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Dungeon (comics)
''Dungeon'' (French title: ''Donjon'') is a series of fantasy comic books created by Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim, with contributions from numerous other artists. It is originally published in France since 1998 by Delcourt as a series of graphic albums; English editions of a large amount of stories have been released by NBM Publishing between 2002 and 2023 in translations by Joe Johnson, first in a black-and-white periodical version and then as several color graphic novels. The series is a parody of sword and sorcery conventions in general, and specifically of the role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons''. All of the characters are either anthropomorphic animals or other strange creatures. The "dungeon" of the title is, in the original series, a business establishment run by a mild-mannered chicken, where heroes come in search of adventure and treasure and invariably die. The timeline in the main continuity is described as the stages of day; the series that lead up to the dungeo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delcourt (publisher)
Delcourt () is a French publishing, publishing house that specializes in comics and manga founded in 1986 through the fusion of the magazines ''Charlie Mensuel'' and ''Pilote''. Guy Delcourt, chief editor of the latter, named the new publishing house Guy Delcourt Productions. Delcourt is the third largest publisher of Franco-Belgian comics, behind Média-Participations and Glénat (publisher), Glénat, and produces some 480 comics a year. Publications Bandes Dessinées (Franco-Belgian comics) Delcourt * ''À l'Ombre de l'Échafaud'' (since 2001) * ''Aquablue'' (since 1988) * ''Amenophis IV'' (since 2000) * ''Asphodèle'' * '':fr:Angela (bande dessinée), Angela'' * ''Après la Nuit'' (since 2008) * '':fr:Baker Street (bande dessinée), Baker Street'' * ''List of artistic depictions of Beowulf#Graphic novels, Beowulf'' * ''Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis'' * ''Bienvenue en Chine'' * ''C.O.P.S.'' * ''Ceux qui rampent'' * ''Chasseurs de Dragons'' * ''Chronicles of The Dragon Knights'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christophe Blain
Christophe Blain (born 10 August 1970) is a French comic book author. Life and career Blain was born in Gennevilliers. He studied visual arts in Cherbourg and began drawing comics during his military service, first published by Albin Michel in 1994. He subsequently worked as an illustrator for various magazines before returning to drawing comics, inspired by David B., Lewis Trondheim and Joann Sfar. He created with David B. some stories that appeared in the magazine ''Lapin''. He began collaborating with Trondheim and Sfar in 1999 for the ''Dungeon'' series album ''Dungeon: Early Years''. He began his most successful series to date, ''Isaac the Pirate'', in 2001. In the story, set in the 18th century, Isaac Sofer, a penniless painter, becomes a pirate when he accepts a commission involving a rather involuntary sea crossing to America. The subsequent series, ''Gus'', is a Western comic that humorously recounts episodes from the life of Gus, a mail robber. With its exaggerated d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parody Comics
A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation. Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc), but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s counterculture). Literary scholar Professor Simon Dentith defines parody as "any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice". The literary theorist Linda Hutcheon said "parody ... is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text." Parody may be found in art or culture, including literature, music, theater, television and film, animation, and gaming. The writer and critic John Gross observes in his ''Oxford Book of Parodies'', that parody seems to flourish on territory somewhere between pastiche ("a composition in another artist's manner, without sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Comics Debuts
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The '' Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (''Very strong''). W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comics About Dragons
a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information. There is no consensus among theorists and historians on a definition of comics; some emphasize the combination of images and text, some sequentiality or other image relations, and others historical aspects such as mass reproduction or the use of recurring characters. Cartooning and other forms of illustration are the most common means of image-making in comics. Photo comics is a form that uses photographic images. Common forms include comic strips, editorial and gag cartoons, and comic books. Since the late 20th century, bound volumes such as graphic novels, and comic albums, have become increasingly common, along with webcomics as well as scientific/medical comics. The history of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tabletop Role-playing Game
A tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG or TRPG), also known as a pen-and-paper role-playing game, is a kind of role-playing game (RPG) in which the participants describe their characters' actions through speech and sometimes movements. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or fail according to a set role-playing game system, formal system of rules and guidelines, usually involving randomization (such as through dice). Within the rules, players have the freedom to improvisation, improvise, and their choices shape the direction and outcome of the game. Neither pen and paper nor a table are strictly necessary for a game to count as a TTRPG; rather, the terms ''pen-and-paper'' and ''tabletop'' are typically used to distinguish this format of RPG from role-playing video games or live action role-playing games. Online play of TTRPGs through videoconferencing has become common since the COVID-19 pandemic. Some common e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manu Larcenet
Emmanuel Larcenet, known as Manu Larcenet (born 6 May 1969) is a French cartoonist. He worked with Fluide Glacial magazine from 1995 to 2006 and with '' Spirou'' magazine from 1997 to 2004. He has also founded the French publisher Les Rêveurs in 1998. Since 2000, he mostly works with Dargaud. Biography Emmanuel Larcenet, also known as Manu Larcenet, was born in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He studied graphic art at the Sèvres lycée and then went on to art school. While spending time as a singer in a punk-rock band, he published his first drawings in comics and rock fanzines. In October 1994, he was published in the French magazine Fluide Glacial (issue #220) with ''L'Expert comptable de la jungle'', a first story rapidly followed by other complete ones, and republished later in comic books, in the series ''Soyons fous'', ''La Loi des séries'' and ''Bill Baroud''. Meanwhile, Larcenet was also actively working for Les rêveurs de rune. For this magazine and label ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boulet (comics)
Boulet, the pen name for Gilles Roussel (), is a French comic book creator and cartoonist born 1 February 1975 in Meaux, France. He was among the first French cartoonists to become famous by publishing a blog BD, starting in July 2004. Biography Roussel studied art at the Graduate School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg. In 2001, he published his first comic strip, '' Raghnarok''. He then started a cartoon blog on the internet in July 2004, which made him well known in France. Since then, he has worked for French comics strip magazine Tchô ! and Psikopat, and on many others as an author or cartoonist. He replaced Lewis Trondheim as cartoonist of the comic strip ''Donjon Zénith''. The popularity of his blog allowed him to become the first "Godfather" of the newly created Paris Comic Strip Blog Festival ( Festival des blogs BD), in 2005. The drawings from his blog were first published in 2008, entitled "Notes". Eleven volumes have been published as of November 2021. Roussel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
