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(l-r, front row Igort, Isabel Kreitz, Max, Nicolas de Crécy; standing, Jaromir 99 and Jaroslav Rudiš)
Euro comics week in NYC continued with an evening of slideshows and presentations by David B., Nicolas de Crécy, Igort, Jaromír 99, Isabel Kreitz, Max, and Jaroslav Rudiš, some of the finest cartoonists in the world, so it was quite the time. B. showed slides from THE EPILEPTIC and described his thinking process behind his powerful imagery. Igort showed off an evocative selection of slides of images and comics that have influenced his own dreamlike stories. Kreitz — perhaps the only German cartoonist we have ever met — described the lack of opportunities for cartoonists in Germany (it’s another Disney-centric country, and there is almost no local comics scene, aside from some self-publishing). She also showed a trailer for her DIE SACHE MIT SORGE, a breathtakingly illustrated retelling of the true-life tale of Russian spy Richard Sorge. (You can watch the trailer below.) The Czech duo of Jaromir and Jaroslav, the least well known of the touring ‘toonists, spoke in broad terms about their influences and work. Max delved into some of the surrealist influences on his character Bardin, the Superrealist, such as Fuseli’s Nightmare paintings. De Crécy rounded out the evening with a slideshow of his pages — the combined effect of seeing so much of his fantastic, gorgeous work was sort of overwhelming, and it’s hard to imagine that there’s a better artist working in comics today. His only large-scale work published here in America is GLACIAL PERIOD, available from NBM, but one hopes that will change.
There was an SRO crowd at MoCCA for the event, and last night’s David Mazzucchelli-led talk at SVA was also packed. Seeing a healthy audience for European artists of this caliber in New York, at least, comes as a nice vindication of the job American and Canadian publishers are doing to get their work over here.
9 Comments on A night of European comics, last added: 11/25/2008
You really do never sleep. It was great to see you last night and a terrific event. I’m sorry our conversation got cut off, the price I pay for working the bar. Thanks for posting the trailer, I wanted to tell some people about it.
tucker Stone said, on 11/21/2008 12:34:00 PM
Do you have access to that other commercial they showed, the Czech one? That was really impressive.
Synsidar said, on 11/21/2008 10:09:00 PM
If the Czech commercial in question is a trailer for the Czech film ALOIS NEBEL, that trailer is widely available online.
SRS
Torsten Adair said, on 11/22/2008 8:06:00 AM
A note on Germany… there are few newsstand comics, mostly Disney with a few licensed superheroes. Of note are the thick paperbacks containing lesser Disney stories.
Few comicstrips are published in newspapers. Stern has a few. They are published in book form.
There is a vibrant publishers market, dominated by Ehapa and Carlsen. Most of what sells is licensed from elsewhere: USA, France, Belgium, Japan. The Continent understands graphic novels. Bookstores readily carry them. Comicbookstores are specialty retailers, and do import English language comics via Diamond.
Wilhelm Busch is the godfather of German Comics. The Max and Moritz Prize is named after his most famous characters. His archives are the nucleus of the German comics museum, located in Hanover, Germany.
The secondary education system in Germany is more specialized, so there is a great opportunity for homegrown talent.
Erlangen hosts a biennial comics salon, similar in spirit to MoCCAfest, but with the entire city involved. 2010.
Stephen Betts said, on 11/23/2008 3:46:00 PM
Hi there,
I’m really pleased there’s been such a great reaction in New York to the European comics artists. Anyone interested in discussing European comics could do a lot worse than joining the Comix Influx Discussion list, one of the only web forums dedicated to international comics.
“Few comicstrips are published in newspapers. Stern has a few.”
that’s partly wrong. a lot of german newspapers carry comicstrips, but most of them are licensed material. but so far, only three newspapers carry their own daily strip by german artists (named “strizz”, “im museum”, “touché”), some more carry some homegrown weeklys. “der stern” ain’t a newspaper, it’s a news magazine, i.e it’s published weekly. almost all of these strips and one-pagers are also published in bookform.
isabel kreitz herself started her career as a studioartist for a german comic strip and later developed her own series. kreitz is heavily influenced by the american studio-system, as you especially can see in her early works, her own strips (not her studio-work), short-storys and the four horror-graphic-novels, which show influences by eisner and the ec-horror-line, which is rather unusual for a german comic artist, especially a female one.
at the frankfurt book fair in october this year i had put her together with jason lutes for a panel-talk about historical graphic novels, where she amazed lutes with the fact, that she had writen and drawn that whole, brillant “sorge”-thing (240 pages) within 12 months.
John McCorkle said, on 11/24/2008 10:38:00 AM
“His only large-scale work published here in America is GLACIAL PERIOD”
Nope. His 60 page graphic novel “Foligatto” was published in the HEAVY METAL March 1992 issue.
Jose M Mendez said, on 11/24/2008 6:09:00 PM
If any of you is interested, I have posted a hadnful of pics from the discussion at the School of Visual Arts on my Flickr page:
Thanks for linking the “Richard Sorge”-trailer and for the compliments. If you’re interested, here is the link to my youtube-site, where you can find two older films I made:
NBM is handing out a booklet with samplers of some pretty good comics to try:
• A complete story from NOCTURNAL CONSPIRACIES by David B. (the acclaimed Epileptic).
• A complete story from MORESUKINE, Dirk Schwieger’s comics blog revealing the oddities of life in Japan. Schwieger will be signing at the NBM booth in the convention’s exhibit hall.
