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.
Thanks to Ana Castilho