway through.’It was a fun way to talk about what I feel,” confesses the designer. “It’s’It is also something that I’I’ve never seen it in the comics.”
He’s Lonely at the Center of the Earth, Zoe Thorogood, Hi Comics, 200 pages, 27.95 euros.
• Vertigo
While the’Humanity is approaching its extinction, the last men take turns to build a new tower of Babel, Vertigeo, whose’A terrible secret kills them little by little. At the crossroads of two major themes of’exhibition at the Pompidou Center on the IX Art,’architecture and’anticipation, Vertigo will delight fans of SF-style architectural dystopias The dark cities EITHER Snow Punch.
Vertigéo, Amaury Bündgen and Lloyd Chéry, Casterman, 136 pages, 22 euros.
• Angry Clemency
Figure d’a political comic strip in the fight against the sexist excesses of our society, Mirion Malle returns with Angry Clemency. She continues the themes covered in her previous comics. against’It’s how I disappear AND Goodbye sad loveincluding the difficulty of rebuilding after trauma,’aid’a heroine who will learn to tame the anger that’animated. A reading with therapeutic virtues.
Angry Clémence, Mirion Malle, The city burns, 224 pages, 23 euros.
• Inside
The pieces of life constitute the’one of the greatest expressions of contemporary comics. Inside of the’The American Will McPhail, whose c’It is the first album, it is the test of following the day to day life of’a withdrawn young man who goes slowly’wake up the world Designer at New YorkerWill McPhail also testifies’formidable deadpan humor in this very moving story.
Inside by Will McPhail, 404 Comics, 280 pages, 26.50 euros.
• I have loved you for a long time
More and more comics deconstruct preconceived ideas about’love and old age. With I have loved you for a long timeMarie Spénale offers a rereading of Robinson Crusoe. An elderly woman in her sixties, shipwrecked on a desert island, has an unexpected encounter with a young mute islander who will awaken her desire. a character of’unpublished elderly heroine in comics.
I’ve Loved You for a Long Time by Marie Spénale, Casterman, 128 pages, 24 euros.
• Play wolf
Disappeared prematurely’Kuniko Tsurita, 37 years old in 1985, was one of the manga artists exhibited at the Pompidou. She is a little-known Japanese designer, the first woman to participate in the magazine.’foreground Garothat revolutionized manga in the 1960s, arises from’shade thanks to Atrabile editions. Two works that compile’The set of his work allows us to discover a rich and sensitive work.
Playing the wolf, Kuniko Tsurita, Atrabile, 264 pages, 25 euros.
• Henry Fleming’s struggle
Having become commonplace, literary adaptations in comics remain a genre that is often quite difficult to achieve. With The struggle of Henry Flemingd’After The red badge of courage by Stephen Crane, a famous pacifist text published at the end of the 19th century, the designer Steve Cuzor (Five branches of black cotton., soon adapted for Hollywood) accepts the challenge. And it differs from other attempts of the genre by a graphic treatment close to engraving.
Henry Fleming’s Combat, Steve Cuzor, Dupuis, 152 pages, 26 euros.
• New blood
l’Self-writing, or the autobiographical story, has become one of the most important genres of the IX Art in the last thirty years. The last and most surprising example: New blood by Jean-Christophe Chauzy, where’The author describes in detail his fight against myelofibrosis, a rare bone marrow cancer characterized by the inability to produce enough healthy blood cells.
New blood, Jean-Christophe Chauzy, Casterman, 256 pages, 26.90 euros.
Source: BFM TV
