From 17 to 19 April, the Festival du Livre was held in the Grand Palais in Paris. Cosey was there to meet readers. A special Ex Libris was published for the occasion.

Thanks to Pierre

Galerie Daniel Maghen has made a podcast series about comics – La BD: Tout un art. In these series you can now listen to three episodes (episodes 14,15 and 16 of the series) about and with Cosey, titled ‘À la recherche de Cosey’.

Interviewer Jacques Monin talks with Cosey about his 50 years long carreer.

• Episode 1 (14): start of Cosey’s carreer. His love for comics and telling stories. Jonathan.
• Epsiode 2 (15): Travels and inspiration. Ã la rechercge de Peter Pan.
• Episode 3 (16): the one shot albums. Le Voyage en Italie, Le Bouddha d’Azur, Mickey.

Find the podcasts here (or look in your favourite podcast platform):

• Youtube
• Spotify
• Apple Podcasts

January 10th, France Inter broadcasted an episode of the podcast Aux livres etc. with a interview with Cosey and Cyril Pedrosa. The occasion of the interview was the publication of Yiyun by Cosey and a project of a graphic novel set in Asia by Cyril Pedrosa.

The interview went into the ways of working and creating a story. For Cosey fans, nothing new to be heard on this – Cosey is very consistent in his answers since the 1980s!

In another recent interview, Cosey suggested he had plans for a comic without words. In the interview on France Inter he talks about something quite opposite: a story without images. He doesn’t want to call it a novel, but still. He says it is almost finished (‘quasi fini’). Interesting.

I can recommend everybody to read the albums of Cyril Pedrosa. In the interview, he talks about a very original project he is working on. In 1543, a Portuguese sailor discovers Japan. At the same time, Japanese people discover the Portuguese sailor. Cyril Pedrosa and Taiyô Matsumoto will both make an album around this discovery: Pedrosa will tell it from the Portuguese viewpoint, Matsumoto for the Japanese viewpoint. One story – two albums Nanbanjin. Interesting!

Dupuis will publish two ‘Cahiers’ as an ‘amuse’ before the albums will be released later this year.

At this moment, you get this print (size A4) when you buy two albums published by Le Lombard at BD Fugue. The action is not very clearly indicated on their website, but you can see it when you order the albums. I don’t know when this promotion action will stop.

Thanks to François Lionnet

It is nice to have some correspondents – one of them, Cuno Affolter, took the time to take photos at La Griffe Ausoni at Lausanne. According to Cuno, this fashion shop displays large size drawing of Cosey every year in the Christmas period.

Some of the drawings can be found in Echo (pages 162 and onwards), but here you can see them ‘in action’.

Thanks to Cuno Affolter

SWOF/Raspoutine publish this sériegraphie in a series of 99 copies. Size: A4.

I think it is one of the most beautiful images of Yiyun – certainly for making a special print.

You can purchase the print at the website of SWOF Planète BD.

Thanks to Bernard Matthey Doret

With the help of members of the Bernard Cosey Facebook page, all cartoon characters and objects of this image from Yiyun (page 53) have been identified.

Most of the items are well-known among comics fans, but some have been harder to identify.

For instance, Globi. It is a cartoon bird, originally a mascotte of the Swiss Globus Warehouses. The blue parrot has been created by Robert Lips in 1932. In 1948 already, there were one million copies of Globi books sold. In 2026, the 100th book of Globi will appear. In 2003 a Globi movie was released and in 2008 a Globi play garden was opened in Engelberg. But probably, if you are not Swiss, you won’t know the bird.

Le Flagada will also be one of the more unknown characters. It seems to be a bird too – an egg shaped one with what looks like a propeller. It was created by Charles Degotte in 1961. The first album was published twenty years later. In 2008, the series was shortly revived by Zidrou and Bercovici.

Thanks to Dinu Logoz & members of the Bernard Cosey Facebook group.

Good news for Dutch and Flemish fans of Cosey: the Jonathan Intégrales will be published in Dutch.

Starting in February 2026 with ‘Integraal 1’, containing the first three Jonathan albums, Saga Uitgaven will publish all albums the next few years. ‘Integraal 2’ will be published in June 2026.

Applause to this initiative!

Link to Saga Uitgaven.

From 29 October till 22 November, Galerie Daniel Maghen (Paris) invites us to the exposition ‘Cosey, éternel voyageur’.

