Daily Archives: 26 March 2007

Re: A Certain Tendency in French Comics

comics and cartooning, debateBy Matthias Wivel 26 March 2007

Comics critic Xavier Guilbert (of the excellent du9) responds to my recent critique of aspects of contemporary French cartooning, I answer him, and we have a conversation. Read on! Hello Matthias, I’ve read with much interest your latest note on the Metabunker blog, and while you make an interesting point, I beg to differ. As…

A Certain Tendency in French Comics

comics and cartooning, commentary and criticismBy Matthias Wivel 26 March 2007

Just read Christophe Blain’s latest comic, the western romance Gus. Beautifully drawn, well-told, cool 70s-style colouring, nice poetic mood, utterly unambitious. Blain is one of the most naturally graceful draughtsmen of current French-language comics and amongst the prime movers in what has been regarded as the revitalisation of the traditional album format over the last…