English books of Loustal

Jacques de Loustal


Jacques de Loustal (born April 10, 1956, in Neuilly-Sur-Seine) is a French comics artist who uses a painterly style reminiscent of David Hockney.

Jacques de Loustal is among the generation of new artists that helped reinvigorate the Ninth Art back in the 70's when he began to be recognized. Close to the Métal Hurlant school, he combined rock music and graphic art in the now classic album Barney and The Blue Note published in 1987 based on a story by Philippe Paringaux (Rock & Folk). He mixes an aesthetic based on the simple elegance of the firm lins inherited from the «ligne claire» with the novelty of direct colour. In combining shimmering, rich colours, he seems to draw his inspiration from the Nabis and Gauguin as well as from his many travels, recorded in notebooks that have also been published. In addition to his work in comics, Loustal has produced many illustrations for mainstream literature (Simenon, Mac Orlan, Vian) and the international press (The New Yorker'„ confirming his ability to musically speak with images with the fewest words possible.   Loustal illustration in The New Yorker. 

2016 The Boys of Sheriff Street 

The Boys of Sheriff Street (Dover Graphic Novels) Paperback – July 20, 2016 by Jerome Charyn (Author), Jacques de Loustal (illustrator)
With its moody, atmospheric images of New York City's underworld during the 1930s, this graphic novel conjures up the timeless allure of film noir. Twin brothers Max and Morris, rivals for the love of a savage beauty, conduct a gangland war amid the Lower East Side's tenements and wharfs. Features a new English translation by the author, "a contemporary American Balzac." — New York Newsday. Contains adult material.

Called "a contemporary American Balzac" by New York Newsday, Jerome Charyn is the author of thirty novels, three memoirs, eight graphic novels, and other acclaimed works. Two of his memoirs were named New York Times Book of the Year, he has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1983. Charyn has also received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has been named Commander of Arts and Letters (Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) by the French Minister of Culture.

Parisian Jacques de Loustal began his career as an illustrator of comic books in the late 1970s. His short comics appeared in the Franco-Belgian magazines Métal Hurlant, Pilote, Nitro, Chic, and Zoulou. Noted for a painterly style in the tradition of David Hockney, Loustal has contributed to the magazine À Suivre, for which he created Coeurs de Sable, Barney et la Note Bleue, Un Jeune Homme Romantique, and Kid Congo.

Product Details
Series: Dover Graphic Novels
Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (July 20, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0486807096
ISBN-13: 978-0486807096
ISBN 9780486807096

2001 What he expected of her 

What he expected of her by Jacques de Loustal
A collection of beautiful, atmospheric drawings by the famous French author Jacques de Loustal. Limited to 1,000. English text. (ISBN 90-5492-238)
English edition of this small coffeetable book, wich will show you Loustals vision of what a men can expect from a woman

Jacques de Loustal is one of the most popular French contemporary artists, and his influences lean more towards fine art than to comics: in this book his 0ne-page drawings (I hesitate to call them cartoons) have very real artistic merit, as well as insights into the human condition. This is an English

translation from the original French "Ce qu'il attendait d'elle". A hardcover book, 7 x 9 inches, about 64 pages, colour. Published by Oog & Blik of Amsterdam, 2001. ISBN 905492-23-8.

1996 Java in the Shadow of Merapi

Java in the Shadow of Merapi / Loustal ; text and interview Jean-Luc Coatalem ; [transl. from the French: Julie Harris]. - 1st ed. - Amsterdam : Publisher: Oog & Blik Oog & Blik, 1996. - [64] p. ; 31 cm Oorspr. Franse uitg.: Paris : Desbois, cop. April 1996 . ISBN 90-73221-46-3 (hardcover)

Invited to Indonesia by the French Institutes for several weeks to present his work in serigraphy, Loustal decided to transform his trip into a work which would combine sketches, watercolors, and paintings. In Java, in the jam-packed markets of Yogyakarta, he says his first strong image was one of two black monitor lizards fighting over a dead fish in a basin. He is also known for his Japanese exercises, drawn each morning of the Merapi volcano, Java's enfant terrible - the glowing clouds and gushing lava which transforms the landscape, the mood of the rice fields.

1990 New York, Miami

New York, Miami / [illustrated by] Jacques deLoustal ; [stories by] Philippe Paringaux ; translated by Elizabeth Bell. -- New York : Catalan Communications, 1990. -- 64 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm. [ out of print] $11.95, Adult Graphic novel. Oversize pictorial wrappers. Fine
ISBN: 0874160731
ISBN-13: 9780874160734

In this collection of short stories, the creators of LOVE SHOTS perform their jaded ventriloquy on a new assortment of American losers, and a few from other continents as well. From Death Row in the Mississippi Delta to New York's backstage groupie scene, the imagery shunts from eye-level subjective focus to the remorseless leer of the hidden camera. The lighting trips brusquely with each vignette, enveloping us in the indoor cloudiness of cheap hotel rooms, Africa's immemorial starlight, the incandescent ghetto. Illuminated by the glare is a portrait gallery of the used, the useless, the unchosen, the stooge, as the authors split the spectrum of human desolation. Often we find ourselves eavesdropping at the endpoint of some inevitability too dreary to be called fate: the moment our subject ,catches on.,, The spare text of inner emptiness contrasts painfully with the overwhelming visuals, resulting in a sort of high-decibel understatement that is the Loustal/Paringaux genius. ....comics of unusual literary artifice and sensitivity.. inventive and beautifully executed drawing styles...(Publishers Weekly)

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY:
In such previous collections as Love Shots, Loustal's illustrational gifts, in combination with Paringaux's fixation on lower-class squalor and upper-class decadence, produced a vision of America influenced by detective movies and crime journalism. The two Frenchmen again offer comics of unusual literary artifice and sensitivity with this new volume that continues to present oddly affecting extracts from the lives of their eccentric and convincing characters: the deluded rock groupie of "Miss Fan USA"; the mordantly witty-and stylishly rendered-sexual encounter of "The Question"; or the noirish male lovers of "Marcello" and their amusing and violent partnership. The drawing styles, inventive and beautifully executed, vary between stories, changing the mood of each. The collaborators' fascination with black American life, not always successfully utilized here, is best interpreted in "La Vie En Blues," where their ability to create lyrical period pieces captures both the blues sensibility and the gritty mythologies of 1940s urban black life. (May)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY/ APRIL 13, I990, Vol. 237 Issue 15, p60, 2p by Kaganoff, P.
Reviews the graphic novel `New York/Miami 90,' by P. Paringaux, translated by E. Bell, illustrated by J. Loustal. ISSN:0000-0019

1988 Barney and the Blue Note

Barney and the Blue Note / Loustal-Paringaux ; translated by Frieda Leia Jacobowitz translation edited by Kim Thompson. -- Rijperman; distribution, Fantagraphics Books,1988. -- 86 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm. (out of print) isbn 907211812X
"Barney and the Blue Note - a new landmark in the art of the comic strip"
Loustal-Paringaux presents an underground graphic novel with the usual bigtown stuff - Jazz, women, and cars. 87 pages in color illustration. Soft cover book.
By the late 1980s the masterworks of both European and Japanese crime comics had begun to be published in the USA by Catalan Communications in New York City, (no longer in business, alas). It was Catalan first, and later Fantagraphics of Seattle, who would provide an American audience with the graphic novels of Munoz and Sampayo. It would be Catalan as well who would first publish the two most gorgeous color artists in the history of noir comics, the Frenchman, Jacques Loustal, and the Italian, Lorenzo Mattoti. Loustal's Love Shots, and Mattoti's Fires are two authentic masterworks of the postmodern noir comics movement.

1988 Hearts of Sand 

Hearts of Sand / Loustal & Paringaux ; transl. [from the French] by Elizabeth Bell ; [ed. by Bernd Metz]. - New York : Catalan, 1991. - 64 p. : gekleurde ill. ; 30 cm Trans.: Coeurs de sable. - Tournai : Casterman, 1985.
ISBN 0-874161347
ISBN-13: 9780874161342
$13.95.

Publishers Weekly:
Paringaux and de Loustal ( Love Shots ) are neatly matched collaborators. The interconnections between words and pictures are so well established that it is impossible to just look at the images or read the text. De Loustal draws in the tradition of early 20th-century European artists, de Chirico and Picasso in particular. Paringaux's story recalls modernist French cinema: lots of smoking, sweating and sex, and against the clear-cut happy-ending tradition (not to mention the heterosexual tradition) many Americans are accustomed to in popular fiction. The story involves an American tennis player named Baby and three people who are attracted to her: her German chaperone, Eva; a French soldier named Robert; and an Arab who kidnaps Baby out of love. Baby spends the bulk of the story being passive while others take control of her actions. Eva and Robert appear to be stereotypes--she, the classic lesbian bitch, he, the brave male hero--but Paringaux turns the images on their ear. Eva receives no comeuppance for not being a ``proper'' woman, and Robert is an ineffectual drunkard with delusions of chivalry. A fine work from two prime French talents. (May)
Publishers Weekly, 3/22/91, Vol. 238 Issue 14, p76, 1/6p by Kaganoff, P.Reviews the novel `Hearts of Sand,` by Philippe Paringuax, illustrated by Jacques de Loustal. ISSN: 0000-0019

Library Journal:
Paringaux's scripts combine the best elements of French modernist literature and film, and de Loustal unites Giorgio de Chirico's reverberating emptiness and Picassoesque faces. This story-involving a cosmopolitan cast and a bizarre love triangle-ridicules romance/adventure conventions with deep character insights: (Their other work includes Love Shots and Barney d the Blue Note.)
Library Journal, 6/1/91, Vol. 116 Issue 10, p134, 1p, 2 bw by DeCandido, K.R.A.
Reviews several comic books which are becoming a mainstream presence in popular culture. Includes `The Complete Crumb Comics,' by R. Crumb; `Love That Bunch,' by Aline Kominsky-Crumb; `Hearts of Sand,' by Philippe Paringaux and Jacques de Loustal; ISSN 0363-0277

1988 Love Shots


Philippe Paringaux (stories), Bernd Metz (Editor), Illustrated by Jacques de Loustal Format: Paperback, 62pp.
8 1/2 x 11 inches large format
Publisher: Catalan Communications
Pub. Date: November 1988
Translated from the original French "Clichés d'amour" by Elizabeth Bell
ISBN: 0874160596
ISBN-13: 9780874160598

From Publisher's Weekly:
The French authors meld a European sensibility, drenched in the estheticized introspection of the outcast, with the violent and gaudy archetypes embodied in American film noir classics. Hollywood stars, gangsters, boxing and the Louisiana delta figure prominently here. Through the use of memory fragments, these stories delineate some ironic triumph that ultimately diminishes and alienates the characters. The loosely rendered, richly colored, epiphanic drawings are placed above the text sans word balloons. Impressive watercolor-and-pen work captures the brooding darkness of a northern black pugilist in a
southern racist town (``The White Woman'') as well as the garishness of a murder as stark as the brilliantly lit desert in which it takes place (``New Mexico''). The best story of this admirable collection, ``Night of the Alligator,'' displays the collaborators' ability to reinvigorate American gangster mythology with lush, romantic visuals while devaluing the glamour of those archetypes through the very savagery and moral degradation that such myths often serve to conceal. (Nov.)

Love Shots is a moody, Polaroid-postcard style valentine to an America of Forties and Fifties movie myth and literary legend. The stories capture ironic snapshots of misfits and outcasts, spanning the wide land as it bares the depths of its inhabitants' wounded souls. A uniquely American vision from two frechmen.

ebay.com (sept. 2002)
Painted color interior. Beautifully drawn and painted art!
A moody, Polaroid post-card style valentine to an America of Forties and Fifties movie myth and literary legend. The stories capture ironic snapshots of misfits and outcasts...A unique American vision from...two Frenchmen. Contains some adult concepts and mild drawn nudity....  

All couvertures & illustrations
The New Yorker

Jacques de Loustal / 1993 - 2013 / 2020

Loustal in Heavy Metal US Magazine 

Heavy Metal is an American science fiction and fantasy comics magazine, known primarily for its blend of dark fantasy/science fiction and erotica. In the mid-1970s, while publisher Leonard Mogel was in Paris to jump-start the French edition of National Lampoon, he discovered the French science-fantasy magazine Métal Hurlant which had debuted January 1975. The French title translates literally as "Howling Metal". When Mogel licensed the American version, he chose to rename it, and Heavy Metal began in the U.S. in April 1977 as a glossy, full-color monthly. Initially, it displayed translations of graphic stories originally published in Métal Hurlant, including work by Enki Bilal, Philippe Caza, Guido Crepax, Philippe Druillet, Jean-Claude Forest, Jean Giraud (aka Moebius) and Milo Manara. The magazine later ran Stefano Tamburini and Tanino Liberatore's ultra-violent RanXerox. Since the color pages had already been shot in France, the budget to reproduce them in the U.S. version was greatly reduced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Metal_(magazine)

1982 Heavy Metal January - Vol. 5 No. 10

January - Vol. 5 No. 10
Cover - "Clone O' My Heart" - Rod Walotsky
p.02-03 - "Illustration" - Mark America
p.04 - "Editorial" - Brad Balfour and Dean Chamberlain
p.05 - "Chain Mail"
p.06 - "Shakespeare For Americans: Storyboard For 60-Second Othello Spot.: HMTV" - Howard Victor Chaykin, Walter Simonson, William Shakespeare, and George Simon Kaufman
p.08-11 - "The Mercenary" - Vicente Segrelles
p.14-24 - "Outland" - Jim Steranko
p.25-28 - "At The Middle Of Cymbiola" - François Schuiten and Claude Renard
p.29-32 - "Toward A New Day" - Philippe Druillet
p.33 - "Happy Future: A Glimpse Of Things To Come" - Gregory Manchess
p.34 - "Happy Future: Autonomous Man" - Brad Balfour and Michael Gross
p.35-36 - "Happy Future: Confessions Of A Video Addict" - Daphne Davis and Michael Gross
p.36-37 - "Happy Future: Technological Commitments" - Lance Chudnow and Michael Gross
p.38-43 - "Happy Future: Romeo And Juliet" - Maximy and Arnaud "Arno" Dombre
p.44-49 - "Happy Future: The Sand Man" - Jacques De Loustal and Philippe H. Paringaux
p.50-54 - "Happy Future: Moby Dick" - Alain Voss
p.55-61 - "Happy Future: Trinitromonol Saved Our Love" - Dominique Hé
p.62-73 - "Happy Future: Mademoiselle, My Wife!" - Paul Gillon
p.74 - "Work And Win" - Steve Stiles
p.76-79 - "Den II" - Richard Corben
p.81-83 - "Mars Attacks!: Death And Bubble Gum From Above" - Lou Stathis and Rick Lovelace
p.86 - "I'm Age" - Jeff Jones
p.87 - "Dossier: New Musics: Walkman Terror Tales" - Lou Stathis and Steve Stiles
p.88 - "Dossier: Inter-Videous" - Alan D. Hecht
p.88 - "Dossier: Fabric Fantasy" - John Shirley
p.89 - "Dossier: Left My Art In San Francisco" - Brad Balfour and James Stark
p.89 - "Dossier: Hot Time" - Timothy R. Lucas
p.90 - "Dossier: Oh You Kid!" - Julie Simmons-Lynch
p.90 - "Dossier: Publishing Peril" - Norman Spinrad
p.90 - "Dossier: City Stomp" - Steven Maloff
p.92-95 - "Rock Opera" - Rod "Cordoba" Kierkegaard Jr.
p.96 - "The Bus" - Paul Kirchner
p.96 - "What To Expect In February..."
Back Cover - "The Heavy Metal Man" - Michael Gross

1983 Even Heavier Metal

p.03 - "Foreward" - Julie Simmons-Lynch
p.04-19 - "Between Shadow And Light" - Jean "Jéronaton" Torton
p.20-23 - "Artifact" - Jean "Mœbius" Giraud
p.24-29 - "Under The Sign Of Taurus The Bull" - Gillon
p.30-31 - "Studebaker" - Keaton Sheffield and Robert Ridgeway
p.32-41 - "Fluke O' The Nukes" - Jon Alderfer
p.42-51 - "Axolotls" - Philippe "Caza" Cazamayou
p.52-69 - "The Night Of The Alligator" - Jacques De Loustal
p.70-83 - "Pinky Warner And The Virgin Seekers!" - Alain Voss
p.84-91 - "For One Quarter" - Jimino
p.92-95 - "Love Ain't Nothin' But Evol Spelled Backwards" - Gaetano "Tanino" Liberatore
Back Cover - John Workman, Alain Voss, Jean "Mœbius" Giraud, Gaetano "Tanino" Liberatore, Philippe "Caza" Cazamayou, and Jean "Jéronaton" Torton

1977 Heavy Metal Magazine, november

November 1997 - Vol. 21 No. 5

Cover - Gaetano "Tanino" Liberatore
p.03 - "Heavy Metal" - Kevin Eastman
p.03 - "Dialogue: Letters To The Editor"
p.05-10 - "Gallery: Spies, Thighs, Bikinis, And Ballistics" - Andy Sidaris and Arlene Sidaris
p.14-15 - "Dossier: Jeffrey Goldsmith Interviews Richard Corben"
p.19-32 - "Ranx 3: Amen!" - Gaetano "Tanino" Liberatore, Stefano Tamburini, and Alain Chabat
p.33-55, 90-120 - "Gypsy: Siberian Fires" - Enrico Marini and Thierry Smolderen
p.58-66 - "Mort À Outrance: The Killer" - Guillaume Sorel and Thomas Mosdi
p.68-71 - "Mondovision" - Enki Bilal
p.74-75 - "No Man's Land" - Jacques De Loustal
p.77-88 - "The Legion Of The Waterproof: Casino" - Željko Pahek

extra index: https://web.archive.org/web/20090226195746/http://helsinki.fi/~lakoma/comics/heavy_metal.html

1993 COULEUR DIRECTE

Édition en 3 langues : français, allemand, anglais.
- Chef d'oeuvres de la nouvelle bande dessinée Française
- Meisterwerke des neuen franzosischen Comics
- Masterpieces of the new French Comics
Catalogue de l'exposition du même nom au salon international de Hambourg en mai 1993. Articles de Didier Moulin, Thierry Groensteen, Gilbert Lascault et Patrick Gaumer.
ISBN 3-923102-86-0

COULEUR DIRECTE Ausstellungs- Katalog zum 1. Internationalen Comic Salon Hamburg 27.05- 30.05.1993. Meisterwerke des neuen französischen Comics mit Bildern und Bio- Bibliographie von Alex Barbier, Edmond Baudoin; Beb-Deum, Philippe Bertrand, Frederic Bezian, Enki Bilal, Max Cabanes, Jean-Claude Claeys, Nicolas De Crecy, Michel Crespin, Jean-Claude Denis, Didier Eberon,Dominique Gelli, Annie Goetzinger, Jean-Claude Gotting, Emmanuel Guibert, Joly Guth, Rene Hausman, Loustal, Moebius, Joel Mouclier, Jean-Michel Nicollet, Francois Schuiten, Jacques Tardi, Stefan Thanneur, Alex Varenne, Vink.

Les ciutats illustrades Illustrated Cities

Les ciutats illustrades : [exposició] / Loustal ... [et al.], Barcelona : Centre de Cultura Contemporània : Destino, D.L. , 1994 ,151 p. : il. col. y n. ; 21 x 21 cm ,
Notes: Texto en catalán, castellano, inglés y francés 
Illustrated Cities

Selection of contemporary works by eight illustrators taking the city as their theme: Ever Meulen, Kiki Picasso, Joost Swarte, George Hardie, Peret, Mariscal, Lorenzo Mattotti, Loustal. Texts by the illustrators.
151 pages, 21 x 21 cm, 85 illustrations in colour
Catalan-Spanish-French-English
1,600 ptas. (special offer)
ISBN:84-233-2123-1
ISBN: 8423321231
ISBN: 9788423321230.
24 d’octubre de 1994 al 8 de gener de 1995
16 ill. Loustal (Sous La lumière froide, V comme engeance, 50.000 dinars)

1995 The Narrative Corpse

The Narrative Corpse : a chain-story by 69 artists!, : Raw Books/Gates of Heck , 1995, edited by Art Spiegelman & R. Sikoryak, : 9"x16.5", 18 pages of "story", 3-color printing deluxe.- $25.00

NARRATIVE CORPSE comic, a limited edition RAW book published by Gates of Heck. Created by just about every name in alternative comics (see list below), and limited to 9500 copies.
69 comix artists from all over the world contributed to this comix version of the surrealist game of the same name. The first artist began the story with three comic-book panels, starring an innocent stick-figure named "Sticky." This artist passes his three panels on to the next artist who continued the story in any manner he wanted with three more panels. The next artist received only this artists' part of the story, and so on. The result is this legendary mixed-up spaced out narrative.


Some of the greatest comix artists of this century, including R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman. Loustal and Dabiel Clowes.and here is the list of all the artists!
Max Andersson, Peter Bagge, Lynda Barry, Mark Beyer, Chester Brown, M.K. Brown, Charles Burns, Max Cabanes, Daniel Clowes, Paul Corio, R. Crumb, Georgeanne Deen, Kim Deitch, Julie Doucet, Pascal Doury, Debbie Drechsler, Will Eisner, Mary Fleener, Drew Friedman, Scott Gillis, Justin Green, Bill Griffith, Matt Groening, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Kamagurka and Herr Seele, Ben Katchor, Kaz, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Krystyne Kryttre, Mark Landman, Carol Lay, Gary Leib, Jacques Loustal, Jason Lutes, Jay Lynch,Mariscal, Lorenzo Mattotti, David Mazzucchelli, Scott McCloud, Richard McGuire, Ever Meulen, Jose Munoz, Thomas Ott, Gary Panter, J. Pirinen, Jayr Pulga, Bruno Richard, Jonathon Rosen, Joe Sacco, Richard Sala, David Sandlin, Savage Pencil, Gilbert Shelton, R. Sikoryak, Spain, Art Spiegelman, Carol Swain, Joost Swarte, Carol Tyler, Typex, Mort Walker, Chris Ware, G. Wasco, Willem, S. Clay Wilson, Jim Woodring, Mark Zingarelli

2001 Strange Stories for Strange Kids (Little Lit, Book 2)

Paul Auster (text) and Jacques de Loustal (ill) The Day I Disappeared, p. 55 -62 

From the Publisher
The second groundbreaking anthology from the New York Times best-selling team of Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly is here! The everyday world is turned upside down and the ordinary becomes extraordinary in this collection of the strangest tales. From Art Spiegelman's "The Several Lives of Selby Sheldrake" to Maurice Sendak's "Cereal Baby Keller" to Jules Feiffer's "Trapped in a Comic Book," these stories are sure to entice any young reader. Also included are comics and features by Ian Falconer and David Sedaris, Paul Auster and Jacques de Loustal, Crockett Johnson, Richard MGuire, and Barbara McClintock, a puzzle by Lewis Trondheim, and make-your-own comic-book endpapers from Kaz, Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids continues the tradition of bring the pleasure of books and reading into the hands and minds of kids.
more:
https://www.loustal.nl/museum484.htm

1989 RAW Volume 2 

RAW Volume 2 No.1 Published in 1989 by Penguin Books, Color and B&W, 202 pages, 16.5x23 cm, square bound book
ISBN: 0-14-012265-6
Out of print

Edited by Art Spiegelman & Francois Mouly with contributions from ... Gary Panter, Ever Moulen, Charles Burns, Art Spiegelman, Justin Green, Drew Friedman & Mark Newgarden, Joost Swarte, Kax, Mark Beyer, Kamagurka & Herr Seele, Tom DeHaven, David Holzman, R Sikoryak, Kim Deitch, Richard McGuire, Jacques de Loustal (story Bulimic : designed by Loustal/ Text by Villard (Bulimic).- p 75-82) , Krystine Kryttre.
Bulimic : designed by Loustal/ Text by Villard (Bulimic).- p 75-82

1991 Raw Vol. 2 No. 3

Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1991
Format: Color and B&W, 228 pages, 16.5x23 cm, squarebound book
ISBN: 0-14-012282-6
Out of print

Other artists featured includes Jacques de Loustal, Ben Katchor, Kaz, George Herriman, Muñoz & Sampayo, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, R. Sikoryak, Richard Sala, Art Spiegelman, Joost Swarte, Justin Green, Gary Panter, Mark Beyer, Alan Moore, Lynda Barry, Krystine Kryttre,

Cover: Robert Crumb

1994 Drawn & Quarterly vol. 2 issue # 2

Edited by Chris Oliveros, Writers: Fromental, David Mazzucchelli, Jacques Tardi, Maurice Vellekoop
Artist: Jacques Loustal, David Mazzucchelli, Jacques Tardi, Maurice Vellekoop
David Mazzucchelli gives a somber account of an American traveller's unsettling experience in a run-down Paris hotel in "Rates of Exchange" (16 pages, b/w); "The Ghost of Whitechapel" (10 pages, full-color), is Loustal's lavishly-illustrated yarn about debonair semi-sophisticate Morel Cox's adventures in 1940's Europe; A new chapter of "It Was The War of The Trenches" (14 pages, b/w), by Jacques Tardi, is featured here; Separating these stories are two short strips: "More Than Coincidence" (2 pages, b/w), by Maurice Vellekoop and "Eleanor" (1 page, full-color), by Eric Drooker. Covers and endpapers by David Mazzucchelli. 48 pages. First printing.
Pages/Color: 56 black and white (some color)
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Publication date: December 1994.
$ 5.95 U.S.
http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/

1994 Drawn & Quarterly vol. 2 issue # 2

Reviewed by Matt Madden, “Comics Library,” TCJ #179
The Ghost of Whitechapel Story by Fromental, Art by Loustal
An adaptation of the story by Marel Cox, this is a dark little tale of lives gone to desperation. More Than Coincidence?
Drawn & Quarterly Volume 2, #2 builds on the promise of the first issue, offering more Tardi, adding Jacques Loustal, another giant of European comics, and presenting a lengthy new story by David Mazzucchelli. As it so happens, the impact of each piece in the new issue seems to be closely related to its length: Eric Drooker’s one-pager and Maurice Vellekoop’s two-pager are certainly the least impressive works on display. Drooker’s six panel slice-of-life is overburdened by clichéd images of nurturing — the old woman watering plants, feeding cats and birds — which are then bluntly contrasted with the loneliness and horror (the tell-tale tattoo on her arm) of her own existence. While Vellekoop uses an interesting device of having his comic read in two ways — simultaneously as a regular comic narrative and as two parallel storylines — he fails to develop it in any interesting direction, opting instead for random permutations of his usual themes of sex, opera, and camp.

