This is the complete issue released after the January 7, 2015 attack.
Thank you to Heidi Ellison, founder of Paris Update, for this file. Paris Update brings you news about Paris happenings, restaurant reviews, and more in English. I recommend subscribing to the e-mail newsletter (I do!). Paris Update [...]
Picked these up at La Poste today, thought you’d like them. A high-res version with all twelve signs here.
The 2013 Paris Plages poster is by Kiraz of Playboy and Parisiennes fame. Don’t know who he is? We’ve written about him before!
Nothing has tickled our francophile fancy like this since Ratatouille ! A brand new Micky Mouse cartoon commissioned by Disney from Paul Rudish, the director of Dexter’s Laboratory and Powerpuff Girls.
Oh so retro and yet so modern (there’s the subtlest hint of a video game vibe in there).
Mickey and pals will be [...]
Mike Rosenthal (@vectorbelly) has created Twitter: The Comic, a Tumblr blog of comics made from tweets, some his own, some by others.
There’s some random, twisted stuff on Twitter, as you may have noticed. But it makes for some interesting art.
This one, of course, is our favorite.
Based [...]
Thought up by the French cartoonist Plantu, Cartooning for Peace is an initiative born on 16 October 2006 at UN headquarters in New York. A two-day conference organised by Kofi Annan, the then Secretary General of the United Nations, brought together the twelve best-known political cartoonists in the world for “unlearning [...]
Just out, an animated feature film by Joann Sfar and Antoine Delesvaux, based on Sfar’s graphic novel of the same name. Sfar also directed the fabulous and fantastical Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque).
Buy The Rabbi’s Cat at the Francophilia Amazon store!
Interested in bande dessinée and erotica? The French are very good at both, the former being a revered art form, the latter a fundamental element of their collective consciousness… Check out BDerotique, a blog devoted entirely to the subject of erotic comics.
NOTE: The images on this blog can be very graphic, so [...]
Les Aventures de Tintin, by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) coming to theaters in December! Here’s the official Tintin site. Get your Tintin books in the Francophilia Amazon store!
John Coulthart at feuilleton turned me on to the late 60s–early 70s French magazine Plexus, a sexy offshoot of Planète. [...] It’s an intriguing mix of surreal-fantastic-psychedelic art, interviews with writers (Jacques Sternberg was the literary editor), Playboy-style comics and the occasional Popeye comic, science fiction stories, Gilles de Rais profiles, philosophy, and—though [...]
The upcoming 2012 presidential elections in France are shaping up to be a pretty big farce, not helped by the fact that the major candidates all seem to have the same names… See the rest of the odd couples at Les couples des présidentielles – L’actu en patates on the Le Monde blog.
A silver-haired aristocrat thunders through the palatial offices of the French foreign ministry quoting Greek philosophers and demanding his speech-writers pepper their efforts with poetry. The fictional eccentric, Alexandre Taillard de Vorms, is France’s least likely comic-book hero.
via The Guardian
Jean-Pierre Amoreau, the owner of the estate in France that produces Château Le Puy wine, has experienced a huge boom in demand for his product after the Japanese manga series “The Drops of God” [Les Gouttes de Dieu / 神の雫] featured it as one of the world’s finest wines.
via Japan Probe
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, world-famous as France’s first lady and as a model and singer, has now been “immortalized” — as a comic-book heroine, an American publisher said.
via AFP
Mac Guff, the Paris-based animation company behind Despicable Me, will take on the Gauls in a new 3D adventure fronted by Alexandre Astier.
via Collider
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