Another day in Angoulême. Top left: Glénat shows their pride during their press conference – note that Tebo’s Mickey album won the Prix de la Jeunesse (for best youth’s comic), also published by Glénat. Top right: the Grand Prix winner during one of his many media appearances. Bottom: apparently, Cosey’s Mickey albums are selling well at the Glénat stand.
All images taken from Twitter
Pictures of the Lombard stand in Angoulême, yesterday. Top: albums of the Grand Prix winners 2016 (Hermann) and 2017. Bottom left: quick sticker action of Lombard. Bottom right: a cartoon of Lombard’s live cartoonist Clarke – the first balloon tells the story: ‘Impossible! When did you print these albums? He has only been elected yesterday!’
All images are taken from Lombard Twitter messages
A few minutes ago, I got the news that Cosey has won the Grand Prix d’Angoulême 2017. Congratulations, Bernard!
From a quickly released interview on ‘20 minutes‘ (by Olivier Mimran), I translate some quotes from Cosey.
‘For years, friends tell me ‘this time, it will be you’. I believed it for a long time, but it didn’t happen so I stopped thinking about it. Also, I was convinced I had no chance this year , especially with top artists like Ware and Larcenet – so I wasn’t prepared for it and I continued to work in my corner.’
‘It gives confidence, because, as a comic artist, you are alone most of the time. So, you often doubt about the quality of your work. No, they tell me that I have been wrong to doubt.’
A special web page of the Festival d’Angoulême, dedicated to the Grand Prix winner: click here.
The official report of the Festival d’Angoulême, announcing the winner: download here (PDF).
Interview with Cosey on YouTube: click here.
Lombard announces volume 6 of the Jonathan Intégale, containing the labums ‘Atsuko’ and ‘Celle qui fut’. I found this cover on the internet (the website of FNAC), but it looks atypically unfinished for the Intégrales albums, so maybe this is just a preliminary design. The album will appear in june.
From 26 to 29 january, the 44th Festival International de la Bande Dessinée will take place in Angoulême. Each year, an artist is awarded the Grand Prix. Since a few years, comic artists (everyone whose work is published in french) themselves can vote for their favourite colleague. This year, the election is in two rounds, and the results of the first round have been presented: three comic makers can still ‘win’ the Grand Prix. The three are Manu Larcenet (France), Chris Ware (USA) and… Cosey (Switzerland).
The second election round will be held from 18 to 22 january, and the final results will be announced on 25 january at 18:00 o’clock, during the opening ceremony of the Festival.
Thanks to Cuno Affolter
An exposition we have missed so far is ‘Pic & Bulle’ in the ‘Musée de l’Ancien Évêché’ in Grenoble (France). It is an expostion about mountains in comics (open until 30 april 2017), with original pages from ‘À la recherche de Peter Pan’. On the website of the museum, you can find more information and some videos about the exposition and you can buy a catalogue of the expo.
Thanks to Bernard Matthey-Doret
Two new translations of the Mickey album: the german edition that will appear in may 2017 and the italian edition that apparently has been published already last november.
Parenting site ‘Daddy Mojo’ places the english/american edition of ‘A mysterious melody’ among the best ‘All age comic books’ of this month. The album release was a bit delayed, but the book is for sale this january.
If you are still looking for a special Christmas present, this maight be it: Galerie/Librairie Raspoutine publishes a ‘Portfolio de Noël’ (a Christmas Portfolio). It contains prints of 6 comic artists, among whom Cosey. The portfolio is available in 99 copies, numbered and signed of course.
More information on the website of Raspoutine: click here.
Thanks to Bernard Matthey-Doret
In Galerie Glénat in Paris, the four mouseketeers that created new Mickey albums this year have an exposition. The exposition starts 7 december and ends 8 january 2017. So if you spend Christmas holidays in paris, Galerie Glénat is the place to visit.
More information on the website of Galerie Glénat.
Swiss documentary series ‘Passe-moi les jumelles’ has made a film about photographer Jean-Pierre Grandjean. Grandjean is a long time friend of Cosey, and has made some travels with him to Asia. In the documentary, Grandjean has been followed during a trip to Laos, for a commission by the non-governmental organisation Helvetas. He photographs people at work in Helvetas projects, before continuing his personal project of discovering and photographing Buddha statues. As an intro as as an epilogue, there is a meeting with Cosey and documentary maker Romain Guélat.
I recommend the documentary for everyone interested in the work of Grandjean or interested in Laos culture: click here.
Photo © Célien Aubert / France 3 Alpes
Today, I was informed twice about videos.
The first video is an interview with Cosey with Planète BD, about the Mickey album: click here. The video was recorded in january.
A more recent video and a short article can be read on France Info: click here. Cosey talks about his new album, that will be in black and white. In the video we can see Cosey at work on page 30 of the new album. On the picture going with the article, you can view the page in more detail. It looks promising!
Thanks to Jérôme Pigney and Ralph Doumit
On the danish tv-show ‘Troldspejlet’, anchor man Jakob Stegelmann presented the Mickey album by Cosey. Strange enough, the album is not (yet) translated into danish.
Stegelmann says he hopes the album will become available in a danish edition. He also hopes more artists will get the opportunity to make their versions of Mickey Mouse. He calls the style of Cosey’s album entirely unique, old-fashioned and very modern at the same time.
The film can be viewed on Facebook: click here. If the link doesn’t work, you can look for the clip on this Facebook-page, a group page dedicated to Cosey.
Thanks to Thomas Geertz
At the Lausanne comic festival BD Fil, swiss artist Derib was the honorary guest. Derib is mostly known for his series Yakari and Buddy Longway, but he has made many more beautiful comics in the last 50 years. As most of you will know, Cosey started his career as a comics artist as an apprentcie of Derib. Our swiss correspondent found this portrait of Derib, by Cosey, on expo in Lausanne.
Thanks to Bernard Matthey-Doret
