After more than fifty years in syndication, the Funky Winkerbean comic is coming to an end after its creator, Tom Batiuk, announced his end date. It was a staple of newspapers around the world, but after more than fifty years, Tom Batiuk’s Funky Winkerbean is coming to an end. Batiuk announced he would be retiring … Read more
“We arrived yesterday at Les Riches-Claires for our first day of rehearsal and we are in the middle of scouting the room for our entrances and exits from the stage, the technique… and even the coffee machine”smiles Nicole Stankiewicz, director of the Small World by Georges Dandin, according to Molière. A few days before the … Read more
An aberration, while we commemorate the Holocaust, on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz this Thursday. A school board in Tennessee, USA, banned the comic strip Maus, by Art Spiegelman, alerted the American journalist on Twitter on Wednesday Judd Legum. Considered a major work in the history of comics, this … Read more
– What is Bernard Minier’s new heroine worth? “Lucia” comes from Spain to replace Inspector Servan but also a ranking of the 100 best films of the 2010s and songs to discover Molière. What to discuss this weekend! Posted today at 7:33 p.m. Bernard Minier crosses the Pyrenees with “Lucia” Bernard Minier, with multiple interests … Read more
Third part of our interviews with the team of “The Batman”. This week, place only Matt Reeves who evokes the films and comic books which inspired him in a very long answer. “I immersed myself in depth in comic books”answers Matt Reeves when we ask him about the sources of inspiration for The Batman. “When … Read more
Periodically, Hollywood chooses to put its strange gaze on rarer works, less accessible than the usual formula of costumed heroes or independent “carrying” comics. This is for example the case of the comic strip Bloom County, a satirical strip, or more exactly, humorous, absurd and focused on social issues and a commentary on politics in … Read more
Banished to a Tennessee institution for vulgarity and pornography, the comic strip Maus by Art Spiegelman is today among the best sellers, 35 years after its release. Last weekend, two editions of Mausthe complete version from 1996 and the first volume from 1986, entered the Top 20 Best Sellers on Amazon, reported the Los Angeles … Read more
The banning of the graphic novel “Maus” in Tennessee schools for remarks deemed shocking had an unexpected positive effect: the flagship work on the Holocaust is now at the top of sales in the United States. A poignant Holocaust tale by cartoonist Art Spiegelman, “Maus” has been deemed “vulgar and inappropriate” for 13-year-old middle schoolers … Read more
A Tennessee school board has voted to remove the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel ‘Maus’ from an eighth-grade language arts curriculum due to concerns about profanity and an image of female nudity in its depiction of women. Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust. The Jan. 10 vote by the McMinn County School Board, which only began … Read more
The graphic novel is loaded with titles with highly contrasted themes, approaches and styles. A variety that confirms the vitality of the narrative in vignettes, with newcomer authors making their strong debut alongside established names. One of the last titles to hit bookstores is also one of the outstanding works of the year, it is … Read more