Bande Dessinee

20 Sep 2009

The Photographer

Richard Bruton over at Forbidden Planet sings up some praise for Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefevre and Frederic Lemercier's 'The Photographer'. The Photographer, thankfully, lives up to the promise and then some. It’s no short read either, the amount of visual and written information that the ... Read More
7 Sep 2009

Translation: Poison River and the vertiginous ellipsis

Derik Badman takes apart translates an article originally written in French in which David Turgeon takes apart Gilbert Hernandez's Poison River and sees what makes it tick for French site du9.org. The density of narration, the abundance of situations in a limited space, and ... Read More
1 Sep 2009

Grandpapier

Derik Badman writes a brief post on Grandpapier, a project started by Belgian publisher L’Employé de Moi. The site features work in French and English as well as a number of wordless strips. Recent Comics Bureau postee ... Read More
5 Aug 2009

Lewis Trondheim

Following a recommendation by Aiden Smith, here is a good review of Lewis Trondheim and Olivier Appollodorus' Bourbon Island 1730 over at Madinkbeard, which discusses POV and narration. A ten page preview is available at First Second Books. If you haven't heard of ... Read More