Author: rogerklaassen

Comic bookstore Raspoutine not only celebrates its 30 years, but it has also moved to another location. And when you move house and empty the attic, old things turn up.

So, this announcement of a signing session of Derib & Job and Cosey was found – dating from 1974. That is even more than 30 years old!

Thanks to Bernard Matthey-Doret

Cosey-fans must be familiar with the name Raspoutine, I think. The comics bookstore in Lausanne, run by the enthusiastic and energetic Lorenzo Pioletti, celebrates its 30th birthday this year. In those 30 years, Raspoutine has published many ex-librises and a few special editions of Cosey’s albums.

To celebrate its 30 years, Raspoutine publishes a ‘catalogue’ of ex-librises. Well, a it is not a real catalogue in a sense that it is a complete overview of all ex-librises it has published over the years. I liked this picture by Cosey.

The catalogue goes – for some editions – with ex-librises. One of them is made by Cosey. Please check the website of Raspoutine to see how you can order it!

Happy birthday, Raspoutine!

Thanks to Bernard Matthey-Doret

Salleck Publications has recently published a german edition of Calypso.

More information: click here.

Thanks to Dinu Logoz

An original idea of the City of Lausanne: the city offers a book titled ‘Lausanne Imaginée’ to its young citizens who celebrate thier 18th birthday. In the album (approximately 100 pages), 24 artists tell their stories about Lausanne.

Cosey drew the beautiful cover for the album. The book contains stories by interesting artists like Peggy Adam, Anna Sommer, Tom Tirabosco, Pierre Wazem, edmond Baudoin and many others.

The album was presented during a ‘vernissage’ in Lausanne on 17 april 2019. On the picture you see Cosey with Mr. Grégoire Junod, Major of the City of Lausanne.

Thanks to Bernard Matthey-Doret and Cuno Affolter

In Charmey, you can visit an interesting exposition until 5 may. The exposition is a project by swiss artist David Brülhart. Brülhart is a graphic artist, part of his work is ‘narrative art’, among which a graphic novel ‘La Vie Sauvage’ (in cooperation with Tony O’Neill).

In 2016, he embarked on the ship ‘Knut’, to visit Spitsbergen, the famous island of the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Sea. With his sketches and notes from this expedition, he started the project ‘Névé’, with glaciers as his inspiration. The result is an exposition in Musée Charmey – an exposition of Brülharts work, of course, but also with works of several other artists – among whom we find Cosey.

The exposition is spread over several locations in Charmey.

In the Musée Charmey, you can works of Brülhart, Laure Gonthier, Lorna Bornand, Benoît Billotte, while you listen to a sound installation by Steve Fragnière. And… you will find sketchbooks and original pages made by Cosey.

In another location, the Galerie de l’Hôtel Cailler, you can see images of the salt chair of Brülhart (see the poster above), together with reproductions on a large format of drawings by Cosey.

From the expositions flyer, I clipped the images of various works. It looks like a very interesting exposition.

More information: click here.

A happy new year to all fans of Cosey!

In 2019, we may expect a new album by Cosey. If all goes well, his new Minnie Mouse album will be in your bookstore in october.

This first post of 2019 is a kind of a milestone for me and ‘The World of Cosey’, as this is is the 250th ‘NEWS’-message of the site. I thank you all for visiting my site and for contributing to it by sending me news about Cosey. I hope you will continue to do so!

The history of Danish translations of the Jonathan albums is a bit confusing to a non-danish expert like me. From 1978 till 1980, the first five Jonathan albums were published in Denmark by Williams Forlag, with a cover design quite distinct from the well-known white and blue frames of the original editions. Then, Interpresse took over and published Jonathan albums 7 till 11 between 1983 and 1987. The first two of their albums followed the cover design of Williams, the other four had the original design (however, for number 8 they took over the different cover drawing from the german edition). The last danish Jonathan was number 12, published in 1997 by Carlsen Comics. I don’t know if these editions are still available – probably you have to look for them on the secondhand market.

Now for the good news for our danish friends: Forlaget Fabel will publish the latest Jonathan albums, starting with number 13 ‘Smagen af Songrong’ at the beginning of 2019. We wish them luck and hope sales figures will encourage them to publish all remaining Jonathans, and – why not? – republish the earlier Jonathans as well.

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Thanks to Thomas Geertz

Cosey has been awarded the Grand Prix 2018 of the ‘Fondation Vaudoise pour la Culture’. This foundation was created in 1987 to honor people from the cultural world in the swiss canton of the Vaud, who enrich the country with strong and innovative art. The prize brings an amount of 100.000 swiss francs (around 90.000 euros), meant to give winners the opportunity to work for a period without financial worries.

You can read the eulogy on the website of the Fondation: click here. It is a little too poetic for my translation skills… On the same page, you can also read a short biography and an overview of ‘distinctions’, or major prizes and award Cosey has received over the years (I would add at least the Prix Diagonal to it).

The beautiful photo going with the article on Fondation’s site , was made by Amélie Blanc et Noura Gauper.

 

Cosey is currently working on a new project: a story about Minnie Mouse. If all goes well, the album will be published by Glénat in the autumn of 2019.

In interviews after the publication of ‘Une mystérieuse mélodie’ and ‘Calypso’, Cosey has often mentioned he had a second scenario for a Mickey story. At the time, it was still unsure if authors were allowed to make a second story in Glénat’s Mickey-albums. Apparently, Cosey has got a ‘go’ for the project.

A spanish edition of Calypso has been published by Dolmen Editorial. As far as I know, this must be the third translation (after dutch and portuguese).

Recently, a portuguese translation of ‘Calypso’ has been published by Levoir – portuguese title is ‘Calipso’.

I like the advertisement of Levoir below: the way the mermaids swim into the dress.

A drawing of ‘shaka’, the Hawaiian greeting gesture that is popular among surfers. Cosey made it a few weeks ago for the R4tC (Ride for the Cause), a paddling sports event in Montreux – this year from 30 august till 2 september. The event is a fund rasing event for ‘WAVES for development’ and ‘Summit Foundation’.

This year, the famous Aire Libre collection of Dupuis celebrates its 30th anniversary. In a series of ‘Cahiers’ (I don’t know how many Cahiers will be published), Dupuis looks back on this 30 years. In this first issue, interviews with artists around the central question ‘Why do you make comics?’

The Cahier has 88 pages with a soft cover. On the cover, a drawing by Cosey referring to his ‘Le Voyage en Italie’, the first album of the Aire Libre collection in 1988. This drawing was originally made for the 20th anniversary of Aire Libre. The interview with Cosey is based on a round table discussion during the Festival de la BD in Angoulême in january this year.

More information on the site of Dupuis.

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Thanks to Philippe Regottaz

The swiss Château de Sint Maurice hosts an exposition (until 11 november 2018) about Petzi, a famous childrens book character. The first Petzi stories were created in 1951 by danish authors Carla Hansen and Vilhelm Hansen. Since 2016, a swiss publisher is publishing the stories again in their original form for the french speaking market.

Some 25 swiss artists, among them Cosey, made a hommage to the little bear.

More information on the website of the Château: click here.

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Thanks to Bernard Matthey-Doret