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Cinebooks
Cinebook Ltd is a British publishing company that publishes comic albums and graphic novels. It describes itself as "the 9th art publisher," the 9th art being comics in continental Europe, especially France, Belgium and Italy. They typically translate Franco-Belgian comics – predominantly originating from the Franco-Belgian comic publishers Dargaud, Dupuis and Le Lombard – into English and have also issued an original series about the French Queen Marguerite de Valois, also known as Queen Margot. Cinebook works with a team of translators, including native speakers of French, British English and American English. Titles Softcover album series So far, the company has published, or plans to publish, the following comic series in softcover editions: Hardcover series * ''Valerian: The Complete Collection'' During 2017 and 2018 the British publisher Cinebook Limited published a hardcover collection of the series titled; ''Valerian: The Complete Collection'', spread ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canterbury, Kent
Canterbury (, ) is a cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, situated in the heart of the City of Canterbury local government district of Kent, England. It lies on the River Stour. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the primate of the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion owing to the importance of St Augustine, who served as the apostle to the pagan Kingdom of Kent around the turn of the 7th century. The city's cathedral became a major focus of pilgrimage following the 1170 martyrdom of Thomas Becket, although it had already been a well-trodden pilgrim destination since the murder of St Alphege by the men of King Canute in 1012. A journey of pilgrims to Becket's shrine served as the frame for Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century classic '' The Canterbury Tales''. Canterbury is a popular tourist destination: consistently one of the most-visited cities in the United Kingdom, the city's economy is heavily reliant upon tourism. The city has been occupied si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldebaran (comics)
The ''Worlds of Aldebaran'' (french: Les Mondes d'Aldébaran) is a French science-fiction comic series written and illustrated by Léo and published by Dargaud in French and Cinebook in English. The ''Aldebaran'' saga is divided into 5 cycles: ''Aldebaran'' and its sequels ''Betelgeuse'', ''Antares'', ''Survivors'', ''Return to Aldebaran'' and ''Neptune''. Each cycle is composed of three to six albums, and each corresponds to a different planet. Although it is possible to read the cycles separately, they are chronological to form a coherent whole. Each cycle (and thus planet) introduces new secondary characters, although the central heroes of the story remain constant. 2011 saw the release of a new volume, ''Survivors'' (french: Survivants), which introduced a new set of characters and takes place concurrently with ''Antares''. The next cycle, ''Return to Aldebaran'' (french: Retour sur Aldebaran) consists of 3 albums, published between 2018 and 2020. It is followed in 2022 with '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raoul Cauvin
Raoul Cauvin (26 September 1938 – 19 August 2021) was a Belgian comics author and one of the most popular in the humorist field. Biography Raoul Cauvin was born in Antoing, Belgium in 1938.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Raoul Cauvin". In België gestript, pp. 176–177. Tielt: Lannoo. He studied lithography at the Institut Saint-Luc in Tournai, but upon leaving school found that there were no jobs available for lithographers.Interview on fan site Last accessed 29 September 2006 He started working at Dupuis in 1960 as a cameraman for the small animation studio the publishing house had started, working on early [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Tuniques Bleues
''Les Tuniques Bleues'' (Dutch: De Blauwbloezen) is a Belgian series of ''bandes dessinées'' (comic books in the Franco-Belgian tradition), first published in '' Spirou'' magazine and later collected in albums by Dupuis."Best of Belgium's Cartoons", Ooi Kok Chuen. ''New Straits Times'', November 27, 1995. Created by artist Louis Salvérius and writer Raoul Cauvin, the series was taken up by artist Lambil after Salverius' death. It follows two United States cavalrymen through a series of battles and adventures. The first album of the series was published in 1970. The series' name, ''Les Tuniques Bleues'', literally "the bluecoats", refers to the Northern (union) army during the American Civil War. Cinebook has started to print the comics in English as "''The Bluecoats''" releasing ''Robertsonville Prison'' in 2008. It is one of the best-selling series in French-language comics. History Cauvin has written the stories for the first 64 volumes. Six of the first ten volumes were i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar P
Edgar is a commonly used English given name, from an Anglo-Saxon name ''Eadgar'' (composed of '' ead'' "rich, prosperous" and '' gar'' "spear"). Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the later medieval period; it was, however, revived in the 18th century, and was popularised by its use for a character in Sir Walter Scott's ''The Bride of Lammermoor'' (1819). People with the given name * Edgar the Peaceful (942–975), king of England * Edgar the Ætheling (c. 1051 – c. 1126), last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house of England * Edgar of Scotland (1074–1107), king of Scotland * Edgar Angara, Filipino lawyer * Edgar Barrier, American actor * Edgar Baumann, Paraguayan javelin thrower * Edgar Bergen, American actor, radio performer, ventriloquist * Edgar Berlanga, American boxer * Edgar H. Brown, American mathematician * Edgar Buchanan, American actor * Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author, creator of ''Tarzan'' * Edgar Cantero, Spanish author in Catalan, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blake And Mortimer
''Blake and Mortimer'' is a Belgian comics series created by the writer and comics artist Edgar P. Jacobs. It was one of the first series to appear in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine '' Tintin'' in 1946, and was subsequently published in book form by Le Lombard. The main protagonists of the adventures are Philip Mortimer, a leading British scientist, and his friend Captain Francis Blake of MI5. The main antagonist is their sworn enemy, Colonel Olrik, who has appeared in almost every book. Their confrontations take them into the realms of detective investigation and science-fiction, dealing with such themes as time travel, Atlantis and espionage. Since the death of Jacobs, new books have been published by two separate teams of artists and writers. A television series based upon the series was produced in 1997, entitled '' Blake and Mortimer''. The books by Jacobs himself are generally set in the very period of their writing, but those authored by others after his death are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Roba
Jean Roba (28 July 1930 – 14 June 2006) was a Belgian comics author from the Marcinelle school. His best-known work is '' Boule et Bill''. Biography Jean Roba was born in Schaerbeek, Belgium.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Roba". In België gestript, pp. 151–152. Tielt: Lannoo. In his youth, he was a reader of French magazines like ''Robinson'' and ''Mickey'', which featured mainly American comics. One of those that was especially influential on Roba was ''Katzenjammer Kids''. After working as an illustrator for different magazines and publicity agencies, he started to work as an illustrator for '' Spirou'' magazine in 1957, where he made small cartoons for the front page for a few years. He also worked on ''Bonnes Soirées'', another magazine from the same publisher Dupuis, where he continued the series ''Sa majesté mon mari'' after Albert Uderzo stopped. For ''Spirou'', he made a few short stories with Yvan Delporte and collaborated on different stories of ''Spirou et Fantasio'' w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boule Et Bill
''Boule et Bill'' (known in English as ''Billy & Buddy'') is a popular comic, created in 1959 by Belgian writer-artist Jean Roba in collaboration with Maurice Rosy. In 2003, the artistic responsibility of the series was passed on to Roba's former assistant Laurent Verron. The stories center on a typical family: a man and his wife, their young son Boule and Bill the cocker spaniel. History ''Boule et Bill'' first appeared in the Belgian comics magazine '' Spirou'' on December 24, 1959. The ambition was to make a sort of European Peanuts. The debut was made in a so-called '' mini-récit'' (mini-story), a story in 32 very small pages, printed on the inner spread of the magazine. Roba had until then mainly made illustrations for the magazine and had helped some other authors (including André Franquin), and now started with his own series. A few months later, a four-page comic with the same heroes appeared, and shortly thereafter Roba created a weekly one page comic. For the next twenty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delaf
Delaf (the pen name of Marc Delafontaine, born October 9, 1973, in Sherbrooke, Quebec), is a '' Québécois'' comics creator and illustrator, notable for his work in ''The Bellybuttons'' (''Les Nombrils''), a comics feature that he co-created with his wife, Maryse Dubuc. Biography Delaf began his career as an illustrator of a series of brochures advertising for a school that specialised in the education of French as a second language. He would soon expand his career, working in animation, illustrating children's books, and drawing and writing comics. In 2004, Delaf and Dubuc would co-create ''Les Nombrils'', a comic strip that focuses on the social life of three teenage girls, for the Québécois humour magazine, ''Safarir''. The following year, '' Spirou'', a Franco-Belgian comics magazine, would pick up the strip, which they carried ever since. Bibliography Comics series * ''The Bellybuttons ''The Bellybuttons'' (french: Les Nombrils, ) is a Canadian comics series written b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryse Dubuc
Maryse Dubuc (; born 21 October 1977) is a Canadian comics writer, known particularly for ''The Bellybuttons'' which she created with Marc Delafontaine ("Delaf"). Early life Maryse Dubuc was born in Compton, Quebec,La Presse: "Les Nombrils du Monde", November 9, 2013. growing up at a dairy farm. She studied French literature at the Cégep de Sherbrooke, and communication at the |
The Bellybuttons
''The Bellybuttons'' (french: Les Nombrils, ) is a Canadian comics series written by Maryse Dubuc (credited as "Dubuc") and illustrated by her husband, Marc "Delaf" Delafontaine. Dubuc and Delafontaine are based in Sherbrooke, Quebec. History As ''Les Nombrils'', the series was introduced in 2004 in issue #188 of the Québécois humour magazine '' Safarir''; it was later picked up in 2005 by the Franco-Belgian comics magazine, '' Spirou''. Spirou's publisher, Dupuis, published its first BD album, ''Pour qui tu te prends ?'', in 2006. An English version of the series, with its title directly translated to ''The Bellybuttons'', was introduced in 2009 by British publisher Cinebook. By 2009, ''Les Nombrils'' has become one of the best-selling BD album titles on the market, with its third volume, ''Les liens de l'amitié'', having sold over 220,000 copies. The series was on hiatus from late 2009 until February 2011, when ''Les Nombrils'' returned to ''Spirou'' in issue 3802. For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Youri Jigounov
Youri Jigounov (russian: Юрий Жигунов), is a Russian comic writer and artist. . Works *Attached to a non-album series: **Yuri Jigounov only: ***Letters of Krivtsov, The Lombard Collection "One Shot", Brussels, February 1995, 48 p., () or (). *Series " Alpha" **Yuri Jigounov (drawings) and Pascal Renard (scenario): **# 1996: The Exchange, The Lombard al. "Third Wave", Brussels, 1997, 48 p., () (reissue March 1999). **# January 1997: Clan Bogdanov, The Lombard al. "Third Wave", Brussels, 1997, 48 p., () (reissue March 2001). **Yuri Jigounov (drawings) and Mythic (scenario): **# January 1998: The Wages of wolves, The Lombard al. "Third Wave", Brussels, 1998, 48 p., () (reissue March 2001). **# March 1999: The List, The Lombard al. "Third Wave", Brussels, 1999, 48 p., () (reissue December 2000). **# October 2000: Sanctions, Le Lombard, et al. "Third Wave", Brussels, October 2000,Lfiche consacrée à l'album ''Sanctions'' dans le catalogue BN-Opale Plus, indique, à titre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