• Sunday comics from HAPPY HOOLIGAN, the new volume of NBM’s series FOREVER NUTS: CLASSIC SCREWBALL STRIPS.
• An excerpt from WHY I KILLED PETER, a tale of an abusive priest by one of his victims.
• An excerpt from MISS DON’T TOUCH ME, a spicy suspense story.
NBM’s booth is #1528
0 Comments on SD08: NBM offers free comics samplers as of 1/1/1900
Filtering is expensive but no one knows how expensive. Should a porn filter for your library cost $100 or $1000 or $10000? Should you pay less for one that works less well? Is it even acceptable to have one that doesn’t work? Do any porn filters actually work completely well, any at all?
The filter in the story was created, at a cost of $84 million, and would be made available free to every family in Australia. This is in addition to the government wanting to require all ISPs to make a filtering option available with their services. A quick read of this second article indicates that the filters aren’t just for porn, or rather there are varieties of the filter one of which also filters chat rooms. Now chat rooms can be used for porn but they can also be used in many other legitimate ways. I’d argue legitimate uses account for almost all chatroom use among children and young adults. So, beware of mission creep. If you’re trying to stop kids from looking at explicit sex pictures, that’s one thing. If you’re trying to stop them from communicating with others or being communicated with in ways you don’t approve of, be above board about it.
Any librarian who has to work with filtering software knows the ways that kids or others get around it. There’s the Google cache hack, the Google images hack, anonymous proxies, proxies from home and many many more. If you can get to the internet at all, you can figure out, usually, how to get to the rest of the Internet.
The service is evolving and recently added whitelisting and proxy blocking.
Of course no filter works “completely well”, but is that the point?
David Ulevitch said, on 8/29/2007 1:42:00 PM
Yeah, what Kruthy says is right. Our filter is pretty dang good, and it’s price is better than $84,000,000. It’s Free. :-)
Meg said, on 8/30/2007 10:55:00 AM
I don’t disagree with what the Aussie government is doing, actually, aside from the price tag associated with it. It seems to me that rather than forcing filters which don’t work on everyone (via financial penalties in public schools/libraries, like in the US *cough*), they’ve provided them for people who want them. And they’ve provided two levels, so if you know you’d somehow mess up setting up the filtering software on your computer, you can ask your ISP to filter your connection. They’ve provided varying levels of control for people who want to attempt to block varying levels of whatever according to their beliefs or kids’ ages.
I think that’s reasonable. I’m all for adults being able to make that decision for their families, so long as accompanying the software/filtering is notification that it’s an imperfect science and may screw up a lot.
You really do never sleep. It was great to see you last night and a terrific event. I’m sorry our conversation got cut off, the price I pay for working the bar. Thanks for posting the trailer, I wanted to tell some people about it.
Do you have access to that other commercial they showed, the Czech one? That was really impressive.
If the Czech commercial in question is a trailer for the Czech film ALOIS NEBEL, that trailer is widely available online.
SRS
A note on Germany… there are few newsstand comics, mostly Disney with a few licensed superheroes. Of note are the thick paperbacks containing lesser Disney stories.
Few comicstrips are published in newspapers. Stern has a few. They are published in book form.
There is a vibrant publishers market, dominated by Ehapa and Carlsen. Most of what sells is licensed from elsewhere: USA, France, Belgium, Japan. The Continent understands graphic novels. Bookstores readily carry them. Comicbookstores are specialty retailers, and do import English language comics via Diamond.
Wilhelm Busch is the godfather of German Comics. The Max and Moritz Prize is named after his most famous characters. His archives are the nucleus of the German comics museum, located in Hanover, Germany.
The secondary education system in Germany is more specialized, so there is a great opportunity for homegrown talent.
Erlangen hosts a biennial comics salon, similar in spirit to MoCCAfest, but with the entire city involved. 2010.
Hi there,
I’m really pleased there’s been such a great reaction in New York to the European comics artists. Anyone interested in discussing European comics could do a lot worse than joining the Comix Influx Discussion list, one of the only web forums dedicated to international comics.
Comix Influx: the collaborative comics translation website. Visit http://comixinflux.com/.
Stephen Betts.
“Few comicstrips are published in newspapers. Stern has a few.”
that’s partly wrong. a lot of german newspapers carry comicstrips, but most of them are licensed material. but so far, only three newspapers carry their own daily strip by german artists (named “strizz”, “im museum”, “touché”), some more carry some homegrown weeklys. “der stern” ain’t a newspaper, it’s a news magazine, i.e it’s published weekly. almost all of these strips and one-pagers are also published in bookform.
isabel kreitz herself started her career as a studioartist for a german comic strip and later developed her own series. kreitz is heavily influenced by the american studio-system, as you especially can see in her early works, her own strips (not her studio-work), short-storys and the four horror-graphic-novels, which show influences by eisner and the ec-horror-line, which is rather unusual for a german comic artist, especially a female one.
at the frankfurt book fair in october this year i had put her together with jason lutes for a panel-talk about historical graphic novels, where she amazed lutes with the fact, that she had writen and drawn that whole, brillant “sorge”-thing (240 pages) within 12 months.
“His only large-scale work published here in America is GLACIAL PERIOD”
Nope. His 60 page graphic novel “Foligatto” was published in the HEAVY METAL March 1992 issue.
If any of you is interested, I have posted a hadnful of pics from the discussion at the School of Visual Arts on my Flickr page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/workinpana/sets/72157609903268766/
Thanks for linking the “Richard Sorge”-trailer and for the compliments. If you’re interested, here is the link to my youtube-site, where you can find two older films I made: