This is an ex libris made for the Lausanne comic bookstore Raspoutine, showing Minnie.

Click here to go to the website of Raspoutine.

Thanks to Cosey

The last months I have been working on a complete make-over of ‘The World of Cosey’ – version 3.0, you could say.

The most important improvements:

• you can now browse the site on computer screens, tablets and your phone
• the site has a search function, you can find it on the news and ‘other works’ pages
• every single news post has its own URL, so you can easily share a message on social media or in e-mails
• for me personally, it is easier to maintain the site

For this new version, I have changed many of the images – larger and better quality. Enjoy!

The World of Cosey 1.0 (2002)

The World of Cosey 2.0 (2008)

Cosey signing Minnie prints at Raspoutine, Lausanne.

My Mickey article is now online: click here!

While I’m waiting for the album to write an article for the books-section of the site, I have collected some publicity material from Glénat.

On the web there have appeared already a few articles about the new Mickey albums. There is a lot of overlap, so I will link you to some of the most interesting I found yet:

• On the Glénat site, you can read an interview with Cosey.
• On ’20 minutes’, an article about the Mickey authorisation to create new adventures by Glénat.
• On ‘FranceTV‘ an article like many others, but with some video: an interview with Jacques Glénat.

In number 101 of the magazine dBD you can read a dossier dedicated to the new Mickey albums published by Glénat. With an interview with Cosey.

In the magazine is also an interview with publisher Jacques Glénat. He tells that he is negotiating with two american publishers, and that he met many of the other Disney publishers during the Frankfurt Book Fair.

A new image of the Mickey cover, complete with back cover and spine. Cosey writes me ‘he is so nervous about this album as if it was his very first album’.

Thanks to Cosey

In Glénat’s publicity magazine you can find more images of the new Mickey album by Cosey. To avoid spoilers, I only show you this image, more details can be seen in the magazine itself (click here to read Glénat 2016#2).

Thanks to Ralph Doumit

A poster made by Cosey – family business, apparently.

Thanks to Cosey

Finally, we have an image of the cover of the new Mickey album.

These are the endpages of the Mickey album by Cosey. It is now officially announced for 2 march 2016. The title: ‘Une mystérieuse mélodie – comment Mickey rencontra Minnie’.

French comic artist Lewis Trondheim makes a diary like comic series titled ‘Les Petits Riens’. This year, volume 7 ‘Un arbre en furie’ was published (Delcourt). In the album we find a meeting of Trondheim with Cosey.

Thanks to Cuno Affolter

A drawing made for Draw4Children (Brussels, 7 november 2015), organised by Dance4Children.

When I heard the news that Cosey will be making a Mickey Mouse album, I was flabbergasted. First, I did not know that Glénat had an agreement with Disney-Hachette that allowed him to publish Mickey albums made by independent artists, like Cosey. Second, although I did know that Cosey admires the works of Disney, aksing him to make a Mickey album didn’t seem evident, because the character of Cosey’s work is so different from Disney’s.

So, I had a few questions – and Cosey was willing to answer most of them. You can read the interview here.

The first page of the Mickey album by Cosey – on display in BD FIL.