epuis quelques jours en kiosque, les inrockuptibles proposent leur classement des 100 bandes dessinées indispensables, à travers un numéro hors série vendu 6,90 €.

Si l’essentiel de la sélection fait la part belle à la BD d’avant-garde, on trouve des œuvres mainstream comme Hellboy, Donjon, Blake & Mortimer ou Spirou dans le haut du classement. Côté podium, Tintin et les Bijoux de la Castafiore occupent la troisième place, Maus d’Art Spiegelman la deuxième, alors que Jimmy Corrigan de Chris Ware est élu meilleur album de tous les temps par le magazine, ou plutôt par Joseph Ghosn, qui signe à lui seul trois quarts des chroniques du numéro.

Les Inrockuptibles picks out 100 top French comics
April 11th, 2008
Filed under: Graphic Novels, Comics and cartoons, From our Continental Correspondent � Wim @ 6:24 am
In its Hors Série collection Les Inrocks 2, French rock magazine Les Inrockuptibles (which is a bit like Mojo or Rolling Stone, only more, well, French) published a list of one hundred indispensable comics according to its undoubtedly very hip editors. The only reason why I didn’t write about this before is that, well, I only saw it at my newsagent’s this week, and it caught my eye because I had just been rereading the similar list that the Comics Journal compiled in 1999. What a nice idea for a cross-continent comparison!


In 1999, the Journal published a list that was profoundly and strictly American, save for a few lonely Brits and Canadians who published through US outlets. This limitation was intentional, as is confirmed by Tom Spurgeon’s introduction: rather than having a very arbitrary list without any focus or constant, the Journal’s contributors opted for a selection that they felt comfortable with, and that was closely linked with what the Journal itself stands for. The result is a list of vintage comic strips and panel gags, a few select issues of long-running comic books, quite a few “established” graphic novels and one or two very specific short stories (most notably Alan Moore’s Pictopia).

The oldest title on the list (Winsor Mc Cay’s Little Nemo) was first published in 1911, the youngest (Black Hole by Charles Burns) started publication in 1995 and was still ongoing at the time (1999). There is a slight tendency towards favouritism (quite a lot of work by the Hernandez Bros, Crumb, Moore and Spiegelman), while fanboy nostalgia is limited to “accepted” runs of mainstream comics (the Lee/Ditko run on Spider-Man or the Kirby/Lee Fantastic Four run). But all in all, a quite consistent, informative list, albeit limited in focus and stance, that at least introduced me to quite a few new names (I’d never heard of Al Hirschfeld before, and I only started actually appreciating Jim Woodring after reading Charles Hatfield’s short entry on Frank).

Les Inrockuptibles’ 100 BD Indispensables is amazingly different and still extraordinarily similar. The Inrocks team has limited itself to certain titles, books that are readily available in French. And since these days comics from all over the world are being translated, the list includes comics from France (obviously), but also Japan, Israel, the US, Canada, and indeed, Belgium. Classics, such as Tintin, Blueberry or Blake And Mortimer, feature side by side with hot new graphic novels (Satrapi, Tomine, Thompson), while all genres are equally present, from gag strips to adventure series to autobiographical novellas. There’s even a contingent of translated comics, with an obvious preference for Marvel.

All in all, the selection is a lot more varied and considerably less preconceived than the Comics Journal’s list. There is even an “also-ran” section of titles that seem to have been forgotten but merit renewed attention (Gaston Lagaffe, Barbe-Rouge, Tif Et Tondu), or have not been translated yet.

What’s most astounding about the Inrocks list, is the fact that nearly all the books on the list were published, either originally or in their current format, after 2000. Exactly half of the books were not even published when the Journal’s list was compiled, and of the other fifty percent roughly half were recently reissued in some format or other (most notably the classic Spider-Man, Batman and Superman runs that represent the ever growing amount of US comics present in the French market. It even leads to the French edition of Fletcher Hanks’ I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets being on this list, as well as Serge Clerc’s Le Journal, which was only published this year…

It is clear that the two lists each serve a different purpose. The Comics Journal aims at asserting it seriousness in studying comics, albeit only American ones (for the most part), as an art form and as a historical cultural phenomenon. The short profiles that accompany each entry on the list focus on the time when the comic in question was made, how it was ground breaking and what its intrinsic value is.

Les Inrocks, on the other hand, merely wants to help the casual reader of BD who wants something more, but is overwhelmed by the heaps of titles at his local Fnac. Although the profiles do situate the books in their period, they mostly try to give a general idea of the story, and why it’s indeed so indispensable. Les Inrocks 2, issue 25- 100 BD indispensables (January 2008), featuring a great cover by Charles Burs; price: about € 8.40.

Catalogue de la vente aux enchères de l'association DAL (Droit au Logement)
mars 2009

Vente de 220 lots d'originaux de Bande Dessinée
(Berberian, Bilal, Moebius, Guarnido, Juillard, Mézières, Petillon, Loustal, David B, Sattouf, Willem, Tardi, Geluck, Bravo, Munoz, etc...)

et de 114 Photographies
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Michelin Parlez-nous de lui Bibendum vu par…

Dès 1977, parallèlement à l'apprentissage de l'architecture, Loustal participe à Cyclone, le fanzine du lycée de Sèvres.

Loustal article 2 pages


Walter Minus article 2 pages

Thierry Groensteen
Broché: 280 pages
Editeur : Somogy - Collection d'Art (mai 2000)
Collection : Coédition Musée
Langue : Français
ISBN-10: 2850563897
ISBN-13: 978-2850563898


Descriptions du produit

À elle seule, la couverture du livre mérite qu'on s'y arrête. Autour de trois des plus fameuses héroïnes de la bande dessinée - Bécassine, Adèle Blanc-Sec et Barbarella - quelques-uns de leurs collègues de papier masculins se tiennent debout. Et pas des moindres, puisque l'on peut reconnaître, très dignes dans leurs smokings plutôt incongrus, Astérix, Gaston Lagaffe, Tintin, le Lucien de Margerin et le Philémon de Fred. À l'intérieur, une histoire de la bande dessinée d'expression française signée par Thierry Groensteen, directeur du musée de la BD d'Angoulême. Un récit chronologique pour mieux comprendre l'histoire d'un genre à travers ses héros et ses créateurs, ses enjeux économiques et sociaux, ses techniques et ses supports. Et puis, en regard de chaque page de texte, une véritable fête pour l'oeil de l'amateur : un choix de 120 planches originales issues de la collection du musée. De Caran d'Ache à Loustal, de Benjamin Rabier à Moebius, de Forton à Baudoin. Où l'on voit qu'une planche n'est pas seulement un outil de narration, mais aussi une œuvre d'art capable d'inciter à la rêverie, à la contemplation ou à la pure jubilation. --Gilbert Jacques



LOUSTAL
(Jacques DE LOUSTAL, dit), né en 1956

Chapitre VII : Vers une bande dessinée d'auteur
Barney et la note bleue, planche 28
Scénario Philippe Paringaux
" (A Suivre) " n° 95, décembre 1985. Album Casterman, 1987.
Encre de chine et aquarelle sur papier, 328 x 286 mm

Spécial AMATEURS

COUVERTURE
Par Marina Filipovic, Osijek, Croatie. Elle gagne un voyage au bout du monde pour deux personnes.

Cette année, les catégories sont introduites par des auteurs de Bande-dessinées

PORTRAIT
Chapeauté par Loustal.

 

Magazine ACTUEL, sept 1980
5 pages BD de Jaques de Loustal 
texte: Philippe Paringaux

Titre
DE LA MUSIQUE MODERNE
 

1980  Rock et Folk N°164
http://www.loustal.nl/museum451.htm