Loustal and Fromental’s “The Ghost of Whitechapel” is a brilliant and sordid tale of decadence set in mid-century Europe. Playboy Morel Cox finds himself ducking into a London toy store late one night while fleeing a bunch of thugs. Once inside, he finds himself being led to a dingy basement projection room, where a grainy amateur porn reel sets into motion a series of devastating revelations. This pure pulp tale of random karma is perfectly matched to Loustal’s sensual line, his full-bodied figures, and his mixture of earth tones and primary colors. Loustal almost manages to tell the story with colors alone: the alluring, overripe, amber glow of the toy store window; the dilapidated brick of the stairs down to the makeshift porn theater; the cool gray-green and black and white of the screening room —suggesting the dingy haze of long-suppressed memories; and finally Cox’s fiery red shock of hair in the last panel.

If the comic has a weakness, it lies in an over-reliance on narration. Madame Topfer’s recounting of her misfortunes is the most static part of the comic. Still, Fromental’s text, as translated by Helge Dascher, is full of wry humor and pulp hyperbole; I think any dime-novel writer would be proud to have penned a line such as the one Mrs. Topfer utters when she describes having fled Europe by boat only to find that “unfortunately evil floats better than mercy!”

Like the best pulp fiction, “The Ghost of Whitechapel” manages to transcend its genre boundaries via the visceral knot in the stomach it provokes through Cox’s unexpected predicament. Behind the sleaziness of the affairs detailed in this comic lies a deeper, existential uneasiness about our helplessness in the face of chance and fate: How often do choices we make at random — being in a certain city on a certain night, entering an inconspicuous toy store — end up having a profound effect on our lives?

Jacques Tardi presents another installment of his World War I series, “It Was the War of the Trenches,” which was drawn throughout the ’80s. Another powerful story from this series kicked off the first issue of Volume 2, and I hope that an English-language paperback edition will be in the works down the road. Though I have not read the original French version, the translation of this story struck me as awkward at times, and at some points the dialogue even seemed to run out of sequence (i.e. page 38).

1991 The New Comics Anthology

The New Comics Anthology
Edited by Bob Callahan
Paperback: 287 pages ;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x 11.25 x 8.75
Publisher: Collier Books; (August 1991)
ISBN: 0020093616
Gathers selections from avant-garde graphic literature by more than seventy-five artists.
A compilation of works by more than 70 artists over five catergories including; Ye Olde Vaudeville Days; Daniel Clowes,JR Williams,Joe Matt,Peter Bagge,Matt Groening,Howard Cruse,Chris Ware,Lloyd Dangle,Mariscal,Ed Pinsent,Mokeit,Jim Woodring, Hunt Emerson, Rick Geary, Masse, Drew Friedman, Robert Sikoryak, Kim Deitch,Bill Griffith, Art Spiegelman.
The New Punk Funnies; S. Clay Wilson, Rory Hayes, Mark Beyer, Krystine Kryttre, Kaz, Bruce Hilvitz,Julie Doucet, Paquito Bolino,Michael Roden, Roy Tompkins,Y5P5, Mary Fleener, Jim Shaw,Maruo Suehiro, Peter Kuper,Mack White, Paul Mavrides, Pascal Doury, Bruno Richard, Gary Panter
Living Colours; Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard Sala, Lynda Barry, Robert Williams, Charles Burns, Jacques de Loustal, David Sandlin
Tales Of Politics And Crime; The Pleece Brothers, Joe Sacco, Willem, Cliff Harper, Dan O'Neil, Spain, Mark Zingarelli, Dougan & Einchhorn, Munoz&Sampayo, Marti, Colin Upton, Marc Caro, Tardi&Grange.
The Forthcoming American Splendour: Will Eisner, Aline Kominsky, Justin Green, Lee Marrs, Carol Lay, Gilbert Hernandez,Carol Tyler, Mario Hernandez, Jayr Pulga, BenKatchor, Eddie Campbell, Dori Seda,Diane Noomin, Joost Swarte, Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar

1992 The Comics Journal, no. 149 (Mar. 1992) -

THE COMICS JOURNAL #149
Front Cover Art: R. Crumb, Jack Davis
Panels: from L.A. Hernandez Brothers, Dan Clowes, Matt Groening, Burne Hogarth, Paul Mavrides, Jim Woodring, Mary Fleener,Gary Groth; from NY's pen Art Spiegelman, Maurice Horn, Jules Feiffer, Jacques de Loustal, Jerome Charyn & Robert Hughes Features & Articles: State Of The Industry 1992

The Comics Journal is the zine that grew alongside the start
of the era of comic shops, chronicling the changing artform, artists and writers, retail stores, comic companies, squabbles (& the victims of wrath each issue), interviews & reviews, publishers... The letters to the editor, aptly called "Blood And Thunder", yield history in the making as well as reaching back decades with all manner of corrections and explanatory missives "to set the record straight"; it may be a writer from the 30s or one who has just discovered the wonders of this medium. The history of modern comics can be found in these pages as it happened. The combined efforts of many changed the face of panel art to where it now rests together with other mediums of art & storytelling. Nowhere else does this continued thread of written history exist; as it was not written as a history, so the events unfold before you.

