Ego comme x was the name of a French
comics publishing house
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created in
Angoulême
Angoulême (; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Engoulaeme''; oc, Engoleime) is a commune, the prefecture of the Charente department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France.
The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Angoumoisins'' o ...
in 1994.
Company history
''Ego comme x'' started by publishing a magazine in 1993 created by a few authors and after a few years started to publish other works.
Creators :
Xavier Mussat,
Loïc Néhou (director),
Fabrice Neaud.
Authors:
Comics : Nine Antico, Aristophane, Matthieu Blanchin, Hugh Somerville,
Frédéric Boilet,
Jeffrey Brown,
Pierre Druilhe,
Gabriel Dumoulin,
Kazuichi Hanawa
is a Japanese manga artist.
Life
Hanawa was born in Yorii, Saitama Prefecture. Since 1970 he worked as an illustrator. After reading the works of Yoshiharu Tsuge, he decided to switch to comic books. Hanawa's first work as a cartoonist was in ...
,
Simon Hureau
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Grégory Jarry,
Olivier Josso,
James Kochalka
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Pauline Martin
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She was born in Trois-Pistoles, Quebec, with her family moving to Chicoutimi in 1956. In 1976, ...
,
Pierre Maurel,
Lucas Méthé,
Xavier Mussat,
Freddy Nadolny Poustochkine,
Fabrice Neaud,
Loïc Néhou,
Benoît Peeters
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After a degree in Philosophy at Université de Paris I, Peeters prepared his Master's at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociale ...
,
Joe G. Pinelli,
Frédéric Poincelet,
John Porcellino
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Vincent Sardon
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,
Mickaël Sterckeman,
Karl Stevens,
Jean Teulé
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Yoshiharu Tsuge
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,
Vincent Vanoli.
Literature :
Virginie Cady,
Vincent Ravalec,
Fabienne Swiatly,
Lionel Tran,
Amoreena Winkler.
''Ego comme x'' became famous thanks to the publication of ''JOURNAL'' by Fabrice Neaud, which had an important part in the French artistic comics movement of the 1990s. They now have more than 60 books in their catalogue. They are mostly interested in introspection and autobiographies.
They published English-speaking authors for a few years, like Jeffrey Brown, James Kochalka, Karl Stevens and John Porcellino. They also published "the man without quality", the famous book from Japanese author Yoshiharu Tsuge, only available in Japanese and in French.
In 2006, ''Ego comme x'' started to publish literature.
In 2011, they started a collection of books printed on demand.
In 2016, unable to secure financing for further operation, ''Ego comme x'' closed down.
References
Comic book publishing companies of France
French companies established in 1994
Mass media in Angoulême
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