All PostsI recently started following the webcomics site GrandPapier, which is primarily in French, but has a number of mute or English strips too. Lots of comics to read there, with a variety of styles that are pretty unusual for webcomics.
A few recommendations:
Éclosion by Gaspard Ryelandt: Lovely blue art.
Surface by Sacha Georg: I’ve written about Georg’s work before. This is an ongoing story. The artwork, particularly the colors and the landscapes are really attractive. Even if you can’t read it, you can just look. Here’s a great page involving the protagonist entering some kind of weird structure (the purple):
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Robin Hood by Simon Roussin: The marker art is great.
Punk is Dead by Max De Radigués: A 24 hour comic. Lots of other work by him on there too. Kind of teen slacker type stories, as far as I’ve seen.
I should also point out that they have a really effective and easy to use interface.
GrandPapier is a project of the Belgian publisher L’Employé de Moi who have a number of interesting looking books. For instance, the anthology Polyominos contains works by 20 cartoonists. Each of them made a single page, wordless comic, of 20 panels, and then created a second single page comic by reordering those 20 panels. The examples (at the link above) are pretty interesting, particularly the Max de Radigués pages.
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Max de Radigués is also going to be the fellow at The Center for Cartoon Studies this year, he’s awesome!
Yeah, I saw that on his blog.
Derik, do you have any other French comics-related websites of note that you reccommend? I have a smattering of webcomics (les petits riens, etc) and news sights that I follow, but my knowledge of what is out there on the web at this point is still fairly limited (and my faultering French does tend to play a subverting role, too…)
Ur, news *sites*, that is..
Hey Travis. The main French comics site I follow is du9.org (which I’m actually going to be writing for soon). They do reviews, news, and interviews, and more often lately they offer English translations. I’ve not taken time to find many more sites, as that one alone leads to way more bd than I can get/afford.
As far as webcomics go, I’ve not spent a lot of time exploring. GrandPapier was the first big euro-webcomics (webbd? I’ve got to ask someone what they call webcomics in French) sites I found.
Sorry, that’s not very helpful. I’ll post about more if/when I find any.
I was recently asked if I wanted to contribute to GrandPapier, and have now been doing so for a number of weeks. I find the style of the comics on the site to be so much more playful than US or UK comics. There’s a real freshness about the approach there which made me realise how staid English language comix have become.
looking forward to seeing you on du9, derik.
I’m working on something, hoping to get it done this weekend.
[...] wrote about the Belgian webcomic site Grandpapier back in August when I first started reading it. In September this comic starting appearing irregularly. There are [...]