In the September 2017 issue of the french magazine ‘Regard Bouddhiste’, you will find an interview with Cosey.
The interview doesn’t focus so much on Buddhism in the works of Cosey itself, but it does focus on the issue of ‘creativity’: the moment of inspiration and surprise and how to invent a story. Even if Cosey has talked much about his way of working in earlier interviews, this one certainly sheds new light on his thoughts.
The website of ‘Regard Bouddhiste’: click here.
In the autumn issue (nr 269-3/2017) of the magazine ‘La Montagne & Alpinisme’, you can read an interview with Cosey, title ‘Au-delà des frontières’ (which can be translated more or less as ‘Across borders’).
It is a portrait, following Cosey’s career from its early beginnings, working for an advertsing company, his apprenticeship with Derib, the Jonathan albums, ‘Bouddha d ‘Azur’ until ‘Calypso’… Cosey speaks about his love for mountains and his travels to Tibet. He explains why drawing mountains is so fascinating – shapes and forms that are abstract and figurative art at the same time.
For experts on Cosey, the interview doesn’t contain much news – if you are interested in the man behind the comics, it is a good read.
Visit the site of La Montagne & Alpinisme.
Thanks to Philippe Regottaz
Finally, a good visual of the Calypso cover has been published by Futuropolis.
Of course, we all like the colours of Cosey… but this double page in the Calypso album convinced me that in Calypso I won’t miss colours.
On 27 july, Le Monde published no less than 55 pages of ‘Calypso’, the new album of Cosey that will appear in bookstores on 12 october. The tiny image above is probably the album cover, but I could’t find confirmation of this on the Futuropolis webiste or online bookstores. Personally, I hate to read pre-publications and I only took a quick look: it looks marvelous!
You can read the first 55 pages of Calypso on the website of Le Monde: click here.
French newspaper Le Monde will pre-publish large parts of the new Cosey album Calypso. This summer, Le Monde runs a series of five pre-publications of comics by well-known comic artists like Zep and Taniguchi. On 27 july, you can find several pages of the new story in the paper.
For those of you who have patience or who want the complete story at once: the album will appear in october.
Link to the site of Le Monde.
Thanks to Claude Stern & Bernard Matthey-Doret
The website leslibraires.fr is the first one with a introduction/summary of Calypso, that will appear this october. Personally, I don’t like to read summaries before reading the book itself, and that is why I only post this image of the website with a text that is difficult to read.
If you are too curious and want to read the summary, go to this website.
Thanks to Dinu Logoz
Every year since 1905, a new edition of the famous french encyclopedic dictionary ‘Le Petit Larousse’ is published. 21 June, the 2018 edition will be in the bookstores. Larousse announces some 150 new words, and 50 new entries of personalities, like the new french president Emmanuel Macron.
One of the personalities to be introduced in this 2018 editions is… Cosey. As yet, I don’t know if he is listed under his artist name or under his real name Cosendai.
Winning the Grand Prix of Angoulême is one thing, making it to the de Larousse is quite another kind of canonisation…
Thanks to Bernard Matthey-Doret
If you visit Switzerland this summer, you could go to the Place du 1er août in Lancy. There, you see this mural, based on the iconic cover of ‘À la recherche de Peter Pan’.
A picture made during the official unveiling, yesterday. Right in the middle you can see Cosey. This photo gives a good impression of the huge size of the mural.
Looking for more pictures of the mural, I found this one of the ‘Work in progress’ of the mural.
La Gazzetto dello Sport, the famous italian sports newspaper is also the publisher of a series of classic comic albums. The entire Jonathan series will be published by them, in eight volumes, each containing two stories.
More information on the site of La Gazzetto.
21 april, at the Ferme de la Buisson (France), the artist Muma made this work, based on a drawing of Cosey. It was made of 20.000 candles, put in place by 300 volunteers.
For a video of the event, click here.
This is the cover of the 6th Jonathan Intégrale, containing the volumes 15 (Atsuko) and 16 (Celle qui fut). It is somewhat different from the dummy cover I posted a few months ago. The album will be in shops in june.
‘Calypso’ is the title of Cosey’s new album that will appear this autumn. The album will be black-and-white, a première for Cosey, and it will published by Futuropolis.
Amazon France announces the album for 12 october 2017, a date that seems ‘not impossible’, according to Cosey himself.
Thanks to Dinu Logoz
Good news for our Scandinavian friends: the Mickey album will appear in danish and swedish, both titled ‘En mystisk melodi’ (the cover above is the danish one, below the swedish cover). The Danish edition will be published by Egmont publishers. I am not sure if the album is already available in bookstores.
Thanks to Thomas Geertz
Last Saturday, the last issue of swiss magazine L’Hebdo appeared. In the past, Cosey has contributed drawings to the magazine. This is his farewell drawing.
Thanks to Bernard Matthey-Doret
I like all publishers who put Cosey’s works on to market, but there are publishers I like even better. I was contacted last week by Marko Šunjić, founder of the Croatian publisher Fibra. He has been publishing several albums of Cosey since 2010, all of which I had missed in my overview of translations. A look at the Fibra website told me that the Croatian publisher had a very nice catalogue of comics, and not at all the most obvious choices, from a commercial point of view.
It appeared that Marko was a real comics fan. He works as a software developer and he is a publisher of his beloved comics after his ‘normal’ work hours.
To show you his love for nice books, take a look at the picture below, showing images from ‘U potrazi za Petrom Panom’… and for once, don’t look at the drawings, but at the texts. Marko made a special font type of Cosey’s handwriting, just to get the perfect look and feel (I remember the awful, ugly lettering of the older dutch albums). When Cosey saw it, he wanted his publishers to buy the font type for all his translated albums. It was given by Marko for free.
Let’s hope the Croatian market for comics will reward this publisher. In may, another Cosey album will be published in Croatia, ‘Orchidea’.