In the exposition, you will find many original pages from (among others) Jonathan, À la recherche de Peter Pan, Le Bouddha d’Azur and of course Yiyun.

I love it that originals are displayed (and sold) with the gouache colourings, like the ones you see below.

More info about opening hours and prices: Galerie Daniel Maghen

Merci à Olivier Bézy

Having read so many interviews with Cosey over the past 40 years, it is hard to discover something I didn’t know about him. But now, we have this magazine ‘Saveurs’ (‘Tastes’) of Swiss supermarket Migros with plenty of new information.

First: Cosey as a cook. The dish he makes for visiting friends is a risotto with celery and Taleggio cheese. He also likes risotto with mushrooms.

Cosey starts the day with a yoghurt with fresh fruits and a big mug of coffee.

From the interview, I don’t get the impression Cosey is a Michelin starred chef – of course he might surprise me.

If you want to make an impression on Cosey, I have some food suggestions:

• the greek Mosaiko-dessert. This is an unbaked pie made of cookie crumbs and a mixture of chocolate. It brings him back to a delicacy of his youth.
• if you don’t want to spend time trying out Greek recipes, you can just buy Breton cookies: shortbread cookies made with salted butter.

Finally, if you wonder what makes Cosey keep his youthful appearance: his secret is a hydrating body milk (from Migros, of course). The one with the red cap.

Thanks to Bernard Matthey Doret

Here are the links to some articles that have appeared in newspapers and magazines. Some of the articles are behind a ‘pay wall’:

• 24 Heures: Cosey revient avec une aventure à suspense entre les Alpes et la Chine
  Link to 24 Heures
• La Liberté: Cosey reprend sa route avec Yiyun, un nouvel album qui voit du pays
  Link to La Liberté
• Le Matin: Cosey s’éclate en jouant aux ombres chinoises
  Link to Le Matin
• France 24: Cosey revient avec un album entre Alpes et Asie
  Link to France24
• Le Temps: Cosey: «J’aime les silhouettes qui vont à l’essentiel»
  Link to Le Temps
• Ligne Claire: Yiyun, Cosey et une histoire de papier
  Link to Ligne Claire
• RTBF: Yiyun, Cosey nous emmène de la Suisse à la Chine
  Link to RTBF
• Actualitté (interview with Cosey): Cosey : “Je préfère une histoire d’amour à un complot intergalactique”
  Link to Actualitté
• Actualitté (interview with Clément Doucet): “Avec Cosey, on prend le temps : c’est la plus belle des libertés”
  Link to Actualitté
• Actua BD: Cosey : connecté avec le cosmos
  Link to Actua BD
• TIP!! Bubble BD: « L’idée est de donner au lecteur l’impression qu’il est dans un monde réel » Interview de Cosey à l’occasion de la sortie de Yiyun
  Link to BubbleBD
• Le Soir: Cosey : « Ce qu’on connaît de nous-même n’est pas nous-même »
  Link to Le Soir
• Le Nouvelliste: «Yiyun» de Cosey, une histoire d’amour entre montagnes et Taïwan.
  Link to Le Nouvelliste

On TV & radio

• RTS: Avec “Yiyun”, le dessinateur vaudois Cosey marie BD, art du découpage et histoire d’amour
  Link to RTS
• Radio Lac: Cosey embarque le lecteur des Alpes suisses jusqu’en Chine
  Link to Radio Lac

Les Cahiers de la BD

After the prepublication of some Yiyun pages in no. 31, Les Cahiers de la BD have a substantial article about Cosey in no. 32. Richly illustrated!

Link to Les Cahier de la BD

Thanks to Olivier Bézy & Jean-Christophe Defline & Barbara Issaly & Claude Stern

Some events around the launch of Yiyun.

Fully Booked… 8 October
Meeting with Cosey
Librairie Bulles en Têtes – Le Peletier, Paris

See website of the shop.

9 October – 16.30-18.30
Libraririe Flagey (Brussels)
Cosey – Rencontre avec le public (Meeting with the pucblic)
Signing session without drawings (probably, Cosey will use stamps)

See website of the shop.

Ex Libris ‘Yiyun’ – offered in the shops of BD Fugue.

See website of BD Fugue.

23 October – 15 November
Galerie Daniel Maghen, Paris
Expo Yiyun

See website of the gallery.

Thanks to Olivier Bézy