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Angoulême 2010: Photos

Posted by Matthias Wivel on February 4th, 2010 at 10:17 AM

Check in for the official Comics Journal/Metabunker photo reportage from this year’s Angoulême festival. Oh, and peep the Ruppert/Mulot Cent pour Cent show.

Angoulême 2010: Aftermath

Posted by Matthias Wivel on February 1st, 2010 at 1:21 PM

Right. Sunday at the Angoulême festival is always a bit of a wash when one lives abroad and hasn’t booked another night in France, but now it’s Monday and here are some thoughts on the festival as a…

Take Two — An Interview with Ruppert/Mulot

Posted by Matthias Wivel on February 1st, 2010 at 12:01 AM

The cartooning duo Florent Ruppert and Jérôme Mulot are amongst the most remarkable emerging talents on the Francophone comics scene. A two-headed cartoon beast, theirs is an organic collaboration, melding writing and drawing. Their comics are possessed of…

Angoulême 2010: Saturday

Posted by Matthias Wivel on January 30th, 2010 at 10:15 AM

Reporting live from the Angoulême festival: Saturday is here and its been a busy day. Crowded as usual, negotiating the often tight exhibition spaces and lecture theaters can be trying, but is certainly worth it. We started the day at the new comics center, which I must say is amazing. Under new directorship and with a spacious new scenically situated in a row of refurbished and expanded row of factory buildings across the river, this is a major upgrade that the long ailing institution sorely needed.

Angoulême 2010: Friday

Posted by Matthias Wivel on January 29th, 2010 at 12:05 PM


Reporting live from the Angoulême festival: The rain didn’t keep people away.  Friday has been fairly busy, with the exhibition areas and tents filled as usual with a broad, heterogenus audience. I spent the day taking in various…

TCJ 300: Continental Drift

Posted by Matthias Wivel on December 29th, 2009 at 4:54 AM

The Constant Garage


From The Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius Chapter One: A Dangerous Overhaul in Heavy Metal Vol. 1 #7; ©1976 Métal Hurlant.


Spanning more or less exactly the life of the Journal, Moebius’ greatest invention, the Hermetic Garage, has been a constant in his creative life. A set of concepts to which he has returned intermittently through his career and which has found new life in his most recent book — an exhilarating return to form.

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