Discussion Panel: Bande Dessinée" / edited by Scott
Nybakken. p. 66-80 in The Comics Journal, no. 149 (Mar.
1992) -- Panel with Art Spiegelman, Jerome Charyn, Jacques
de Loustal, Robert Hughes, and Maurice Horn, with Jules
Feiffer from the audience, introduced by Marcel Gutwirth
and Annie Cohen-Solal.

Titel: Comic-Interviews : Untertitel: gezeichnete Interviews


O/A COMICS JOURNAL #149 Ah, yes. The 90's — a time of hope and a time of dashed dreams. In this special issue, cartoonists of all kinds – from legends to today's cutting-edge creators – speak their minds about the potential (and pitfalls) of the comic artform! Two complete panels (Seattle's "Comics Art in the '90s and New York's "Bande Dessinee" Conference) let you get inside the heads of Daniel Clowes, Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Peter Bagge, Jules Feiffer, Jacques De Loustal, Burne Hogarth, Jim Woodring, Paul Mavrides, comic historian Maurice Horn, Time art critic Robert Hughes, novelist/cartoonist Jerome Charyn, and Los Bros. Hernandez. Also, Peter Bagge offers an after-the-fact commentary on the turbulent "Comic Art in the '90s" panel! This, plus the Journal's always-dependable news coverage, offers a well-rounded picture of the fascinating world of comics! MATURE READERS Magazine, 112 pg $3.95

 

Author: Konrad Eyeferth

Publisher: Zwerchfell

Published: 1998

55 p., :ill. ; black/white. - 22 x 29,5 cm

ISBN: 3-928387-18-0

Novum Gebrauchsgraphik


Journal Info: Novum Gebrauchsgraphik. 
MAY 01 1995 v 66 n 5 8 

Jacques de Loustal is a comics artist.  But he's no freak. His comics are not even comical; often he even dispenses with balloons

Jacques de Loustal is a painter. But he's no elitist. He is one of the most prominent representatives of that trend they cad the >French author comics< and which is nourished from special sources: in the story, from the European narrative tradition and in the line, from the famous Ligne claire school of the Grand Old Master Hergé 

To an outsider, the astounding differentiation in the international comics markets may be new -American super-heroes beside respectable caricaturists, entertaining cartoons and obstreperous underground products, more recently the wild Japanese mangas ... In contrast, Loustal relates picture stories for completely normal, sensitive viewers and readers. His visual novels owe much to the French film: slowly unfolding plots, a poetic rhythm, magic moments, intensely emotional scenes in melancholy settings

Along with his dear, strong line goes an iconography all his own: quiet palms, empty beaches, motionless lizards, muteless fish the eloquent silence of the pictures. Loustal draws a world full of cryptic messages that are nevertheless well-known to the subconscious, a world full of tropical melancholy, the charm of the >off-season< (as he entitled one of his albums), when the summer's avidity has spent itself. Other typical settings are that dusty blues-jazz-dream America as it fives in the hearts of certain Europeans. or an only too recognizable fictive Mediterranean fairytale principality with its poor rich princely children.

Above all his pictures of women have made Loustal famous. Far away from all comiclike exaggerations, he shows us his mysterious Goddesses of the Everyday, at peace with themselves. In his stories, even young girls have their past they bear the knowledge and the burdens of past generations of women.

Jacques de Loustal is a pro. Cleverly he plays with the seductive powers of age old clichés, to which he unexpectedly restores their always valid truths.

And, not least, Jacques Loustal is extremely successful. In France he is a star of that special art scene which, for example, clusters around the Galerie Escale in Paris. The gallery owner, Christian Desbois, who is also a publisher, enjoys an enthusiastic public of collectors that also honors the most extraordinary ideas. So a sort of cardboard box was produced in the tiny format of a cigarette box with silk-screening on hand-made paper in a limited and signed edition a remininesce of the photo cassettes on the tea tables of fine ladies at the turn of the century a product truly tailored for a community of fans. Price: 480 francs; title: >80% humidity.<

Loustal's works are brought out in German by the publishing company, Schreiber & Leser, Munich. An album was published in Hamburg by the Carlsen Verlag. One of the firms from which print graphics and portfolios can be ordered is X fur U, Freiburg.

Rossi Schreffier