Author: rogerklaassen

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.

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Thanks to Bernard Matthey-Doret

In my previous message I wrote about the album ‘La grande aventure du Journal Tintin’. Next to eight pages from ‘L’espace blue entre les nuages’ you can find this image, taken from ‘À la recherche de Peter Pan. With a curious text: ‘Great! This is the famous stock of captain Haddock’ (my translation). In the original album, Melvin Woodworth finds ‘Rye bread, dried meat, chocolate, Fendant… what’s this? Pear brandy!!!’.

I suspect someone at Lombard wants to be funny…

 

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Thanks to Bernard Matthey-Doret

This year, Le Lombard celebrates its 70th birthday. It all started with the edition of the Journal Tintin (and Kuifje Weekblad) – the first issue appeared on 26 september 1946. From 1975, Journal Tintin published the Jonathan comics, and later on ‘À la recherche de Peter Pan’.  Ans as you know, Le Lombard is the publisher of many albums by Cosey.

To celebrate its 70 years, Le Lombard publishes ‘La Grande Aventure du Journal Tintin’, in cooperation with Moulinsart. It is a massive album of 777 pages, covering the history of the Journal Tintin from 1946 until 1988 (the year the Journal Tintin ceased to exist). Cosey is present in the album with 8 pages taken from ‘L’espace bleu entre les nuages’.

A clipping from the catalogue of IDW, publisher of the american edition of Cosey’s Mickey album.

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Thanks to Cuno Affolter

This is the cover for the american edition of ‘Une Mystérieuse mélodie’. The album will be released in December 2016 and is published by IDW Publishing.

Catalogue price is $14.99 – ISBN: 978-1-63140-777-2.

‘Le Siffleur de Bulles‘ is a new site dedicated to comics. On the site, they have started the first episode of a series about stories by Cosey. The first one is about ‘Sur’l’île’, one of the short stories of the album ‘Une maison de Frank L. Wright’. We look forward to the next articles! (By the way, you can also find an article about the Mickey album on the site).

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Thanks to Ralph Doumit

The result of a day’s work in Vevey, during Pictobello 2016. The drawing can be seen on the Place Robin in Vevey (Switzerland) until 16 july 2016.

More results can be seen on the website of Pictobello.

Last Saturday, Cosey participated at Pictobello 2016 in Vevey (Switzerland). It is a festival where artists paint and draw on billboards, that are hung at several spots throughout the city, where they can be seen until 16 July. The pictures above were made during the works on Saturday. Work on the billboard was interrupted for collegial advice and for signing books for fans.

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Photos taken from Pictobello Facebookpage – © Samuel Rouge

Here, you can find an interview with Cosey for the Magazine of Coop. At the end of the interview, we learn two interesting things: Cosey is at work on an album that will be published in 2017 and this album will be in black and white.

A photo taken from the train shows that Cosey’s 1991 wall painting in Morges has been demolished by graffitti hooligans. Let’s hope it can be restored.

Below a picture of the mural in better times.

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Thanks to Bernard Matthey-Doret

Two spreads from Público, about the Jonathan collection. The full size images with readble texts can be found on this site.

And this is an advertisment for the collection:

Good news for Portuguese fans of Cosey: a selection of 10 Jonathan albums will become available in Portuguese. The newspaper Público and publisher ASA cooperate: for 10 weeks, every wednesday, readers of the newspaper can buy an edition of a Jonathan album for an extra € 5.50. The action starts 27 april and ends 29 june.

The ten albums in the series can be seen on the image above. I like the cover design with the full image, following more or less the design of the Intégrale albums.

Six Jonathan albums will not be translated, three of which have earlier been available in Portuguese: ‘La Privilège du Serpent’ seems to have been published in a Tintin collection (or journal) in 1981, ‘La saveur du Songrong’ and ‘Elle ou dix-mille lucioles’ were published in one album in 2009. So three albums remain unavailable in a Portuguese translation – let’s hope for a good result of this sales action to stimulate the publisher to fill the gaps.

Last year, ‘À la recherche de Peter Pan’ was published in Portuguese. This Jonathan action so soon afterwards shows that there is an audience for Cosey’s work in Portugal.

More information on these websites: Agragem and Bandas Desenhadas.

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Thanks to Ana Castilho

Two other ex librises. One published by Glénat (the one with the car), one for clients of the Decitre bookstores.

Online comic shop BD Net is working on a collection called ‘Carte Blanche’: 53 playing cards will be made, each accompanying an album. It is a subscription scheme: you sign up for 53 albums and receive the playing cards with them.  This is Cosey’s contribution to the collection ( a ‘V’ is a ‘J’ in an english card game).

Click here to read more about it.

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Thanks to Cosey