FAILED AGAIN! I have no idea what the Futures of Comics will or could be like. And I’m not sure I want to. The exercise inevitably misses its target… But precisely: why…
Futures of Comics 2020
Transparency & Opacity
Ilan Manouach comes from comics, Franck Leibovici comes from poetry: two different artistic backgrounds, with their own histories and signifying potentials. Comics is considered a vernacular form of cultural expression, while poetry…
Narrating intimacy through cartography
Through her fanzines, Merieme Mesfioui is looking for new formal strategies to tell stories, to denounce. Cartography takes more and more place in his way of understanding the narration. Indeed, this tool…
From comics to painting through poetry
At the crossroads of genres, comics is a three-story narrative bus; text – image – combination. Long reduced to an object of entertaining consumption, the medium becomes a playground and experimental laboratory…
AI, machines, works without an identified author: new editorial perspectives?
AI, machines, works without an identified author: new editorial perspectives? Nothing is less sure ! From the experience of JBE Books in researching the most contemporary books (in the sense of a…
Imagier
Imagier is the duo’s new monographic book that presents drawings, collages images made in recent years. While historically, the Imagier is someone who produces images of all kinds, both murals or on…
Artist Talk
Bastien Vivès will discuss about his work and his latest publishing projects. The talk will be held in English through Skype. Let us know in advance if you would like translating assistance…
Censorship in Turkish Comics
The presentation will lay out the historical background of censorship towards Turkish comic magazines (Girgir, Mikrop, Limon, Leman, Pismis Kelle, Penguen and Uykusuz) from the early 70’s. I will start with the…
Against Comics
At first, Un Faulduo was a magazine. Then it became a world, the Faulduoworld. Now, it’s a magazine, a world and a group, which, for fifteen years, has tried to elucidate what’s…
Talking with others
For two hours we will start a dialogue with the other through drawings and texts. We will make a small fanzine that could be easy to copy and make an exchange with…